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Hess Corporation

Sell stored Bakken crude oil

Delivered after the deadline

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Announced
7 May 2020
Due
31 Dec 2020
Delivered
Q1 2021
  • Deadline
  • Met
  • Late
  • Not met
  • Today

What the company said

“store 2 million barrels each of May, June and July Bakken crude oil production that is expected to be sold in the fourth quarter of 2020”
  • SourceHess Corporation Form 8-K press release, 2020-05-07
  • FilingSEC filing index
  • Deadline as statedin the fourth quarter of 2020
  • Deadline used31 Dec 2020, the last day of the stated period
  • TypeProduct
  • Permanent referenceKI-C-2020-C004447-017562
    Cite as https://keptindex.org/c/KI-C-2020-C004447-017562/ — this address never changes.

What we found

Evidence strength A What the grades mean

Hess stored crude oil in 2020 but did not sell the stored volumes until the first quarter of 2021, missing the fourth quarter 2020 deadline.

  • A
    Hess Corporation 10-Q filed 2021-05-06 Regulatory filing · published 6 May 2021 · retrieved 20 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC · fingerprint 237253b01de5
    “During the first quarter of 2021, we completed the sale of 4.2 million barrels of Bakken crude oil transported and stored on two VLCCs during 2020” ✓ confirmed on the page
  • A
    Hess Corporation 10-Q filed 2021-05-06 Regulatory filing · published 6 May 2021 · retrieved 20 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC · fingerprint 237253b01de5
    “(a)Sales volumes for the first quarter of 2021 include 4.2 million barrels that were stored on VLCCs at December 31, 2020.” ✓ confirmed on the page

Checked 20 Oct 2026.

Commitment DNA

The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.

Event type
Product other
Indicative materiality
Low rules
Action
Sell
Deliverable
Stored Bakken crude oil
Where
Bakken
Language
Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
In the company’s control
High
Specificity
Medium

How this entry was checked

  1. Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
  2. First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
  3. Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.

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