While Facebook is a concept of the mind that can migrate its human capital to the tax climate it deems best, Continental Resources cannot change the location of the Bakkenoilfield.
Elliott has said it wants Hess to boost shareholder value through various means, including a potential spin-off of the oil company's holdings in North Dakota's Bakken shale-oil field.
The US Geological Survey estimates that the Bakkenfield has 6.2bn barrels of recoverable oil, using unconventional methods of fracturing shale oil formations.