Exploration and Production (E&P)

Range Announces Q1: Record Production of 1.93 Bcfe/day

Range Announces Q1: Record Production of 1.93 Bcfe/day

Super-rich Washington County pad averages 31.4 Mmcfe/day per well

Range Resources Corp. (ticker: RRC) released first quarter 2017 financial results.

Highlights for Q1:

  • First quarter GAAP net income reached $170 million, or $0.69 per diluted share, compared to a net
Parsley Closes $2.8 Billion Midland Acquisition

Parsley Closes $2.8 Billion Midland Acquisition

Permian-focused Parsley Energy (NYSE: PE) closed the acquisition of undeveloped acreage and producing oil and gas properties in the core of the Midland Basin from Double Eagle Energy Permian LLC for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $2.8 billion, consisting …

Ban on Sand for Oil and Gas Development Prompts Lawsuit in Minnesota

Ban on Sand for Oil and Gas Development Prompts Lawsuit in Minnesota

Is sand the new oil & gas battleground?

Is sand the next battleground for energy development? The early salvos are taking place in Minnesota’s Winona County.

In late 2016, Winona County commissioners voted to ban what the Minneapolis Star Tribune …

Energy XXI Gulf Coast Appoints Douglas E. Brooks President and CEO

Energy XXI Gulf Coast Appoints Douglas E. Brooks President and CEO

Energy XXI Gulf Coast, Inc. (ticker: EXXI) has appointed Douglas E. Brooks as its CEO and president, effective April 17, 2017, the company announced in a news release.  The Energy XXI Gulf Coast Board of Directors concurrently increased the …

PDC Energy (ticker: PDCE) CEO Bart Brookman rang the Nasdaq opening bell today in celebration of PDC’s 40 years trading on Nasdaq.

PDC Energy Celebrates 40 Years on Nasdaq

PDC Energy Celebrates 40 Years on Nasdaq

PDC Energy (ticker: PDCE) CEO Bart Brookman rang the Nasdaq opening bell today in celebration of PDC’s 40 years trading on Nasdaq. The company had numerous executives on site for the occasion at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square.

PDC Energy Celebrates 40 Years on Nasdaq

PDCE:

BAM! It’s Earnings Season Again – Q1’17 Estimates

BAM! It’s Earnings Season Again – Q1’17 Estimates

EnerCom, Inc. has compiled first quarter earnings per share, revenue, EBITDA and cash flow per share analyst consensus estimates on 155 E&P and OilService companies in our database.

Download EnerCom’s 155-company earnings tables here.

The median OilServices company earnings …

Is the Delaware Losing its Allure?

Is the Delaware Losing its Allure?

High per-acre costs make turning a profit in the Delaware more difficult

Capital has rushed into the Permian as oil prices stabilize and operators look for the best acreage possible. The majority of that capital has been focused in the …

Energy for a Lifetime: USGS Quadruples NatGas Estimate from 70 Tcf to 304 Tcf for Bossier and Haynesville Plays

Energy for a Lifetime: USGS Quadruples NatGas Estimate from 70 Tcf to 304 Tcf for Bossier and Haynesville Plays

Two formations hold 4 billion barrels of oil, 2 billion barrels of NGLs: USGS

On April 13th, the U.S. Geological Survey ( USGS ) released what it calls “the largest continuous natural gas assessment it has yet conducted” – a …

Netherland Sewell 2017 Oil & Gas Property Evaluation Seminars Begin May 8

Netherland Sewell 2017 Oil & Gas Property Evaluation Seminars Begin May 8

Registration is open for Netherland Sewell’s 2017 Oil & Gas Property Evaluation Seminars 

Each year since 1994, Netherland Sewell & Associates, Inc. (NSAI), one of the industry’s most highly regarded petroleum consulting firms, has conducted its popular Oil & Gas …

U.S. Rig Count Now 396 Rigs Higher Than Year-Ago Levels

U.S. Rig Count Now 396 Rigs Higher Than Year-Ago Levels

Drilling continues to pick up in the U.S. as oil remains above $50 per barrel

Baker Hughes Industries (ticker: BHI) released the North American rig count Friday showing yet another week of increased drilling activity in the United States. The …

WildHorse Borrowing Base Rises to $450 Million

WildHorse Borrowing Base Rises to $450 Million

WildHorse Resource Development’s (ticker: WRD) existing borrowing base under its $1.0 billion multi-year revolving credit facility was increased by its 15-lender bank group to $450 million from $362.5 million, the company announced today.

