Mergers & Acquisitions

Halliburton + Baker Hughes Merger Hits Skids

Halliburton + Baker Hughes Merger Hits Skids

United States, Australia U.S. Department of Justice Still Not Satisfied with Terms

Industry enthusiasts waiting for approval of the impending merger between Halliburton (ticker: HAL) and Baker Hughes (ticker: BHI) will have to wait a little longer.

For the third …

Source: XOM

M&A Deal Value Down 23.8% in Oil and Gas, Up 55.1% in Overall U.S. M&A

Lower commodity prices reduce size and volume of energy M&A in 2015

Lower prices for crude oil and natural gas reduced the average deal size and the volume of mergers and acquisitions in the oil and gas industry in 2015. …

Repsol, Statoil Announce Asset Swap Involving Eagle Ford and Norway Positions

Repsol, Statoil Announce Asset Swap Involving Eagle Ford and Norway Positions

No oil and gas companies were in attendance for Major League Baseball’s winter meetings (baseball’s equivalent of Christmas with its free agent signings, discussions, swaps and trades), but two industry giants independently agreed to a swap of their own on …

Questions Surround Dow, DuPont $130 Billion Merger Idea

From Reuters

A potential marriage of chemicals titans Dow Chemical and DuPont would draw intense scrutiny from regulators in the United States and other countries, but Wall Street welcomed the reported merger talks, lifting shares of both companies by 12

December 10, 2015 - 10:51 am Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Mergers & Acquisitions
Devon Energy, EnLink Midstream Team Up for $4 Billion Acquisition from Private Companies

Devon Energy, EnLink Midstream Team Up for $4 Billion Acquisition from Private Companies

CEO Hager: STACK is “the best emerging development play in North America”

Devon’s STACK position has grown by more than 150,000 net acres in recent months

Devon Energy (ticker: DVN) has secured the strongest foothold in the Cana-Woodford, pro forma …

Report: Devon Energy in Acquisition Talks, Would Become Cana-Woodford’s Dominant Operator

Report: Devon Energy in Acquisition Talks, Would Become Cana-Woodford’s Dominant Operator

Sources Say Deal for Felix Energy LLC would be for about $2 Billion, Including Debt

Devon Energy (ticker: DVN) is in pursuit of privately held Felix Energy LLC, according to a report from Reuters on December 3, 2015. Devon supposedly …

TRC Completes $130 Million Acquisition of Willbros Professional Services

TRC Completes $130 Million Acquisition of Willbros Professional Services

Majority of the proceeds will be used to pay down Willbros debt

TRC Companies (ticker: TRR), an engineering, environmental consulting and construction management service company, announced yesterday that it has completed its acquisition of the Professional Services business segment of …

Alaska’s $64.6 Million Purchase of TransCanada’s Interest in Alaska LNG is State’s “Number-One Get Well Card”

Alaska’s $64.6 Million Purchase of TransCanada’s Interest in Alaska LNG is State’s “Number-One Get Well Card”

Alaska hopes to make $400 million more per year after buying TransCanada’s share of the project

Last week Alaska Governor Bill Walker said that the decision to purchase TransCanada’s share of the project was the “number-one get-well card” for Alaska’s …

Resolute Energy Enhances Balance Sheet with $177.5 Million Non-core Asset Sale

Resolute Energy Enhances Balance Sheet with $177.5 Million Non-core Asset Sale

2015 Asset Sales to Date Reach $275 Million

Resolute Energy (ticker: REN) has agreed to sell its Gardendale assets for $177.5 million, concluding a “limited marketing process” that began in late September. The buyer was not named.

The company has …

Energy Transfer Partners Completes Dropdown of Remaining Retail Business for $2.2 Billion

Energy Transfer Partners Completes Dropdown of Remaining Retail Business for $2.2 Billion

Latest dropdown brings total transactions to $5.7 billion in just over a year

Energy Transfer Partners (ticker: ETP) announced the dropdown of its remaining retail business to Sunoco LP (ticker: SUN) for total consideration of $2.226 billion. Energy Transfer Partners’ …

Anadarko Retracts its Offer for Apache

Anadarko Retracts its Offer for Apache

Signs point to Anadarko offer coming in well below what Apache would consider

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (ticker: APC) announced today that it will retract its unsolicited offer for an all-stock purchase of Apache Corp. (ticker: APA). Anadarko Chairman, President and …

