A&D Trends: Buck Rogers Vs. Michael Corleone
The beginning of February brought a sense of just how off-kilter 2019 is setting out to be.
March 22, 2019
Noble Energy Prunes Permian Basin Position With $132 Million Sale
Noble Energy has targeted divestitures of between $500 million to $1 billion in assets sales to support its ambitious, though frugal plans for 2019.
March 13, 2019
A&D’s Long And Twisted Road
The middle class of E&P companies is shrinking as consolidators target companies valued between $3- and $10 billion, leaving dozens of lesser-valued companies to sweat as access to public equity markets remains blocked and oil prices recede.
March 8, 2019
Quantum CEO: Welcome To Shale 3.0
As public companies upgrade to data analytics and supply chain management to further improve their bottom lines, private-equity E&Ps will have to work harder to make assets appealing to buyers.
March 6, 2019
M&A’s Unfinished Symphony
Splashy mergers worth billions dominated the talk, but many companies spent the year playing it safe as E&P executives fretted over trade, interest rates, demand for oil, how to please investors and how long better times would last.
March 1, 2019
A&D Market Heroes And Villains
The A&D market for upstream oil and gas producers got whammied in December, and it’s making for some interesting heroes and villains.
February 27, 2019
Double Eagle Energy: Natural-Born Deal Makers
Double Eagle Energy Holdings III LLC’s young co-CEOs have seen life-altering success in Oklahoma and Permian Basin deals. But it’s a renewable resource—relationships, that is—that powers the company.
February 14, 2019
Devon Energy Deals Central Basin Platform Assets For $191 Million
Devon Energy had been actively shopping the Permian Basin assets, and others in the Rockies, the past several months.
February 7, 2019
The Year In Energy
For the most part, 2018 was a good year for producers. Here, Oil and Gas Investor chronicles the highlights of the year in energy.
February 1, 2019
A&D Trends: Free-Market Farce
Big ticket, stock-heavy M&A overshadowed low-volume asset deals late in the year—and investors shunned both.
January 29, 2019