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Chevron: contacts and Bakken history

Public contact details for Chevron, ranked #5 among North Dakota oil producers in the DMR's October 2026 Director's Cut (26.56 million bbl (9.6%)), followed by a sourced history of its North Dakota operations. Contact details last checked Sunday, October 25, 2026.

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Chevron / Hess

DMR rank #5 · 26.56 million bbl (9.6%)

Chevron (Hess Bakken Investments II)

Owner Relations

Hess Bakken properties are now part of Chevron. The Hess owner relations site remains the public owner contact; no separate division order contact is published there.

Source: ownerrelations.hess.com, as published by the company. Contact details last checked Sunday, October 25, 2026. Contact details can change; confirm with the operator before sending sensitive documents.

History in North Dakota and the Bakken

Written by Fort Union from the public sources listed below; bracketed numbers refer to that list.

An Amerada heritage in North Dakota

North Dakota's first producing oil well was an Amerada Petroleum Corporation well in Williams County near Tioga. It was spudded on September 3, 1950 and, according to the North Dakota Geological Survey, was completed as a producer on April 4, 1951; it was the discovery well of the Beaver Lodge field [1][2]. Amerada and Hess Oil and Chemical announced a merger in December 1968; the combined company later became Amerada Hess and then Hess Corporation [3]. That is the corporate lineage behind the Hess Bakken position. (That discovery was in older rocks, not the Bakken; the Bakken boom came decades later.)

Building the Bakken position

Hess's Bakken position includes its acquisition of American Oil & Gas Inc. The merger agreement was dated July 27, 2010. Hess's 8-K says the merger was completed on December 17, 2010, with each American share converted into 0.1373 shares of Hess common stock and the company renamed Hess Bakken Investments I Corporation [4]. The operating entity named on state records today, Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC, is the name shown on the Department of Mineral Resources' 2026 top-ten slide [5].

Gas handling was a central part of Hess's North Dakota story. In March 2014, Reuters reported that Hess's Tioga gas plant expansion in Williams County was online [6].

Chevron takes over

Chevron announced it had completed its acquisition of Hess Corporation on July 18, 2025, after a favorable arbitration outcome on Hess's offshore Guyana asset. Chevron's release listed 463 thousand net acres of high-quality inventory in the Bakken among the assets it added, and quoted the former Hess chief executive describing the Bakken as a place where Hess was a leading oil and gas producer [7]. State records still show the operating entity as Hess Bakken Investments II, which is why this page and our index card show both names. The Department of Mineral Resources ranked it fifth in 2026, at 26.56 million barrels (9.6% of North Dakota production) through August [5].

October 2026 midstream restructuring

On October 6, 2026, Hess Midstream announced a definitive agreement under which it would acquire Chevron's DJ Basin gathering and storage assets, pay Chevron $200 million in cash, and cancel all of Chevron's ownership in Hess Midstream and its general partner. Chevron's Bakken gathering and processing agreements would be extended from 2033 to 2045 at lower tariffs, and Hess Midstream said it expects Chevron to drop from three Bakken rigs to two in December 2026 [8]. We summarized this item in our news feed (linked below).

The DMR's active-rig list, as read on October 25, 2026, showed three rigs under Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC: one in Mountrail County and two in Williams County [9]. Hess Midstream is a separate, publicly traded partnership that serves the Bakken position; it is not covered by this operator card.

Relevant news and sources

The sources this history was drawn from, in the order they are first cited. Links were checked when this page was built.

  1. Circular No. 204: summary of the Amerada Petroleum Corporation discovery well, Williams County — North Dakota Geological Survey, 1958.
  2. The 75th Anniversary of the Discovery of Oil in North Dakota (Misc. Series 96) — North Dakota Geological Survey, 2026.
  3. Hess Corporation (history and references) — Wikipedia, read Oct 25, 2026. Secondary summary of the Amerada and Hess corporate history.
  4. Form 8-K: completion of merger with American Oil & Gas Inc. — Hess Corporation / SEC, Dec 17, 2010.
  5. Director's Cut, October 2026: Top 10 oil producers in ND (slide 18) — ND Department of Mineral Resources, Oct 20, 2026. Year-to-date oil production through August 2026.
  6. Hess says Tioga gas plant expansion now online — Reuters, Mar 25, 2014.
  7. Chevron Completes Acquisition of Hess Corporation (Form 8-K exhibit 99.1) — Chevron / SEC, Jul 18, 2025.
  8. Hess Midstream announces transformative transaction — Hess Midstream via Nasdaq, Oct 6, 2026.
  9. Active Drilling Rig List — ND Department of Mineral Resources, read Oct 25, 2026. Live page that changes daily; counts quoted here are as read on Oct 25, 2026.

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Logos are trademarks of their respective owners and are used here only to identify each company; their use does not imply affiliation with or endorsement by Fort Union Minerals. Ranking basis: 2026 year-to-date oil production through August, million barrels; source: North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources, Director's Cut (October 20, 2026), slide 18.

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