BKV Corp. IPO’d on Sept. 26, nearly two years after the Barnett Shale’s top gas producer first filed to go public.
BKV Corp. priced its common shares at $18 each after and will begin trading on Sept. 26, about two years after the Denver company first filed for an IPO.
BKV Corp. has positioned itself as an LNG supplier near Gulf Coast markets with production averaging 718 MMcfe/d across about 460,000 Barnett acres, supported by 778 miles of associated gas gathering pipelines and 65 compression units.
Peak Resources LP, a Powder River Basin E&P led by industry veteran Jack E. Vaughn, is positioning itself for an IPO, filings show.
EQV Ventures reported “there is approximately $75 billion of private upstream assets held by aging private-equity funds that may require liquidity over the next five years.”
The firm is a 50/50 joint venture of Baker Hughes and Akastor ASA formed in 2021 to include brands such as Hydril and Vetco Gray as well as Wirth and Maritime Hydraulics.
Houston-based LandBridge, which manages some 220,000 surface acres in the Permian Basin, kicked off trading at $19 per share, more than 10% above its listing price.
Newly public Delaware Basin surface-owner LandBridge Co. has a 100-year lease agreement with one developer that could result in ground-breaking in two years and 1 GW in demand.
The operator who sold Pioneer Natural Resources Co. to Exxon Mobil in May for $59.5 billion joins his son Bryan Sheffield in shale gas investment Down Under.
Among those buying the Australian shale-gas developer’s pre-trade shares were U.S. wildcatter Bryan Sheffield and completions pressure-pumper Liberty Energy.