Black Hills Sells Williston Basin Oil and Gas Assets for $243 Million

Black Hills Corp. (NYSE: BKH) today announced that its oil and gas subsidiary, Black Hills Exploration & Production, Inc., signed a definitive agreement to sell approximately 85 percent of its Bakken and Three Forks shale assets in the Williston Basin for approximately $243 million, subject to customary pre-closing and post-closing adjustments. The sale has an effective date of July 1, 2012, with an estimated closing date on or before Sept. 30, 2012.

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