Continental Resources Names Stephen G. Bradley to Position of Vice President, Oil...

Continental Resources Names Stephen G. Bradley to Position of Vice President,
Oil Marketing

ENID, Okla., March 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Continental Resources,
Inc. (NYSE: CLR) today announced the appointment of Stephen G. Bradley to
serve as Vice President of Oil Marketing for the Oklahoma-based oil and gas
exploration and production company.
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Mr. Bradley comes to Continental with more than three decades of
experience in energy company management and commodities trading. Most recently
he served as manager of Commercial Operations and Business Development for
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. At Plains, Mr. Bradley was responsible for
commercial operations of the company's pipeline systems in the Rocky
Mountains, Kansas, Oklahoma, East Texas and North Louisiana. These pipeline
systems shipped an average of 200,000 barrels per day of crude oil to multiple
markets in 2007.
Prior to his work with Plains All American Pipeline, Mr. Bradley served as
manager of Crude Oil Purchasing for Rocky Mountains Link Energy and as a
consultant to Williams Energy Group MLP and to TEPPCO Crude Oil.
Prior to his service with TEPPCO, he served in various management,
business development and analyst positions with Equilon Enterprises LLC,
Texaco Trading and Transportation, Inc., Getty Oil and Skelly Oil Company.
"Continental has more than doubled its oil and gas production since 2004,
driven primarily by accelerated crude oil production in Montana, North Dakota
and South Dakota," said Harold Hamm, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "We
expect continued strong growth in oil production this year and beyond, and
Steve will play a central role in maximizing its value as we develop further
our operations in the Rocky Mountains, the Mid-Continental U.S. and the Gulf
Coast."
Mr. Bradley is a 1975 graduate of Oklahoma State University and has
completed graduate course work at the University of Tulsa and the University
of Colorado at Denver.
Continental Resources is a crude-oil concentrated, independent oil and
natural gas exploration and production company with operations in the Rocky
Mountain, Mid-Continent and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. The
Company focuses its operations in large new and developing plays where
horizontal drilling, advanced fracture stimulation and enhanced recovery
technologies provide the means to economically develop and produce oil and
natural gas reserves from unconventional formations. Continental reported
total revenue of $582.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2007 and
year-end total reserves of 134.6 million barrels of crude oil equivalent,
which consisted of 77 percent oil and 23 percent natural gas.
CONTACT: Continental Resources, Inc.
J. Warren Henry 580-548-5127
ir@contres.com

SOURCE Continental Resources, Inc.

J. Warren Henry of Continental Resources, Inc., +1-580-548-5127,
ir@contres.com