-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, WZWqAXTod9heYaNS0tp3NkFxIZzEPY9M/7L5ahyUPo9WAubrnxTu7vlQSzKJ6XPY XJ26P5SGx2yKY26LhDIKZw== 0001158957-10-000214.txt : 20101014 0001158957-10-000214.hdr.sgml : 20101014 20101014103107 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001158957-10-000214 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20101012 FILED AS OF DATE: 20101014 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20101014 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: LARSON JEFFREY E CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001238743 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-34224 FILM NUMBER: 101123002 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6300 BRIDGE POINT PARKWAY STREET 2: BLDG 2 SUITE 500 CITY: AUSTIN STATE: TX ZIP: 78730 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BRIGHAM EXPLORATION CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001034755 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: CRUDE PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS [1311] IRS NUMBER: 752692967 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6300 BRIDGE POINT PARKWAY STREET 2: BLDG 2 SUITE 500 CITY: AUSTIN STATE: TX ZIP: 78730 BUSINESS PHONE: 5124273300 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6300 BRIDGE POINT PARKWAY STREET 2: BLDG 2 SUITE 500 CITY: AUSTIN STATE: TX ZIP: 78730 4 1 primary_doc.xml PRIMARY DOCUMENT X0303 4 2010-10-12 0 0001034755 BRIGHAM EXPLORATION CO BEXP 0001238743 LARSON JEFFREY E 6300 BRIDGE POINT PARKWAY BLDG 2 SUITE 500 AUSTIN TX 78730 0 1 0 0 Executive V.P. Exploration Common Stock, par value $.01 per share 2010-10-12 4 M 0 8000 5.08 A 46008 D Common Stock, par value $.01 per share 2010-10-12 4 S 0 8000 21.1336 D 38008 D Common Stock, par value $.01 per share 270 I By Spouse Incentive Stock Options (right to buy) 5.08 2010-10-12 4 M 0 8000 0 D 2009-10-10 2015-10-10 Common Stock, par value $.01 8000 24000 D Exercise of employee stock option to purchase 8,000 shares of common stock pursuant to the reporting person's existing 10b5-1 trading plan. Sale of common stock acquired as a result of the exercise of an employee stock option pursuant to the reporting person's existing 10b5-1 trading plan. $21.1336 was the weighted average sale price for the transaction reported. The sales prices ranged from a low of $20.67 per share to a high of $21.415 per share. Upon request, the reporting person will provide to the SEC staff, the issuer or any security holder of the issuer full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price. The options vest in five equal annual installments beginning 10/10/09. Exhibit 24 Power of Attorney /s/ Kari A. Potts, Attorney-in-fact 2010-10-14 EX-24 2 exhibit24.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY Exhibit 24

Exhibit 24



POWER OF ATTORNEY
For Executing Forms 3, 4 and 5


Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Kari Potts, David Brigham and Eric Sigsbey, signing singly, as the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:


(1)

execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as an officer and/or director of Brigham Exploration Company (the “Company”), Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the rules promulgated thereunder;


(2)

do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5 and timely file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and


(3)

take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in her or his discretion.


The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or her or his substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.


This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities relating to the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 13th day of October, 2010.



/s/ Jeffery E. Larson




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