Niobrara
Lease Sales
Marketed: Whiting Petroleum Redtail Assets, Weld County, Colorado
Whiting Petroleum retained Meagher Energy Advisors for the sale of its Retail upstream and midstream assets in Colorado’s Weld County including shallow decline, horizontal Niobrara producing properties.
Public Capital , Shale Plays , Acquisitions & Divestitures , Mergers
Bonanza Creek, Extraction Merger to Create Largest Pure-play D-J Basin Producer
The combined company, to be named Civitas Resources, will be the largest pure-play energy producer in Colorado’s Denver-Julesburg Basin, with an aggregate enterprise value of approximately $2.6 billion.
Rig Counts , Unconventional
Chart: Western Rig Count as of May 7, 2021
California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming
Lease Sales
On the Market Oil and Gas Quicklist (Week of May 5, 2021)
Here’s a quicklist of oil and gas assets on the market including Fairway Resources Oklahoma properties and Kaiser-Francis Oil well package in Louisiana plus the offer from Centennial Resource Production to acquire or farm in certain operated assets in the Permian Basin of Reeves County, Texas.
Unconventional , Top IP Wells
Updated: Top 12 IP Wells in Niobrara Shale
December 2020: High-volume Hornbuckle Field-Niobrara Producer: 2,413 bbl of Oil, 4.375 MMcf/d.
Lease Sales
On the Market Oil and Gas Quicklist (Week of April 28, 2021)
Here’s a quicklist of oil and gas assets on the market including an Eagle Ford / Austin Chalk well package plus Encore Permian mineral assets across the Midland and Delaware basins and a SandRidge Permian Trust acquisition opportunity.
Lease Sales
On the Market Oil and Gas Quicklist (Week of April 21, 2021)
Here’s a quicklist of oil and gas assets on the market including EOG Resources Reeves County nonop working interest in the Permian Basin plus Unit Petroleum Oklahoma waterflood properties in Oklahoma County and Cross Plains Energy Partners Delaware Basin properties.
Highlights
Best of This Week’s Drilling Activity Highlights (April 16, 2021)
Production starts at a Shell-operated venture in the Gulf of Mexico, a horizontal Woodford Shale completion in Pecos County, Texas, plus Crestone Peak Niobrara wells in Colorado’s Arapahoe County top this week’s oil and gas drilling activity highlights from around the world.
Transactions
Marketed: Mallard Exploration Rural D-J Basin JV Opportunity
Mallard Exploration has exclusively retained Eagle River Energy Advisors to solicit partnerships for certain operated producing, drilled uncompleted and/or development working interest assets in the Denver-Julesburg Basin of rural Weld County in Colorado.
Highlights , Shale Plays
Best of This Week’s Drilling Activity Highlights (April 1, 2021)
A Haynesville Shale test by Sabine Oil & Gas in Panola County, Texas, plus EOG Resources’ launch of a drilling program in Wyoming’s Johnson County named for country music stars top this week’s oil and gas drilling activity highlights from around the world.