WRD’s revolving credit facility matures in December …

Unit Acquires 8,300 Acres in Hoxbar Play for $57 Million

Unit Acquires 8,300 Acres in Hoxbar Play for $57 Million

Acquisition increases Hoxbar holdings by 42%

Unit Corporation (ticker: UNT) announced the acquisition of 8,335 net acres in western Oklahoma for approximately $57 million. The acreage is located primarily in Grady and Caddo Counties, in the Hoxbar area of the …

Oil Above $50 Despite 15 Additional Rigs

Oil Above $50 Despite 15 Additional Rigs

Onshore drilling continues to spool up as oil remains near $50 per barrel

The U.S. rig count continued to climb in the week ended March 31, 2017, with Baker Hughes reporting 15 additional rigs added to fleets across the country …

Permian Operator Jagged Peak Predicts 221% Production Growth in 2017

Permian Operator Jagged Peak Predicts 221% Production Growth in 2017

56 wells planned

Jagged Peak Energy (ticker: JAG) went public less than two months ago, completing its IPO on January 27, 2017. The company reported its offering brought in net proceeds of $397.4 million from the sale of 31.6 million …

E&P Bankruptcies Tapering Off in 2017

E&P Bankruptcies Tapering Off in 2017

Five companies default in Jan-Feb brings total bankrupt E&Ps to 119

Five oil and gas companies have gone bankrupt in the first two months of this year, according to the most recent edition of Haynes and Boone’s Oil Patch Bankruptcy

Valuations of Appalachian E&Ps Could Start to Surpass the Permian Herd

Valuations of Appalachian E&Ps Could Start to Surpass the Permian Herd

Pipeline constraints limiting the value of Appalachian operators

It’s a Wall Street quandary. It is no secret that the Permian has become the hottest play in the United States with E&Ps competing to acquire acreage, but the companies operating there …

Going Horizontal in the Permian: Ring Energy Triples CapEx for 2017

Going Horizontal in the Permian: Ring Energy Triples CapEx for 2017

9 X the investment per well to yield 15X the reserves

With its 2016 reserves up 14% to 27.7 MMBOE from 24.4 MMBOE in 2015, consisting of about 90% oil, a small Midland, Texas-based oil company, Ring Energy (ticker: REI) …

Registration for EnerCom’s The Oil & Gas Conference® 22 is Open

Registration for EnerCom’s The Oil & Gas Conference® 22 is Open

Registration for EnerCom's The Oil & Gas Conference® 22 is Open

EnerCom Denver: August 13-17, 2017

EnerCom’s The Oil & Gas Conference® is one of the largest oil and gas investment conferences in the industry.

The 2016 event hosted 100+ presenting companies and 2,500+ company and investment professionals.

The 2017 event

White House Budget Increases Funding for Energy Development on Public Lands and Offshore, Continues to Streamline Permitting

White House Budget Increases Funding for Energy Development on Public Lands and Offshore, Continues to Streamline Permitting

The White House released its FY 2018 budget proposal today, entitled “America First – A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again.”

