Chord Energy (NASDAQ: CHRD ), which resulted from the merger of Bakken producers Whiting Petroleum and Oasis Petroleum, subsequently bought Bakken assets from Exxon Mobil ( XOM ). Last year it acquired Enerplus for $3.8 billion, which also had significant US BakkenLaura Starks is the founder and CEO of Starks Energy Economics, LLC (since 2007). She has a degree in chemical engineering and an MBA with a concentration in finance which she has used for many years to invest personally and to share her ideas abo ...