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CPP buys $300M stake in Bakken oil firm Halcón Resources

CPP Investment Board is investing $300 million in a U.S. company that's making a major acquisition in North Dakota's portion of the Bakken formation, an emerging source of light oil underlying the Canada-U.S. border.
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Roughnecks work at a gas facility in the Bakken oil field. Canada's national pension plan has made a $300 million investment in a company working the field. (REUTERS/Rod Nickel)

CPP Investment Board will spend$300 million in a U.S. company that's active in the Bakken formation, an emerging source of light oil underlying the Canada-U.S. border in North Dakota.

The investment board that runs Canada's national pension plan is buying an equity stake in Halcón Resources Corp. as part of a $1.45-billion deal that will see the Houston-based company purchase oil and gas assets in the Williston Basin from Petro Hunt LLC.

Halcón Resources owns producing and undeveloped oil and gas assets in the Williston Basin. The company currently extracts 10,500 barrels of oil equivalent per day from its assets throughout the Bakken.

CPP will buy common stock in Halcon at  $7.16 per share, the companies said in a release Monday.

"[This] investment aligns with our strategy to provide strategic, long-term capital to well-positioned companies like Halcón and work with management to help create value now and in the future," CPPIB's vice-president R. Scott Lawrence said.

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