Oil and Gas Investor Magazine

Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - February 2021

Oil and Gas Investor Cover Story: OFS in Transition

Like the E&P sector that precedes it, U.S. oilfield services companies are facing a precipitous drop in capex for 2021. The hard reality? Adapt or die. 

Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - January 2021

ESG & The Independent E&P

The U.S. oil and gas industry is under extreme pressure by capital providers, stakeholders and elected officials to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and to show compliance to globally accepted climate change goals. Can a hydrocarbon-producing company win in this scenario?

Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - December 2020

Oil and Gas Investor: A Re-Balancing Act

After enduring a wild year, oil and gas producers seek a “new normal.” It will depend on the balance between supply and demand and the economic recovery.

Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - November 2020

Oil and Gas Investor: How to Delaware Today

Securing federal drilling permits, further proving the merits of midspacing wells, making free cash flow, achieving scale and finding an exit or, if not, how to go forward otherwise. Here’s what’s on the minds of oil and gas operators in the Delaware Basin today.

Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - October 2020

How to Make E&Ps Investable Again

Wall Street kicked U.S. independents to the curb, fed up with a decade of capital destruction, misaligned executive incentives and an indifference to environmental impacts. Do E&P management teams have the chutzpah to transform their models to win back investors?

Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - September 2020

US Shale: Meditations on the Revolution

Shale operators have plans to restart production. But with OPEC seemingly satisfied with $40 oil prices, U.S. producers are facing the prospect of becoming ‘zombie companies’—all dressed up but with nowhere to drill.

Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - August 2020

Haynesville 2020

Kicked out of the club in 2012, the Haynesville was resurrected beginning in 2017 to take on the mighty Marcellus in metrics, aided by a proximity-to-market kicker. Now, it’s taking on oil basins at the IRR weigh-in.

Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - July 2020

Private Reserves: An Outlook from Private Oil Producers

Zero- and lightly levered private operators throughout U.S. oil basins are on the lookout to buy—and not just where they operate currently. These five producers—in Wyoming, Oklahoma, Colorado and South Texas—share their plans.

Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - June 2020

Is Gas the Good News We Need?

With the prospect of associated gas from the Permian and Eagle Ford diminishing, many producers view the future of dry gas plays in the Appalachian Basin more positively. Those well-positioned and well-capitalized companies are staring at an unexpected opportunity.

Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - May 2020

OFS: Lower-for-Longer Scenario

As E&Ps jam the brakes on capex spend, the largest U.S. oilfield service providers respond in unison, cutting costs where they can and laying down equipment where they must.

Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - April 2020

Oil and Gas Dealmaking Outlook: M&A Gone Mild

In a market environment where buyers and sellers are at odds over price and the public market is openly hostile to deals, E&P shoppers may sit out an uncertain 2020.

Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - March 2020

ESG And Energy

Some say broader environmental, social and governance measures are a must in support of a global decarbonization campaign.