Halcon Resources Announces Pricing of $400 Million Private Placement

Halcón Resources Corporation

today announced that it has entered into definitive agreements with institutional investors to sell, in a private offering, approximately 4,444 shares of automatically convertible preferred stock, each share of which will be convertible into 10,000 shares of its common stock, for anticipated gross proceeds of approximately $400 million, or $9.00 per common share. The Company expects the private offering to close on March 5, 2012, subject to certain closing conditions. The Company intends to use the proceeds for general corporate purposes, including leasing or acquiring acreage, seismic data, drilling and completion, and the acquisition of assets or existing operating companies.