Exploration and Production (E&P)

Silver Run Jumps into the Delaware with Acquisition of 89% Interest in Centennial Resources

Silver Run Jumps into the Delaware with Acquisition of 89% Interest in Centennial Resources

Former EOG CEO Mark Papa completes acquisition of Delaware Basin pure-play Centennial Resources

Silver Run Acquisition Corporation announced today that it completed its acquisition of an 89% controlling interest in Centennial Resource Production, a pure-play Delaware Basin company with 42,500 …

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API: Wells Drilled and Completed Down Only 3.7% for Q3 2016

Decline Approaches ‘Flat’, Compared to Avg. 17.3% Quarterly Declines for the Past 18 Months

Estimated oil wells drilled and completed in the third quarter of 2016 remained relatively unchanged from the previous quarter at 2,285. That is a decline of …

E&Ps with the Best Capital Yields Grow 1% Since 2014, Outperform Peers by 45%

E&Ps with the Best Capital Yields Grow 1% Since 2014, Outperform Peers by 45%

Companies Generating OCF from Cash Capex Thrive During the Downturn

With the second anniversary of the oil price downturn nearing, KLR Group decided to take a look at which companies have managed to create value in the downturn and what …

Chad Hits ExxonMobil-led Consortium with $75 Billion Fine on $819 Million in Unpaid Royalties

Chad Hits ExxonMobil-led Consortium with $75 Billion Fine on $819 Million in Unpaid Royalties

Court decision would see Exxon pay Chad nearly seven-times the country’s GDP in penalties

A court decision handed down in the African country of Chad ordered international oil major ExxonMobil (ticker: XOM) to pay 44 trillion CFA francs ($75 billion) …

They Did It – Harvest Natural Resources Exits Venezuela

They Did It – Harvest Natural Resources Exits Venezuela

After years of struggling to negotiate with Venezuela, Harvest Natural Resources exits the country

Houston-based Harvest Natural Resources (ticker: HNR) has closed its deal with private equity firm CT Energy Holding SRL for HNR’s Venezuela assets.

The closing of the …

Rigs Continue to Climb with Oil Price

Rigs Continue to Climb with Oil Price

U.S. rig count up 2

The U.S. rig count continued to rise this week as both WTI and Brent went above $50 per barrel. Both crude oil bench marks were down over 1% Friday, but Baker Hughes Industries (ticker: BHI) …

BHP Billiton: Oil is Our Highest Margin Business

BHP Billiton: Oil is Our Highest Margin Business

Mining giant BHP Billiton looks to capitalize on long-term oil market recovery —its highest margin business—with “value over volume” energy strategy

Even as oil prices fight their way back to a $50 per barrel level and mining companies like Freeport …

Resolute Adds to Permian Position with $135 Million Delaware Basin Acquisition

Resolute Adds to Permian Position with $135 Million Delaware Basin Acquisition

Resolute’s new Delaware Basin acreage producing 1,200 BOEPD

Resolute Energy (ticker: REN) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Firewheel Energy LLC, a portfolio company of EnCap Investments, to acquire 3,293 acres of oil and gas properties …

Caelus Energy Confirms Large-Scale Discovery on the North Slope of Alaska

Caelus Energy Confirms Large-Scale Discovery on the North Slope of Alaska

New find could deliver significant oil production, jobs and state revenue

Privately held Caelus Energy Alaska, LLC announced Tuesday that its subsidiary, Caelus Energy Alaska Smith Bay LLC, has made a significant light oil discovery on its Smith Bay state …

Marathon Oil Announces $235 Million Permian Divestiture

Marathon Oil Announces $235 Million Permian Divestiture

Marathon Sells CO2 and Waterflood Assets in West Texas and New Mexico

Marathon Oil Corp (ticker: MRO) announced on Monday that it has signed an agreement to sell certain non-operated CO2 and waterflood Permian assets in West Texas and New …

International Frontier Resources Announces Management Changes

International Frontier Resources Announces Management Changes

Steve Hanson appointed CEO of International Frontier Resources

Calgary-based International Frontier Resources (ticker: IFR) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a new management structure for the company. Under the new structure, President Steve Hanson has been appointed …

Anticipate 20% Decrease in Fall Borrowing Bases: Haynes and Boone Survey

Anticipate 20% Decrease in Fall Borrowing Bases: Haynes and Boone Survey

Lenders appear to have a more positive outlook on the future than borrowers

Lenders and borrowers in the oil and gas sector are all anticipating lower borrowing bases in the next round of redeterminations according to the semi-annual survey conducted

Samson Oil & Gas Ltd. Makes a Conventional Transformation: Download EnerCom Catalyst Report on SSN

Samson Oil & Gas Ltd. Makes a Conventional Transformation: Download EnerCom Catalyst Report on SSN

If all investors read are the headlines, they might believe that the only oil and gas investment opportunities existing today are in the Permian Basin, specifically the horizontal Wolfcamp plays in the Delaware Basin region. But that’s not the case.…

Chesapeake Energy Upsizes Private Placement to $1.1 Billion

Chesapeake Energy Upsizes Private Placement to $1.1 Billion

Chesapeake Energy upsizes debt offering from $850 million

Chesapeake Energy (ticker: CHK) announced last week that it has upsized its private placement to $1.1 billion from an original amount of $860 million of aggregate principal amount. The offer is for …

Big Opportunity for Canadian E&Ps

Big Opportunity for Canadian E&Ps

Big Opportunity for Canadian E&P'sCanada stands front and center as the primary trade partner to the U.S. In fact, the U.S. gets a whopping 96.4% of its natural gas imports from Canada. But the opportunities to further expand Canada’s oil and natural gas exports …

“Drill Baby Drill is the Message to Texas from OPEC” – Wolfe Research

“Drill Baby Drill is the Message to Texas from OPEC” – Wolfe Research

Is Saudi’s Market Share War Over, Is It On-Hold, or Is It Still Coming?

