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EnerCom Effective Rig Count Equates to 1,109 Rigs in the Permian

EnerCom Effective Rig Count Equates to 1,109 Rigs in the Permian

U.S. added the most land rigs since April 2015

The U.S. rig count has finally exceeded 900 rigs, according to Baker Hughes’ (ticker: BHI) most recent weekly rig count.

American land rigs added 14 for a total of 878 rigs …

Halliburton Announces New CEO

Halliburton Announces New CEO

Dave Lesar passes CEO baton to Jeff Miller, remains executive chairman

After nearly 17 years at the helm of Halliburton (Ticker: HAL), Dave Lesar will be passing the title of CEO on to the company’s current president, Jeff Miller. The

Blackbird Energy Provides Operational Update in the Montney

Blackbird Energy Provides Operational Update in the Montney

Blackbird Energy plans to drill 11 operated wells in fiscal 2017 and 2018

Calgary-based Blackbird Energy (ticker: BBI) announced updates to both its operated and non-operated drilling programs Thursday. In the release, Blackbird said that the company plans to drill …

AG Refers Martinez Appellate Court Decision to Colorado Supreme Court

AG Refers Martinez Appellate Court Decision to Colorado Supreme Court

Outcome could have ‘profound effect’ on how or whether oil and gas operations are permitted in Colorado

Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman has sent what could turn into a landmark oil and gas ruling to the Colorado Supreme Court for …

More Than Half of All U.S. Oil and Gas Jobs Are In Texas: Dallas Fed

More Than Half of All U.S. Oil and Gas Jobs Are In Texas: Dallas Fed

Dallas Fed tracks breakevens, lowest opex

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas released its Energy Indicators report, outlining the continued recovery of the oil and gas industry.

No surprise

Texas is the heart of oil and gas activity, with both …

Round Two: OPEC vs. U.S. Shale

Round Two: OPEC vs. U.S. Shale

OPEC will meet to decide on further production cuts next week, but will their efforts be ruined by the power of U.S. shale producers?

OPEC has been restraining production since the beginning of the year, after a group of cartel …

WTI Stays near $49 if OPEC Cuts Continue: EnerCom

WTI Stays near $49 if OPEC Cuts Continue: EnerCom

OPEC’s meeting to decide the future of production cuts is quickly approaching, and many expect that the group will extend their deal through at least the end of this year.

The production cuts, when they were first initiated, helped to …

Noble Sells Marcellus Midstream Interest for $765 Million

Noble Sells Marcellus Midstream Interest for $765 Million

Noble’s Marcellus divestments add up to $2 billion; buyer is Quantum Energy Partners

Noble Energy (ticker: NBL) will sell its 50% interest in Cone Gathering and 33.5% ownership in Cone Midstream Partners (ticker: CNNX) to Quantum Energy Partners for a …

Tellurian Offers 10 Million Shares, but Quickly Pulls Offer

Tellurian Offers 10 Million Shares, but Quickly Pulls Offer

On May 17, 2017,  U.S. LNG export startup Tellurian Inc. (ticker: TELL) announced it planned to sell 10,000,000 shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering with Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as the deal’s sole book-running manager …

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper

28 Colorado Mayors, County Commissioners Ask Gov. Hickenlooper to Override COGCC Vote on Martinez Case

Colorado’s anti-oil politics

A letter to Colo. Gov. John Hickenlooper from a group of sitting Colorado mayors, council members, trustees and county commissioners, dated May 15, 2017, made a plea to the Colorado governor “to override the COGCC vote and …

OPEC’s Steep Price for Market Share

OPEC’s Steep Price for Market Share

Flooding the market has quickly emptied the kingdom’s checkbook

In case you missed the past three years, on Thanksgiving Day 2014, OPEC announced it would not cut oil production in the name of gaining customers and growing market share for …

Aspen Midstream Receives $200 Million Commitment from EnCap

Aspen Midstream Receives $200 Million Commitment from EnCap

Company is funded, project locations unnamed

Aspen Midstream LLC announced today that the company has secured a commitment of $200 million from private equity group EnCap Flatrock Midstream. Aspen Midstream was launched this May and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.…

Painted Pony Closes $224 Million Montney Acquisition, Announces New Name

Painted Pony Closes $224 Million Montney Acquisition, Announces New Name

Painted Pony appoints directors, increases credit facility

Painted Pony (ticker: PPY) closed its acquisition of 108 net sections in Northeast British Columbia from UGR Blair Creek, a subsidiary of Unconventional Resources Canada. Painted Pony paid for this acquisition with 41 …

RBC Examines 3 Paths to Oil Rebalance

RBC Examines 3 Paths to Oil Rebalance

U.S. crude oil stocks at this point in 2017 have dropped below the record highs of 2016. But inventories are still high. So in the face of predicted increasing oil production from shale in 2017, rebalancing inventories will be difficult, …

Tamarack Valley Energy Reports Positive Earnings Following Transformational Acquisition

Tamarack Valley Energy Reports Positive Earnings Following Transformational Acquisition

Tamarack Valley reports production growth and earnings of $2.3 million in the first quarter

Calgary-based Tamarack Valley Energy (ticker: TVE) announced its first quarter results Monday reporting more production along with earnings of $2.3 million following its combination with Spur …

SM Keeping Bakken Assets

SM Keeping Bakken Assets

Bids for Divide County acreage didn’t add up

SM Energy (ticker: SM) announced today that it has postponed indefinitely the sale of its Divide County North Dakota assets.

