
Undrilled but not Unnoticed: White Space Buyers Invest Now for Future Upside
Undeveloped, unpermitted acreage lures private equity risk-takers who want in on the mineral and royalty coffers.
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Darren Barbee, senior editor at Hart Energy, is the point person for A&D transactions and a writer for Oil and Gas Investor magazine and website. Barbee has won several national and state awards for reporting in his 17 years as a journalist, including his work as a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram before joining Hart. He holds a master's degree in Information Systems from the University of Texas Arlington.
Undeveloped, unpermitted acreage lures private equity risk-takers who want in on the mineral and royalty coffers.
The Mesa Minerals IV launch comes as M&A competition grapples for mineral and royalty interests, no matter the basin, says Mesa Minerals CEO Darin Zanovich.
Energy Information Administration price estimates for 2025 and 2026 are bad news for producers—if they come to pass—as breakeven prices for operators, even in the Permian Basin, require between $61/bbl and $62/bbl to remain profitable.
TG Natural Resources President and CEO Craig Jarchow said the company’s valuable Haynesville inventory provides a line of sight for investors 20 years down the line.
BKV Corp. applies its refrac playbook—tried and true in the Barnett Shale—to potential M&A targets as it looks to gain contiguous acreage, Upstream President Eric Jacobson told Hart Energy at DUG Gas.
Excelerate Energy will buy a New Fortress Energy’s Integrated downstream LNG and power platform in Jamaica in a $1.055 billion cash acquisition.
Executives at BP, Sempra Infrastructure and the American Petroleum Institute weighed in on U.S. natural gas prowess and the obstacles that could stand in the way: snagged permitting, prohibitive steel tariffs and layoffs of federal workers needed to approve projects.
A Summit Midstream Corp. (SMC) subsidiary will acquire Moonrise Midstream from Fundare Resources Co. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $90 million.
Norwegian oil and gas producer DNO ASA will acquire Sval Energi Group AS’ shares from private equity firm HitecVision.
Amplify Energy Corp. is moving forward on a deal to buy Juniper Capital portfolio companies North Peak Oil & Gas Holdings LLC and Century Oil and Gas Holdings LLC in the Denver-Julesburg and Powder River basins for $275.7 million, including debt.
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