Darren
Barbee
Oil and Gas Investor
A&D Strategies and Opportunities
A&D Strategies & Opportunities Buyer Spotlight: Only the Strong Survive
This operator showcases its deal to build scale while others hunker down, why it was able to transact during the crisis, and how the assets will transform its portfolio and outlook.
A&D Strategies & Opportunities Capital Providers’ Panel: Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?
Capital providers are becoming more wary of — and increasingly absent from — oil and gas. It’s been suggested that banks will begin taking a corporate-finance approach to operators’ revolvers.
A&D Strategies & Opportunities Roundtable: Private Equity’s New Game
The era of build-and-flip is over, but private-equity investors are ever-astute in finding ways to get a return on investment.
A&D Strategies & Opportunities Roundtable: The New Normal — Assets, Activity & Deal Flow
Everything changed in 2020, and maybe forever. How will the way operators approach production, rig count and capital affect deal flow?
A&D Strategies & Opportunities Roundtable: The View Forward — A&D Veteran Strategies
Volatile times result in unprecedented opportunities for those who can see through the chaos. These industry veteran dealmakers—J.D. Smith, Mark Castiglione and Steve Herod—will discuss their insights and what potential wins they see in today’s market that others might not.
A&D Strategies & Opportunities Spotlight: Don’t Look Back — A&D Metrics, Trends and Hopes
Amidst one of the most difficult years in history, A&D activity went nearly silent as the world dealt with a pandemic and volatile prices.
A&D Strategies & Opportunities: Capital, Geopolitics and the Biden Blue Wave — What’s Driving M&A Today?
Volatile macro-dynamics can hamper or accelerate dealmaking. How will upcoming A&D be influenced by investor and geopolitical penchant along with current baseline upstream operations?
A&D Strategies & Opportunities: Distressed A&D — Opportunities and Pitfalls When Buying From Leveraged Companies
Many companies are liquidity constrained and looking to raise capital via asset sales, whether or not in conjunction with a restructuring or bankruptcy.
Borrowing Cash To Fuel Growth Alone Is Over
Focus on returns, ESG essential to lure investors back to oil and gas.
Spur’s Jay Graham: Take Our Money, Please
Spur Energy Partners struggled to close deals even in a dead A&D market but still plans to spend hundreds of millions more to consolidate in the Permian’s Northwest Shelf.