We are updating our recovery analysis for U.S.-based oil and gas exploration and production company Northern Oil and Gas Inc. based on its year-end 2015 PV-10, which uses Standard&Poor's recovery price assumptions. We are revising the recovery rating on the company's unsecured debt to '6' from '5'. As a result, we are also lowering the issue-level rating on the senior unsecured debt to 'CCC' from 'CCC+' and removing it from CreditWatch with negative implications. The corporate credit rating remains 'B-', with a negative outlook. On April 8, 2016, Standard&Poor's Ratings Services revised its recovery rating on Wayzata, Minn.-based Northern Oil and Gas Inc.'s senior unsecured debt to '6' from '5'. The '6' recovery rating indicates our