Exploration and Production (E&P)

BP Sees Markets, Finances in Balance by 2017

BP Sees Markets, Finances in Balance by 2017

BP: Cost Cutting and Asset Disposal Continue, CapEx down 63% Year over Year

In BP’s (ticker: BP) 3Q earnings call, CFO Brian Gilvary saw progress towards market rebalancing, echoing CEO Bob Dudley’s comments earlier this month at the World Energy …

Source: Rosneft

Shell Reports $2.8 Billion Profit, but Management Says Global Outlook Remains Uncertain

Shell posts the largest profit of any major yet in Q3, but management said the industry isn’t out of the woods yet

Royal Dutch Shell (ticker: RDSA) reported a larger profit than any of the other international oil majors to …

Anadarko Finding Growth in the Three Ds: Delaware, DJ and Deepwater

Anadarko Finding Growth in the Three Ds: Delaware, DJ and Deepwater

Anadarko increases its sales volume guidance 8 MMBOE as the company streamlines assets

Anadarko Petroleum Company (ticker: APC) announced its third-quarter results today, placing an emphasis on investing in assets the company feels offer it the best returns: the Delaware …

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

Nighthawk Energy Updates Water Flood Pilot Project Dates

Nighthawk Energy (ticker: HAWK, NHEGY) announced today that its Arikaree Creek water flood pilot project is  expected to be pushed back until mid-November 2016, from Oct. 2016.

On 28 October 2016, the company performed a mechanical integrity test on the …

PetroQuest Aims to Close JV and Spud Cotton Valley Well in Q4; Recomplete Thunder Bayou in Q4 and Be Producing from the Upper Cris R-2 Formation in Q1 2017

PetroQuest Aims to Close JV and Spud Cotton Valley Well in Q4; Recomplete Thunder Bayou in Q4 and Be Producing from the Upper Cris R-2 Formation in Q1 2017

PetroQuest Energy, Inc. (ticker: PQ) announced a loss available to common stockholders for the quarter ended September 30, 2016 of $23,306,000, or $1.31 per share, compared to third quarter 2015 loss available to common stockholders of $51,910,000, or $3.19 per …

Samson Oil & Gas Closes North Stockyard Asset Sale

Samson Oil & Gas Closes North Stockyard Asset Sale

Samson Oil & Gas Limited (ticker: SSN) has sold its interest in the North Stockyard field for $15 million. The transaction closed on Friday after Samson received the balance of $13.95 million of the purchase price.

In an announcement Samson …

Exxon Continues to Focus on the Long-term

Exxon Continues to Focus on the Long-term

Records 3Q production of 3.8 million boe/d, $2.7 billion earnings

The world’s largest publicly-traded oil company gave its 3Q 2016 earnings call this morning. Jeff Woodbury, Vice President of Investor Relations, was on the call while CEO Rex Tillerson was …

Total Outperforms Peers, Upstream Buoyed by LNG Business

Total Outperforms Peers, Upstream Buoyed by LNG Business

Total: “positioned to be the most profitable European major oil company”

French oil major Total (ticker: TOT) reported its third quarter earnings today. The company has continued to send the same message every quarter, focusing on increasing production and declining …

Source: The Society of Petroleum Engineers

PEMEX Loss Shrinks Year over Year

A weak peso and increased interest expenses continue to hurt PEMEX

Mexican state-owned oil major PEMEX reported its third quarter earnings Friday, showing a smaller net loss this quarter than last year. The company’s net income loss for the quarter …

Is Wind Giant DONG Energy Selling its Oil & Gas Segment, or Not?

Is Wind Giant DONG Energy Selling its Oil & Gas Segment, or Not?