Callon Petroleum Tacks on Permian Basin Acreage

Callon Petroleum Tacks on Permian Basin Acreage

Update: Pricing Announced

Callon Petroleum (ticker: CPE) upsized its stock offering one day after its original announcement, increasing the total to 12.0 million shares with a greenshoe of 1.8 million additional shares. The first round of stock offerings is expected …

Apache Corp. Rejects $18 Billion Takeover Bid: Bloomberg

Apache Corp. Rejects $18 Billion Takeover Bid: Bloomberg

Latest action from energy M&A front line

Apache Corporation (ticker: APA) rejected an unsolicited bid of $18 billion over the weekend, according to a report from Bloomberg. Apache has not commented on the report, but the company is said to …

Canadian Natural Resources and PrairieSky Form the Largest Royalty Position in Canada

Canadian Natural Resources and PrairieSky Form the Largest Royalty Position in Canada

PrairieSky to purchase Canadian Natural assets for C$1.8 billion

Canadian oil major Canadian Natural Resources (ticker: CNQ) announced today that PrairieSky Royalty (ticker: PSK) will purchase assets from CNR to for the largest fee simple mineral title and royalty positions …

Western Refining Pitches $2.56 Billion Buyout Offer for Northern Tier Energy

Western Refining Pitches $2.56 Billion Buyout Offer for Northern Tier Energy

Purchased First NTI Stake in 2013

Western Refining (ticker: WNR) is attempting to enhance its Midwest footprint, proposing a $2.56 billion buyout deal of Northern Tier Energy LP (ticker: NTI). WNR already owns 100% of the partnership and 38% of …

Source: Energy.gov

Duke Energy Acquires Piedmont for Total Consideration of $6.7 Billion

Duke gains 1 million new customers in Piedmont acquisition

North Carolina based Duke Energy (ticker: DUK) announced that it will acquire Piedmont Natural Gas (ticker: PDM) for $4.9 billion in cash, and assume Piedmont’s $1.8 billion in debt, for total …

October 26, 2015 - 3:33 pm Mergers & Acquisitions, Oil and Gas 360 Articles
Exelon Moving Forward with $6.8 Billion Merger

Exelon Moving Forward with $6.8 Billion Merger

Combined Exelon, Pepco utility will have the largest customer base in the U.S.

Support from District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser for the merger of Exelon (ticker: EXC) and Pepco Holding Inc. (ticker: POM) utilities may push the $6.8 billion …

October 21, 2015 - 12:24 pm Mergers & Acquisitions, Oil and Gas 360 Articles
Kinder Morgan Acquires Interests in 15 BP plc Terminals for $350 Million

Kinder Morgan Acquires Interests in 15 BP plc Terminals for $350 Million

Kinder Morgan (ticker: KMI), the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, is adding to its footprint.

On October 20, 2015, KMI announced a joint venture agreement with a subsidiary of BP plc (ticker: BP) for 15 terminals at a …

Halliburton Provides Market Insight in Q3’15 Release

Halliburton Provides Market Insight in Q3’15 Release

In its Q3’15 results, management of Halliburton (ticker: HAL) was more upbeat about a market recovery than its competitor Schlumberger (ticker: SLB), but warned market difficulties are likely to continue through at least the remainder of 2015.

“Looking ahead to …

Private Equity Group Snatches Occidental’s Bakken Assets for $500 Million: Reuters

Private Equity Group Snatches Occidental’s Bakken Assets for $500 Million: Reuters

Reuters reports that Occidental Petroleum (ticker: OXY) is leaving the Williston Basin, announcing a $500 million sale with Lime Rock Resources for its 303,000 net acres. The deal, if finalized, equates to just $1,650 per net acre, roughly half of …

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Armstrong Oil & Gas Defies Industry Bears, Boosts Stake in Alaska with $800 Million Transaction

Repsol Sells Portion of Interest, Dials Back Development Plans

Armstrong Oil & Gas, a private exploration and production company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, is backing up its optimism for hydrocarbon production in Alaska.

