Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.

Notice of Dismissal of Whiting Petroleum, Inc. Litigation and Agreement Upon Attorneys' Fees. On March 7, 2022, Whiting Petroleum Corporation ("Whiting") and Oasis Petroleum Inc. ("Oasis") entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger contemplating the merger of Whiting and Oasis in a merger of equals transaction. On May 24, 2022, Whiting filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") a definitive proxy statement to solicit the votes of its stockholders to approve the proposed merger (the "Proxy Statement") at a special stockholder meeting to be held on June 28, 2022.

On May 31, 2022, Barbara Siegfried ("Plaintiff") filed a Verified Class Action Complaint (the "Complaint") in the Delaware Court of Chancery (the "Court") under the caption Siegfried v. McCarthy, et al., 2022-0470-KSJM (the "Action") on behalf of a putative class of stockholders of Whiting challenging disclosures made in connection with the then-proposed merger of Whiting and Oasis (the "Transaction"), and alleging that the members of Whiting's Board of Directors (the "Defendants") breached their fiduciary duties to Whiting's stockholders in connection with disclosures made in the Proxy Statement. The Action sought, among other things, a preliminary injunction against the Transaction. Also on May 31, 2022, Plaintiff filed a motion for expedited proceedings and a motion for a preliminary injunction.

Defendants have denied that they committed any violation of law or engaged in any of the wrongful acts that were or could have been alleged in the Action, and expressly maintain that they diligently and scrupulously complied with their fiduciary and other legal duties.

On June 14, 2022, without admitting that the allegations in the Complaint had any merit, Whiting issued a Form 8-K containing supplemental disclosures that mooted certain of the allegations in the Action (the "Supplemental Disclosures"). On June 23, 2022, the Court denied the motion for a preliminary injunction. On August 4, 2022, the Court entered an order dismissing the Action as moot and retaining jurisdiction solely for adjudicating the anticipated application of Plaintiff's counsel for an award of attorneys' fees and expenses.

As a result of the Transaction, which closed on July 1, 2022, Whiting is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chord Energy Corporation ("Chord," f/k/a Oasis Petroleum Inc.). Following negotiations, Chord, on behalf of Defendants, while denying any and all liability and maintaining that the Proxy Statement already contained all material information required for stockholders to cast an informed vote regarding the Transaction prior to the Supplemental Disclosures, agreed to pay $75,000 to Plaintiff's counsel for attorneys' fees and expenses in full satisfaction of the claim for attorneys' fees and expenses in the Action.

On May 12, 2023, the Court entered an order closing the Action, subject to Chord filing an affidavit with the Court confirming that this notice has been issued. In entering the order, the Court was not asked to review, and did not pass judgment on, the payment of the attorneys' fees and expenses or their reasonableness.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.



(d) Exhibits.
Exhibit No.            Description of Exhibit

                       Cover Page Interactive Data File - the cover page interactive data file does
      104              not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded
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