Nissa
Darbonne
Oil and Gas Investor
Hart Energy
Queen’s Chess: Changing the Rules
There’s a popular response to the inexplicable: “I don’t know. I don’t make the rules.” But what is known with certainty, as shown throughout history, is that we can change them.
Harold Hamm: Directional Drilling, Shale Boom Fueled US Energy Renaissance
Advances in drilling technology reignited a stagnant American oil and gas industry and turned the U.S. into the world’s largest crude exporter. Despite momentum for a clean energy transition, experts at Hart Energy’s 50th Anniversary Hall of Fame Awards ceremony said U.S. oil and gas will be needed for decades to come.
Hart Energy at 50: How We’ve Grown
Founded in 1973 with a Rockies-focused magazine and a directory, Hart Energy today is the go-to source of internationally recognized print, digital, in-person conference, mapping and databases of market intelligence for U.S. and global energy leaders.
Blockbuster Bonanza
A half-century of massive deals, eye-popping purchase prices and larger-than-life characters have reshaped the global energy landscape as we know it.
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Rockies Focused Prairie Pursuing M&A Post Bayswater Bolt-On
Prairie Operating CFO Greg Patton describes the company's shift into the E&P space and its potential M&A plans following Prairie's $600-million D-J acquisition from Bayswater Exploration and Production.
Some Privates Capitalizing on Low Completion Costs Amidst Volatility
Liberty Energy CEO Ron Gusek says he sees private companies in strong financial positions adding rigs to drill while completion costs are low and then waiting for a strong price signal to move ahead on production.
M&A Experts: Expect Brisk Return to Deal Flow in Second Half
Private equity firms are loaded for “pent-up” portfolio rationalization after rampant industry consolidation, particularly in the Permian—but the timing is anyone’s guess.
Exclusive: Energy Transfer on Ethane Export Leadership Despite Trade Tensions
Tom Long, Energy Transfer co-CEO delved into the company’s pipeline progress and challenges and its ethane market leadership despite tariffs in this Hart Energy Exclusive interview.
Kinetik CEO Pushes Trump Admin to Rethink Tariffs on Steel
Kinetik CEO Jamie Welch said the U.S. oil and gas industry’s products are “born and bred … in our backyard,” and therefore should get exemptions from the tariffs impacting the materials needed to drill and move hydrocarbons.
Exclusive: Continental Sees Billion-Barrel Resource Potential in Powder River
Continental Resources President and CEO Doug Lawler discussed technical breakthroughs being made in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin and his thoughts on whether there will be peak oil in the Lower 48, in this Hart Energy Exclusive interview.
Berry ‘Excited’ for Uinta’s Resource Potential from Horizontal Drilling
Berry Corp. is excited for the untapped resource potential from the Uinta Basin as it dives deeper into horizontal drilling in the basin, CEO Fernando Araujo tells Hart Energy’s Nissa Darbonne.
‘More is to Come’: Matador’s Foran on Upping Crude Production, 2025 Outlook
Matador Resources CEO Joe Foran discusses the driving decision in locking in its hedges earlier this year and the company’s oil and gas growth plans, in this Hart Energy Exclusive interview.
Financiers: ESG May be ‘Woke Capitalism’ But Keep an Eye on It
Capital providers including EnCap Flatrock Midstream worry the cost of inaction is great while Quantum Capital Group warns that the next Democratic president could be “worse than the last.”
Energy Pundits Bullish on Economy, Despite Volatility
Tariff and inflation fears are complicating an energy market with sectors that remain poised to boom, financial managers say.