SM expressed its desire to sell its Divide County assets in January, …

Creole Spirt, Teekay Tanker Suezmax Tanker, Source: Teekay

Deal Paves Way for Mega-sized U.S. Energy Exports

China world’s largest energy consumer

A new deal between China and the U.S. has thrown open a door for U.S. LNG producers to export the country’s vast energy supplies to China. It’s the first step for the U.S. to become …

Europe Feels Pressure to End Use of Diesel Fuel

Europe Feels Pressure to End Use of Diesel Fuel

Poor air quality driving European cities against diesel

At the December C40 meeting in Mexico, the mayors of Paris, Mexico City, Madrid and Athens announced that they will stop the use of all diesel-powered cars and trucks by the middle …

Land of Oil: North Dakota’s Producing Wells at All-Time High

Land of Oil: North Dakota’s Producing Wells at All-Time High

Oil production down, gas production up

The North Dakota Industrial Commission released its latest Oil and Gas Production Report Friday, outlining hydrocarbon activity in the state for March 2017.

Oil production down in spite of all-time high producing wells

The …

Permian Effective Rig Count 1,109

Permian Effective Rig Count 1,109

Nationwide EERC higher than ever at 1,873

EnerCom released its monthly EnerCom Effective Rig Count today. Launched in January, the EnerCom Effective Rig Count seeks to account for improved productivity in recent developments.

The downturn forced companies to innovate and …

Delphi Energy Acquires More Montney Acres

Delphi Energy Acquires More Montney Acres

Delphi Energy adds 22.5 sections in the greater Bigstone area

Calgary-based Delphi Energy (ticker: DEE) announced the acquisition of 22.5 sections of Monteny assets contiguous to its current land holdings as the company looks to continue expanding in the region.…

Canada’s Crude Oil Pacific Exports and Northern Gateway Likely Dead if Proposed Tanker Ban Becomes Law

Canada’s Crude Oil Pacific Exports and Northern Gateway Likely Dead if Proposed Tanker Ban Becomes Law

On Friday, the Canadian government introduced C-48, the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act

It’s no longer living as a temporary moratorium or simply a political threat. On Friday Canada’s federal government introduced legislation that will turn its informal ban on crude …

Permian Dominates Again:  Rig Count Rises 17th Week

Permian Dominates Again: Rig Count Rises 17th Week

Texas has 51% of all active rigs in the U.S.

Baker Hughes (ticker: BHI) released its weekly rig count today, announcing the seventeenth straight week of increasing drilling activity.

In total, eight rigs came online in the U.S. this week, …

Newly Emerging Play is ‘One of the Best Kept Secrets in the Permian’

Newly Emerging Play is ‘One of the Best Kept Secrets in the Permian’

$2-million wells in the San Andres are generating 50% to 70% ROR

Profitable Yuma Energy (ticker: YUMA) reported first quarter earnings Thursday, showing net earnings of $2.6 million, or $0.16 per diluted share. This compares favorably with the $12.8 million …

Permian Pure Play Jagged Peak Checks Off 53% Production Growth in Q1

Permian Pure Play Jagged Peak Checks Off 53% Production Growth in Q1

Jagged Peak has six rigs on its Delaware acreage, planning five frac fleets for 2017

Jagged Peak Energy (ticker: JAG) released first quarter earnings Thursday, showing a net loss of $465.9 million, or ($0.42) per share. The vast majority of …

WildHorse Ups Eagle Ford Stake with $625 Million Purchase from Anadarko, KKR

WildHorse Ups Eagle Ford Stake with $625 Million Purchase from Anadarko, KKR

$625 million Eagle Ford acreage acquisition makes WildHorse the second largest Eagle Ford player—for one fifth the price of Permian acreage

WildHorse Resource Development (ticker: WRD) today announced the purchase of 111,000 net acres in the Eagle Ford from Anadarko …

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at Paris Agreement Ratification Ceremony.
From Paris to Hangzhou – Climate Response in Action.
H.E. Mr. XI Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China and H.E. Mr. Barack Obama, President of the United States of America present the instrument for the Paris Agreement to the Secretary-General.

Climate-Related Financial Disclosure a Terrible Idea: IHS Report

New IHS report finds FSB’s climate risk reporting recommendations would undermine capital allocation decisions and could distort markets

In December 2016, the Basel, Switzerland-based Financial Stability Board (FSB) put out the recommendation of its Michael Bloomberg-led task force that concluded …

Source: Sweetcrudereport.com

Largest Crude Draw of the Year Sends Prices North

The 5.2 MMBO crude oil inventory draw is the largest since December 2016

U.S. crude oil inventory levels fell 5.2 MMBO in the week ended May 5, according to the EIA, sending traders into action yesterday. Oil markets have been …

BP’s First 9 Offshore Wells in West Nile Delta Project are Producing, Gas Going to Egypt: BP

BP’s First 9 Offshore Wells in West Nile Delta Project are Producing, Gas Going to Egypt: BP

BP said it started gas production from the first two fields, Taurus and Libra, of the West Nile Delta development in Egypt, eight months ahead of schedule.

 

First gas was exported to Egypt’s national grid on March 24, 2017 …

Anadarko Makes Leadership Changes

Anadarko Makes Leadership Changes

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) has named Daniel E. Brown Executive Vice President, International and Deepwater Operations, and Bradley J. Holly Executive Vice President, U.S. Onshore Exploration and Production.

“Danny and Brad have each been with Anadarko for the last …