Forbes | Whiting Petroleum Buys Time To Survive Oil Blowup Forbes The shale oil driller agreed to buy debt-laden Kodiak Oil and Gas when oil was near its $100 highs over the summer, only to see its shares routed by a swift 50% drop in the price of the commodity. But now, after a failed effort to sell itself, the ... Largest ND oil producer offering 35 million shares to reduce debt |