The White House proposes a budget that will increase funds in support of energy development on public lands …

The Best Acquisitions Are Not All in the Permian: a Comparison of 4 U.S. Deals

The Best Acquisitions Are Not All in the Permian: a Comparison of 4 U.S. Deals

Markets reward companies making good transactions, but sometimes even the Permian can’t move the needle

The most recent downturn in oil and gas prices has forced the industry to find the most economic acreage available in order to generate returns …

Resolute Energy: Permian Production Jumped to 13.5 MBOEPD in Q4

Resolute Energy: Permian Production Jumped to 13.5 MBOEPD in Q4

Resolute may divest Aneth field to accelerate Delaware program; could expand to 4 rigs

Resolute Energy (ticker: REN) reported fourth quarter results today, showing a net loss of $20.6 million, or ($1.23) per share. Full year results are a net …

KLR says Total E&P Production to Grow by 7% Annually Through 2019

KLR says Total E&P Production to Grow by 7% Annually Through 2019

E&P CapEx up 70% in 2017

As the oil and gas industry reacts to improvements in commodity prices over the last year companies are beginning to ramp up activities, according to analysis by KLR Group released yesterday.

According to KLR, …

Approach Resources’ 2017 CapEx Triples 2016’s Spend

Approach Resources’ 2017 CapEx Triples 2016’s Spend

Drilling and completion activities resume

Permian operator Approach Resources (ticker: AREX) reported fourth quarter results and reserves March 9, showing a net loss of $13.5 million, or ($0.32) per share. Net results for 2016 are a loss of $52.2 million, …

WPX Energy: Keeping its Permian Basin Service Costs in Check – an Oil & Gas 360® Exclusive

WPX Energy: Keeping its Permian Basin Service Costs in Check – an Oil & Gas 360® Exclusive

Planning in the supply chain: industry expects service costs to rise 10%-15%, but WPX has a firm handle on costs in the Permian

Everyone knew it would happen eventually: service costs are going on the rise. Halliburton (ticker: HAL) talked

EnerCom Exclusive: Tom Petrie Discusses the Effects of Saudi Oil on the U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Sector

EnerCom Exclusive: Tom Petrie Discusses the Effects of Saudi Oil on the U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Sector

The Saudi Aramco IPO, U.S. crude oil exports, U.S. LNG exports

During last week’s EnerCom Dallas oil and gas investment conference, Tom Petrie, chairman and founder of Petrie Partners, gave a luncheon presentation entitled “Scoping 21st Century Energy Geopolitics.”

At …

Marathon Jumps into the Permian with 70,000-Acre Acquisition, Sells Canadian Oil Sands Interest

Marathon Jumps into the Permian with 70,000-Acre Acquisition, Sells Canadian Oil Sands Interest

Marathon enters Permian for $13,900 per acre; exits oil sands with $2.5 billion cash sale to Shell and Canadian Natural Resources

Marathon Oil (ticker: MRO) has agreed to acquire approximately 70,000 net surface acres in the Permian basin from BC …

PetroQuest: Thunder Bayou is the Cash Engine that Powers Cotton Valley

PetroQuest: Thunder Bayou is the Cash Engine that Powers Cotton Valley

“This well has the highest sustained deliverability in the Gulf Coast, and we believe in the United States” – PetroQuest

PetroQuest (ticker: PQ) released its fourth quarter and year-end 2016 operations and financial updates today, which continued to demonstrate the …

Source: WPX

Onshore Rig Count Increases by Just One

Eagle Ford adds 5 rigs, Williston adds 3, Permian adds 2 for the week

Onshore drilling activity remained more or less unchanged for the week ended March 3, 2017, according to Baker Hughes’ (ticker: BHI) weekly report. The number of …

Resolute Energy Adds 4,600 Delaware Basin Acres for $160 Million

Resolute Energy Adds 4,600 Delaware Basin Acres for $160 Million

Fattens Resolute’s Delaware footprint 28%, adds 112 Wolfcamp A and B locations

Resolute Energy (ticker: REN) announced today the acquisition of 4,600 net Delaware basin acres for $160 million. In addition to the acreage, Resolute also acquired 800 BOEPD of …

International Frontier Resources Now Fully Funded for 2017 Operations in Mexico

International Frontier Resources Now Fully Funded for 2017 Operations in Mexico

International Frontier Resources closes financing for C$5.1 million

Calgary-based International Frontier Resources (TSX: IFR, OTCQB: IFRTF) announced today that the company closed it previously announced private placement for gross proceeds of C$5.1 million effective March 3, 2017, which consisted of …