eia-alaska2On October 13, 2015, the company increased …

ORLEN Upstream Acquires US$393 Million in Assets in Canada, Poland

ORLEN Upstream Acquires US$393 Million in Assets in Canada, Poland

Warsaw-based ORLEN announces two acquisitions

ORLEN Upstream, a Warsaw, Poland, based subsidiary of PKN ORLEN SA (ticker: PKN), which trades on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, announced two separate acquisitions today for assets in Canada and Poland. The deals included the …

Encana Oil & Gas Exits DJ Basin in $900 Million Asset Sale

Encana Oil & Gas Exits DJ Basin in $900 Million Asset Sale

Expects 2015 Net Debt to be Reduced by $3.0 Billion – 50% higher than expected.

Calgary-based Encana Corporation (ticker: ECA) is leaving behind its second United States shale play since August, selling its Denver Julesburg assets for $900 million. …

RSP Permian Raising Equity for the Sixth Time since 2014’s IPO

RSP Permian Raising Equity for the Sixth Time since 2014’s IPO

RSP Permian (ticker: RSPP), a Permian pure-play with more than 47,000 acres in West Texas, has signed a letter of intent to increase its footprint by about 4,100 net acres for an aggregate purchase price of $137 million. The agreement, …

Source: WPX

Vanguard Natural Resources Closing in on $1.1 Billion in Acquisitions

Vanguard closes on LRR Energy for $541 million

Vanguard Natural Resources (ticker: VNR) announced today the closing of the previously announced deal to acquire LRR Energy. According to the company’s press release, a subsidiary of Vanguard merged into LRR …

October 7, 2015 - 5:47 pm Mergers & Acquisitions, MLPs, Oil and Gas 360 Articles
UPDATE: Canadian Oil Sands Board Rejects Suncor’s $5 Billion Hostile Takeover Attempt

UPDATE: Canadian Oil Sands Board Rejects Suncor’s $5 Billion Hostile Takeover Attempt

COS Counters SU Offer by Adopting Shareholder Rights Plan

The board of Canadian Oil Sands (ticker: COS) turned down a $5 billion offer from Suncor (ticker: SU) two days after its initial proposal, offering a shareholder rights program and providing …

EnLink Completes Acquisition

EnLink Completes Acquisition

EnLink Midstream Completes Acquisition of Delaware Basin Assets

DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The EnLink Midstream companies, EnLink Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE:ENLK) (the Partnership) and EnLink Midstream, LLC (NYSE:ENLC) (the General Partner) (together with its subsidiaries “EnLink”), today announced that a subsidiary …

October 2, 2015 - 5:22 pm Mergers & Acquisitions, Midstream, MLPs
EV Energy Partners Closes on Acquisitions

EV Energy Partners Closes on Acquisitions

EV Energy Partners Announces Closing of Appalachian Basin, San Juan Basin, Michigan and Austin Chalk Acquisitions

HOUSTON, Oct. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — EV Energy Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ: EVEP) today announced it has closed four previously announced acquisitions purchased …

October 2, 2015 - 5:19 pm Mergers & Acquisitions, Midstream, MLPs
Energy Transfer Finally Locks Down Deal for Williams Companies at $37.7 Billion

Energy Transfer Finally Locks Down Deal for Williams Companies at $37.7 Billion

ETE Becomes Largest Energy Infrastructure Group

Enterprise Value Now Exceeds that of BP, Total and Petrobras

Energy Transfer Equity’s (ticker: ETE) long pursuit of Williams Companies (ticker: WMB) has come to an end.

On September 28, 2015, ETE announced the …

September 28, 2015 - 7:03 pm Downstream, Mergers & Acquisitions, MLPs, Oil and Gas 360 Articles
Sanchez Production Partners Acquires Eagle Ford Midstream Assets for $345 Million

Sanchez Production Partners Acquires Eagle Ford Midstream Assets for $345 Million

Sanchez Production Partners (ticker: SPP), a midstream-focused Master Limited Partnership, increased its footprint in the Eagle Ford with a $345 million cash acquisition announced on September 28, 2015. The assets, purchased from Sanchez Energy Corporation (ticker: SN) consist of 150 …

September 28, 2015 - 6:47 pm Analytics, Mergers & Acquisitions, MLPs, Oil and Gas 360 Articles