Exploration and Production (E&P)

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Edge of the Wattenberg: Colorado: Weld County Just Created its Own Oil & Gas Department

Edge of the Wattenberg: as Moratorium Expires Crestone Peak Attempts to bring Drilling Back to Boulder County

Crestone Peak applied to drill 216 wells in Boulder County

Judge dismisses Colorado Attorney General’s lawsuit v. Boulder County after moratorium expires on May 1

Local control is alive and well in Boulder County

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Sanchez Increases Completion Intensity 60% in Shorter Eagle Ford Wells

Sanchez Increases Completion Intensity 60% in Shorter Eagle Ford Wells

3,000 lbs proppant per foot yielding flatter decline curves

Sanchez Energy (ticker: SN) announced results for first quarter 2017 today, showing a net loss of $12.5 million, or ($0.18) per share. This exceeds the $69.8 million loss the company reported …

EOG Whirling Wind Pad Breaks 30-Day IP Record in Upper Wolfcamp

EOG Whirling Wind Pad Breaks 30-Day IP Record in Upper Wolfcamp

Four-well pad producing combined 20,000 BOEPD 30-day IP

EOG Resources: (ticker: EOG) reported first quarter earnings today and also said that it set a company record for crude oil production in Q1, producing 315.7 MBOPD, 18% above last year’s Q1 …

Northern Oil and Gas: Enhanced Completions Generate 13 MBOEPD

Northern Oil and Gas: Enhanced Completions Generate 13 MBOEPD

Northern anticipates more production growth in 2H 2017

Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (ticker: NOG) reported total production of 1.2 million BOE for the first quarter, averaging 13,299 BOEPD.

Northern’s business model is as a non-operator franchise in the  Bakken …

PDC Targets 42% Production Growth in 2017

PDC Targets 42% Production Growth in 2017

$750 Million CapEx split between Wattenberg and Delaware

Wattenberg producer PDC Energy (ticker: PDCE) reported first quarter results on May 5, showing net income of $46.1 million, or $0.70 per diluted share. This significantly outperforms the $71.5 million net loss …

Diamondback “Very Comfortable” at $45 to $50 oil

Diamondback “Very Comfortable” at $45 to $50 oil

Cost reduction major focus

Diamondback Energy (ticker: FANG) held its first quarter conference call last week, where the pure-play Permian operator discussed current activity.

“Very comfortable” at $45 to $50 oil

During the conference call, Diamondback CEO Travis Stice commented …

Codell Sandstone Attracting Oil Drillers to Wyoming

Codell Sandstone Attracting Oil Drillers to Wyoming

Success in the Codell sandstone: Wyoming Geological Survey examines 119 producing Codell horizontal oil wells in Laramie County 

The Codell sandstone could be a formation that operators might begin to take seriously. A new report from the State of Wyoming …

Permian Thought Leaders Talk Turkey

Permian Thought Leaders Talk Turkey

“It will get to a point where it’s actually artificial intelligence that’s drilling our wells for us, with us observing” – Tim Dove, CEO, Pioneer Natural Resources

There are a lot of smart E&P companies rambling around West Texas, the …

More Sand:  Hi-Crush Doubling Permian Crews

More Sand: Hi-Crush Doubling Permian Crews

Hi-Crush accelerates plans to provide frac sand to the Permian

Hi-Crush Partners (ticker: HCLP) released its first quarter earnings Monday reporting improving financial results and an increased pace of development on Permian facilities. The company plans to increase the number …

Oil & Gas Infrastructure Could Generate 1 Million U.S. Jobs, Bump GDP by Almost $2 Trillion

Oil & Gas Infrastructure Could Generate 1 Million U.S. Jobs, Bump GDP by Almost $2 Trillion

$1.3 trillion private investment in oil and gas infrastructure could add almost $2 trillion to U.S. GDP

By 2035, if the right regulatory policies are in place, private investment could exceed $1.3 trillion for oil and natural gas infrastructure, and …

Eagle Ford, STACK Shine for Devon in Q1

Eagle Ford, STACK Shine for Devon in Q1

Devon targets 20 U.S. operated rigs by year-end

Devon Energy Corp. (ticker: DVN) reported stronger than expected production results Tuesday as the company’s U.S. resources outperformed its earlier guidance. Oil production averaged 261 MBOPD, up 7% sequentially, 5 MBOPD more …

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The World’s Coming Mega-Population Centers and the Energy They Will Need

Decline curves + global population growth: energy demand will outpace supply through 2040 (and beyond)

So far in 2017 a number of global energy experts and commodities watchers have looked beyond the current reporting period and they see a growing …

Noble Energy Reports Q1 Net Income of $36 Million, Sales Volumes of 382 MBOEPD

Noble Energy Reports Q1 Net Income of $36 Million, Sales Volumes of 382 MBOEPD

Noble Energy, Inc. (ticker: NBL) reported Q1 2017 results today, including net income attributable to Noble Energy of $36 million, or $0.08 per diluted share for the quarter.

