Continental Resources has an-nounced the appointment of Stephen G. Bradley as vice president of oil marketing for the Enid-based oil and gas exploration and production company.

Warren Henry serves as vice president of investor relations for the company.



Stephen G. Bradley



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, he 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, 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, Getty Oil and Skelly Oil Co.

“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.”

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.



Warren Henry



Previous to joining Continental, Henry served for almost eight years as vice president of investor relations for Dobson Communications Inc., which was purchased by AT&T; in November 2007. At the time of its acquisition, Dobson was the largest rural wireless services provider in the United States, with networks in 17 states. During his tenure with Dobson, Henry managed communications with institutional and individual investors through nu-merous acquisitions, periods of industry consolidation and technology change in the wireless industry.



“Continental has grown dramatically in the past several years in revenue, profits and oil and gas production,” Hamm said. “As a newly public company, we must focus on consistently communicating our growth strategy and results to the investing public, and we’re glad to have Warren on board to help lead that effort.”

Prior to his service with Dobson, Henry managed investor relations for public companies in a variety of industries, including wireless telecommunications, technology manufacturing, medical technology and the oil and gas industry. Previous to these roles, he served as business editor for two newspapers in North Texas.



Henry is a past president of Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute, the primary trade organization for the investor relations industry. He earned a bachelor’s in political science from Duke Univer-sity and an MBA in information systems from the University of Dallas.



Continental Re-sources is a crude-oil concentrated, independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company with operations in the Rocky Moun-tain, 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 completed its initial public offering of shares last year and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under CLR.