Independent In The Midland
Smaller Midland Basin operators discuss longer laterals, parent-child, lowering per-foot costs, evaluating additional targets and field operations efficiencies.
February 4, 2020
East Texas Chalk: It’s The Matrix
Another century, another sequel to the indomitable Austin Chalk where it all began: East Texas. This rock still has a lot of oil and gas.
January 24, 2020
Midcontinent E&P Asset Buyers Sticking To Shopping Lists
“If the square peg does not fit exactly within those parameters, it’s not a buy for them,” BOK Financial Securities’ Jason Reimbold said of the E&P A&D market in the Midcontinent.
January 7, 2020
Shale EOR: Found Oil
Tight-rock operators are testing EOR ideas to produce more oil where they’ve already made hole. Here are some of their findings.
December 18, 2019
Oklahoma’s Stack Play ‘A Victim’ Of Pace, Space And More
Fortunately, “the rock is actually good,” Chaparral Energy CFO Scott Pittman told attendees at the recently held DUG Midcontinent conference in Oklahoma City.
December 15, 2019
Executive Q&A: Do The Right Thing
Former Covey Park Resources co-CEO John Jacobi shares his views on challenges facing the industry today, how the deal went down with Comstock Resources and why industry stakeholders need to take ownership of righting the ship.
December 3, 2019
Analyst: ‘Generalist Investors Are Running Away’ From Oil And Gas
And other above-ground challenges oil and gas producers in the Permian Basin are facing.
November 18, 2019
Boomers, Sooner: Oklahoma Oil And Gas Producers
Oklahoma producers are intensifying multisection-lateral and multizone development of their liquids-rich leasehold, bringing production nearer to first spend. They’re also paring costs by millions per well.
November 4, 2019
Heard On The E&P PE Front: ‘Gloom,’ ‘Doom’ And ‘Dead’
Also heard: “Hunkering,” “fragmented” and “it’s not something we can blame on oil prices.”
October 29, 2019
The PE-Backed E&P, v.2019
Public E&P investors are insisting that operators produce returns, so private-equity-backed E&Ps wanting to sell to a public E&P are working to do the same. One said, “It all rolls downhill.”
September 3, 2019