DONG says oil & gas segment is “not considered a long-term strategic commitment” – DONG engages J.P. Morgan to conduct a market assessment

Denmark-based wind energy developer DONG Energy (ticker: DENERG) successfully launched Europe’s biggest 2016 IPO in June. Besides …

Texas Aug. 2016 Oil & Gas Production Down almost 20% from Aug. 2015

Texas Aug. 2016 Oil & Gas Production Down almost 20% from Aug. 2015

Total oil and natural gas production per day has rolled over and started to decline in Texas, according to data recently released by the Texas Railroad Commission.

Total oil production for August 2016 was 84.8 MMbls, a six percent decrease …

Whiting Expects Double Digit Production Growth through 2017

Whiting Expects Double Digit Production Growth through 2017

Whiting says it will begin completing DUCs in Q1 ’17; would start adding rigs at $60 oil

On Whiting Petroleum’s (ticker: WLL) 3Q 2016 conference call, CEO James Volker stated that recoveries from enhanced completions and lower average well costs …

Yuma Completes All-Stock Merger with Davis Petroleum

Yuma Completes All-Stock Merger with Davis Petroleum

Davis merger improves Yuma’s liquidity, reserves, and daily production

Houston-based Yuma Energy (ticker: YUMA) and privately held Davis Petroleum Acquisition Corp. jointly announced today that the merger of the two companies was approved by shareholders and completed. Davis will become …

Buying Spree: EQT Acquired 19 Acres for Every Acre It Developed in 2016

Buying Spree: EQT Acquired 19 Acres for Every Acre It Developed in 2016

Marcellus acquisitions increase IRRs from 9% to 37% at $2.50 MMBtu gas prices

EQT Corporation (ticker: EQT) released its third quarter earnings results today, reporting a loss of $0.05 per diluted share compared to a net income of $0.27 per …

ConocoPhillips Shifts Capital into the Bakken and Eagle Ford in a Late 2016 Move

ConocoPhillips Shifts Capital into the Bakken and Eagle Ford in a Late 2016 Move

COP adding 5 rigs in the Bakken and Eagle Ford in Q4 2016

The world’s largest independent E&P, ConocoPhillips (ticker: COP), reported a third-quarter 2016 net loss of $1.0 billion, or ($0.84) per share today.

But the company snagged its …

Centennial Resource Development Equity Private Placements Now Total $910 Million

Centennial Resource Development: The Next Core Delaware Pure Play

Centennial Resource Development launches its new website: www.CDEVinc.com

A newly formed oil and gas E&P company, Centennial Resource Development (ticker: CDEV), (www.CDEVinc.com) is the Southern Delaware’s newest player, though its executive team and board of directors are anything …

Range Resources Increases Flexibility with North Louisiana Assets

Range Resources Increases Flexibility with North Louisiana Assets

Optionality in Capital Spending and Marketing a Key Benefit of Memorial Merger

In its 3Q 2016 earnings call, Range Resources (ticker: RRC) CEO Jeff Ventura discussed the positive outlook for Range following the closing of its merger with Memorial Resources …

EPA Releases New Emissions Guidelines for VOCs from Oil and Gas Equipment, Well Sites

EPA Releases New Emissions Guidelines for VOCs from Oil and Gas Equipment, Well Sites

Haynes and Boone looks at new EPA guidelines

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has published new final Control Techniques Guidelines (CTGs) targeting volatile organic compound emissions from existing oil and natural gas equipment and processes in certain states and nonattainment …

Hess Moves Guyana Resource Estimate Closer to 1.4 Billion BOE

Hess Moves Guyana Resource Estimate Closer to 1.4 Billion BOE

Hess’ Liza-3 well offshore Guyana confirms a major oil discovery with breakeven below $40 per barrel

Hess Corporation (ticker: HES) released its third-quarter earnings Wednesday, reporting a loss of $1.12 per share, but the company also updated the markets on …

EQT Beefs up its Core Marcellus Acreage and will Acquire Trans Energy

EQT Beefs up its Core Marcellus Acreage and will Acquire Trans Energy

$683 million Bolt-on Acquisition adds 59,600 net acres in Wet Gas Window

EQT Corporation (ticker: EQT), announced that it would acquire 59,600 net acres and 44 MMcfe of natural gas production in two related transactions in the core Marcellus. Both …