OPEC surprised the markets yesterday when word came out that for the first time in eight years the cartel planned to put oil production limits in …

WPX Energy: Its Clear Vision is Paying Off in the U.S.A.’s Hottest Oil Play

WPX Energy: Its Clear Vision is Paying Off in the U.S.A.’s Hottest Oil Play

An Oil & Gas 360® Exclusive Interview with WPX Energy VP of Drilling and Completions Tom Hellman

Since 2014, WPX Energy (ticker: WPX) has been neck-deep in a full speed turnaround.

Its management team has completed more than $5 billion …

Rice Energy Makes a $2.7 Billion Acquisition in the Dry Marcellus

Rice Energy Makes a $2.7 Billion Acquisition in the Dry Marcellus

Rice Energy expands dry gas Marcellus position by 85,000 net acres with Vantage Energy acquisition

Rice Energy (ticker: RICE) announced that it will acquire Vantage Energy for approximately $2.7 billion total consideration. The deal consists of $1.02 billion in cash, …

Capital Favors the Permian:  Baird 3Q Energy Strategy Survey

Capital Favors the Permian: Baird 3Q Energy Strategy Survey

Permian, SCOOP/STACK in favor

Baird’s energy research team presented the results of the firm’s 3Q16 Energy Strategy Survey in a conference call today that was hosted by Denver-based senior analyst Ethan Bellamy and New York-based senior analyst Dan Katzenberg. This …

International Frontier Resources Continues Development of Mexican Onshore Block

International Frontier Resources Continues Development of Mexican Onshore Block

International Frontier Resources expects workovers to begin this year, with first horizontal well to be drilled in the first half of 2017

International Frontier Resources (ticker: IFR) released an update on its Mexican operations Monday as the company continues the …

The Market May Not Absorb Idle Rig Fleet Until the End of 2018

The Market May Not Absorb Idle Rig Fleet Until the End of 2018

883 rigs sitting idle in the United States

Although the U.S. rig count rose in the week ended September 16, 2016, it remains 511 below where it sat at this time last year, according to information from Baker Hughes Industries

North American Rig Count Up Primarily from Gas Rigs

North American Rig Count Up Primarily from Gas Rigs

The U.S. rig count adds five this week, three of which are targeting natural gas

The number of rigs in the United States grew in the week ended September 16, 2016, according to information from Baker Hughes Industries (ticker: BHI). …

Oil and Gas Capex Set to Rise for the First Time Since 2014

Oil and Gas Capex Set to Rise for the First Time Since 2014

BMI Research forecasts 2.5% increase in oil and gas capex for 2017

The oil and gas industry is expected to increase spending next year for the first time following the crash in oil prices at the end of 2014, according …

DUCs Amok? Oil and Gas 360® Examines Dueling EIA and Bloomberg Backlog Data

DUCs Amok? Oil and Gas 360® Examines Dueling EIA and Bloomberg Backlog Data

Well Backlog a Critical Piece of the Puzzle as the Market Seeks to Predict what Happens in a Recovery

DUCs, or drilled but uncompleted wells, have been a major topic of discussion among analysts for more than a year. …

Gulf of Mexico Operators: Prepare to Present the U.S. Government with Financial Assurance Covering 100% of Decommissioning Liability for your OCS Leases

Gulf of Mexico Operators: Prepare to Present the U.S. Government with Financial Assurance Covering 100% of Decommissioning Liability for your OCS Leases

Notices from BOEM to Gulf of Mexico operators will hit mail boxes starting in November: an Oil & Gas 360® Exclusive Interview with BOEM GOM Regional Director Michael Celata – Part 3 of a Series

New, much more stringent …

Manitok Announces Successful Completion of Lithic Glauc Exploration Well in SE Alberta

Manitok Announces Successful Completion of Lithic Glauc Exploration Well in SE Alberta

Exploration Wells at Rockyford Successfully Producing, Cleanout Ongoing

Manitok Energy (ticker: MEI) announced initial production rates from a successfully drilled horizontal Lithic Glauconitic exploration well in the Rockyford area of Southeastern Alberta. The company also announced that it spud a …

Oil Up 3% Following Surprise Crude Oil Draw

Oil Up 3% Following Surprise Crude Oil Draw

Crude oil stocks fall 6.2 million barrels

Oil prices shot up more than 3% today as U.S. crude stockpiles record the third straight inventory draw for the week ended September 16, 2016. WTI was trading above $45.50 in the afternoon, …

Trending in the Utica and Marcellus:  Superlaterals

Trending in the Utica and Marcellus: Superlaterals

A detailed look into the drilling of the industry’s longest onshore lateral – an exclusive interview with Eclipse Resources’ COO Tom Liberatore, Halliburton VP Tony Angelle, and Deep Well Services’ Matt Tourigny

As oil and natural gas producers search for …

Encana Uses $1 Billion Stock Offering to Pay down Debt, Expand into Permian

Encana Uses $1 Billion Stock Offering to Pay down Debt, Expand into Permian

$1 Billion Stock Offering announced on Monday

Encana Corporation (ticker: ECA) announced today the pricing of its public offering of 107,000,000 common shares at a public offering price of USD $9.35 per share. The company’s gross proceeds totaled US$1,000,450,000. The …

Experts Predict Trouble Ahead for Gulf of Mexico Oil & Gas Operators

Experts Predict Trouble Ahead for Gulf of Mexico Oil & Gas Operators

New supplemental collateral requirements could severely damage independent Gulf of Mexico drillers, producers – Part 2

On Sept. 12, 2016, the federal government initiated big changes to its bonding requirements for the financial liability for decommissioning oil and gas assets …