Adjusted EBITDAX(1) was $600 million.  Total organic capital expenditures for the …

No Slowing the Permian Land Grab: Centennial Resource Development Enters the Northern Delaware

No Slowing the Permian Land Grab: Centennial Resource Development Enters the Northern Delaware

Raising our 2020 oil production target to 60,000 BOPD: Centennial CEO Mark Papa

Denver’s Centennial Resource Development, Inc. (ticker: CDEV) said on Monday it is acquiring undeveloped acreage and producing oil and gas properties in the core of the Northern …

Parsley Ups Borrowing Base to $1.4 Billion

Parsley Ups Borrowing Base to $1.4 Billion

Parsley has full borrowing capacity available for Permian development

Permian driller Parsley Energy (ticker: PE) said it has amended its revolving credit agreement, increasing the borrowing base by 60% to $1.4 billion, with a company-elected commitment amount of $1.0 billion.…

Samson Oil & Gas Reports Improving Differentials in the Williston

Samson Oil & Gas Reports Improving Differentials in the Williston

Samson Oil & Gas lowers differential from $8.00 per barrel to $5.50-$6.50

Samson Oil & Gas (ticker: SSN) announced its quarterly results for the first quarter of 2017 indicating that the company is seeing stronger pricing for its Williston Basin …

EnCap-Backed PetroLegacy Snags 20,000 Midland Acres from Pioneer

EnCap-Backed PetroLegacy Snags 20,000 Midland Acres from Pioneer

99% HBP by 220 producing vertical wells

EnCap-backed PetroLegacy Energy II, LLC closed on the acquisition of roughly 20,000 net acres in northeastern Martin County, Texas, from Pioneer Natural Resources Company (ticker: PXD) for $266 million.

PetroLegacy said the Northern …

Rig Count Sees Double-Digit Gains

Rig Count Sees Double-Digit Gains

More than twice as many rigs active today compared to a year ago

Drilling activity in the United States continues to increase with the rig count making a double-digit jump in the week ended April 28, 2017, according to Baker …

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Gazprom Reports $17.5 Billion of Profit in 2016 Despite Weaker Pricing

Gazprom continues to sell an increasing amount of gas to Europe

Russia’s state-owned gas giant Gazprom (ticker: OGZPY) announced its financial results for full-year 2016 Thursday, reporting a stronger profit despite lower sales prices.

The company supplied a record 178.3 …

Noble Energy Captures 171,000 Permian Acres and 10 MBOEPD Production as Clayton Williams Deal Closes

Noble Energy Captures 171,000 Permian Acres and 10 MBOEPD Production as Clayton Williams Deal Closes

Noble becomes 2nd largest Southern Delaware acreage holder

Noble Energy, Inc. (ticker: NBL) has completed its acquisition of Clayton Williams Energy as of market close on April 24, 2017.  In conjunction with the closing, Clayton Williams Energy became a wholly …

International Frontier Resources Prepares for 2017 Drilling Program in Mexico

International Frontier Resources Prepares for 2017 Drilling Program in Mexico

International Frontier preps for Tecolutla workovers in the near-term and new drilling in Q3

Calgary-based International Frontier Resources (ticker: IFR) announced its fourth quarter and year-end operating results for 2016 Wednesday. In the company’s release, IFR said it anticipates …

Nighthawk Energy: Production and Water Flood Update - Oil & Gas 360

Nighthawk Energy Announces Production for Q1 2017

Nighthawk, the U.S. focused oil development and production company with assets in Colorado (ticker: HAWK,  NHEGY), announced an update to production levels.

Gross and net* oil production (unaudited), in barrels, for the first three months of 2017 is summarized below.…

Lilis Energy Heading to NYSE from Nasdaq, Announces $140 Million Financings

Lilis Energy (ticker: LLEX) announced it will move to the NYSE MKT, less than two months after it landed a Nasdaq listing.

Lilis said in a press release its common stock has been approved for listing on the NYSE MKT …

BHP Billiton May Divest Some U.S. Shale

BHP Billiton May Divest Some U.S. Shale

Second attempt for BHP

Australian mining giant BHP Billiton (ticker: BBL) put out its nine months operational review today, which included a review of its shale portfolio and the statement that it might put its Fayetteville assets on the block …

Digging into Range Resources: Cotton Valley Returns Rival the Marcellus

Digging into Range Resources: Cotton Valley Returns Rival the Marcellus

Terryville IRR of 100%+

Range Resources (ticker: RRC) announced first quarter results yesterday, showing net income of $170 million, or $0.69 per share.

Range produced an average of 1.93 Bcfe/d in Q1 2017, a record for  the company. Production in …

PrairieSky: Q1 Drilling Focused on Viking, Mannville

PrairieSky: Q1 Drilling Focused on Viking, Mannville

PrairieSky Royalty Ltd. (ticker: PSK) released its first quarter operating and financial results for 2017. The company  is the largest fee simple mineral title land owner in western Canada, including approximately 7.8 million acres of fee simple mineral title lands …