Carrizo Oil & Gas Ups Eagle Ford Position 15%

Carrizo Oil & Gas Ups Eagle Ford Position 15%

$181 million acquisition funded through public offering

Carrizo Oil & Gas (ticker: CRZO) announced that it will purchase 15,000 acres of Eagle Ford Shale properties in LaSalle, Frio, and McMullen counties, Texas, from an affiliate of Sanchez Energy (ticker: SN) …

Chesapeake’s 25,000-Ton Monster Frac and U.S. Silica’s 19,000-Ton Sand Shipment Set Records

Chesapeake’s 25,000-Ton Monster Frac and U.S. Silica’s 19,000-Ton Sand Shipment Set Records

Monster fracs, superlaterals are here to stay

Remember when that kid you didn’t like in middle school used to tell you to ‘go pound sand’? Somebody who later became a petroleum engineer has heeded that advice and began to work …

Petrobras and Total Sign MOU for International Cooperation on Upstream and Downstream Projects

Petrobras and Total Sign MOU for International Cooperation on Upstream and Downstream Projects

Petrobras and Total partnership to focus on upstream, gas and power

The heads of Brazil’s state-owned Petrobras (ticker: PBR) and French oil major Total (ticker: TOT) announced today that the two companies signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate …

A Nine-Year High for Short Positions in U.S. Crude Oil Futures and Options

A Nine-Year High for Short Positions in U.S. Crude Oil Futures and Options

Short positions in crude oil futures and options held by producers, merchants, processors, and users (PMPU) totaled 608,261 as of October 11, 2016, according to the CFTC’s Commitments of Traders Report. The PMPU category represents futures and options contracts held …

Shell Divests Shale Assets in Western Canada for $1 Billion

Shell Divests Shale Assets in Western Canada for $1 Billion

Shell sells non-core assets to Tourmaline Oil Corp. for US$1.04 billion

Royal Dutch Shell (ticker: RDSA) announced that its Canadian subsidiary has sold approximately 206,000 net acres of oil and gas properties, three 100%-operated gas plants and 719 kilometers (447 …

Photo: Free Range Longmont -- Drilling near Mead, Colorado

Permian Drilling Continues to Push the Rig Count Higher

The U.S. added 14 more rigs to its active fleet this week

The active rig count in the United States continued to climb this week as oil prices remained above $50 per barrel. The majority of the new activity came …

Core Laboratories Believes the Recovery is Already Underway

Core Laboratories Believes the Recovery is Already Underway

Core Laboratories: the V-shaped recovery has begun

Core Laboratories (ticker: CLB) continues to call for a V-shaped recovery, with the company’s Q3 press release saying the company “believes the anticipated ‘V-shaped’ worldwide commodity recovery has begun.” Core pointed to increased …

Texas’ Top Performers by Basin

Texas’ Top Performers by Basin

Most wells testing in the top 20:  EOG leads the Eagle Ford, Pioneer leads the Midland, Cimarex leads the Delaware

KLR Group released a research note Thursday covering well data provided by the Texas Railroad Commission for the third quarter …

Source: Encana; Sound wall around DJ Basin well site rig niobrara colorado

Capital Investment Spending: The Times They are a Changin’

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again.

Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan must have been an oilman in his youth.  How could he have been so prescient to …

Halliburton Executives Lay Out E&P/Oilservice Landscape for Q4 and 2017

Halliburton Executives Lay Out E&P/Oilservice Landscape for Q4 and 2017

Halliburton: things are getting better for us and our customers

In Halliburton’s (ticker: HAL) Q3 2016 conference call today, CEO Dave Lesar characterized the business climate in Q3 for the company and gave some hints about where the industry feels …