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Energy Advisors Market Monitor Series: What’s Driving A&D?

October 6, 2025

(Oil and Gas 360) – Energy Advisors recently released its latest edition of its MarketMonitor series, Letter From Dallas, highlighting key themes driving A&D. Market conditions remain favorable to sellers with strong buyer demand from private equity firms, family offices, institutional investors, hedge funds, and well-capitalized public companies. Valuation for producing (PDP) assets is strong, while competition across the minerals

Note on the News: Eye of the Storm?

September 1, 2025

(Oil & Gas 360) – In the late winter and spring of this year, foreign policy was a major activity of the Trump Administration. The Ukraine war with Russia, the Middle East, and negotiating cease fires between India and Pakistan and between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and various trade discussions, many contentious, took focused diplomatic attention punctuated

A note on the news: Reorganizing the world

May 29, 2025

(Oil & Gas 360) – Donald Trump made a trip to the Middle East, and clearly, he is reorganizing the world. He strengthened US relations with Saudi Arabia and made commercial agreements with Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Agreements with Saudi Arabia involved large arms purchases and financial commitments by the US and Saudi Arabia with each other, and

A note on the news: “Break-even” oil prices

May 9, 2025

(Oil & Gas 360) – Over the past few weeks, several headlines regarding the international oil business have surprised market watchers: A note on the news: “Break-even” oil prices- oil and gas 360 The news that the OPEC+ group decided to increase its production rate in May by 411,000 barrels a day (b/d). The Trump Administration decision to

A note on the news: Trump’s master class

April 21, 2025

(Oil & Gas 360) – The world now awaits Trump Shock III, but has not quite understood his Liberation Day imposition of tariffs on the world, followed by a 90-day pause a week later. A note on the news: Trump’s master class- oil and gas 360 This combination is described as Trump killing free trade and then backing down, blinking,

Note on the news: Isolationist, no, populist, yes

October 28, 2024

(Oil & Gas 360) – After the fall of the Iron Curtain the Council for Foreign Relations (CFR) embraced the concept that the world would be run by a group of benign democracies forevermore as a basis for foreign policy. It was a fantasy; the world did not work out that way – it is a dangerous place with wars

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Exclusive: Hydroacoustics Executive Interview with EnerCom

August 16, 2024

Publisher’s Note: Jim Felton with EnerCom sat down with Hydroacoustics, Chief Development Officer John Benton to discuss the intriguing approach to wring out more oil from the hundreds of thousands of stripper wells in the country. Their oil recovery tool generates the greenest barrel in the business by enhancing oil recovery without any drilling or use of chemicals. For 50 years, Hydroacoustics

Exclusive: Serve Robotics Executive Interview with EnerCom

August 16, 2024

Publisher’s Note: Jim Felton with EnerCom sat down with Serve Robotics CEO Dr. Ali Kashani about what’s next for this Uber spinoff, its 10% stake taken by Nvidia and its enviable appreciation in its stock price this summer (NASDAQ SERV). Serve is surveying the energy industry for ways to take its proven ability of using AI to power robots that coexist with

Exclusive: X Oil Development Executive Interview with EnerCom

August 9, 2024

Publisher’s Note: Jim Felton with EnerCom sat down with X Oil Development, CTO, Elio Dean to discuss company updates. X Oil Development will present in person at the 2024 EnerCom Denver—The Energy Investment Conference during the Emerging Technology and Energy Transition Session presented by EnerCom at 10:05 a.m. Mountain Time on Wednesday, August 21, 2024. You can register to attend EnerCom Denver at www.enercomdenver.com. For more information on

Exclusive: Gradient Geothermal Executive Interview with EnerCom

August 9, 2024

Publisher’s Note: Jim Felton with EnerCom sat down with Gradient Geothermal, Chief Executive Officer, Ben Burke to discuss how Gradient is helping clients take heat waste coming out of the well or from processing at the surface to turn that into a value add as power generation or on-site use of thermal energy itself. Gradient Geothermal Inc, formed by the combined

UAE and LNG- Big players taking a piece of ADNOC deal

August 6, 2024

Oil and Gas 360 The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has attracted some big industry investors in its bid to challenge the U.S., Australia, and Qatar as the world’s leading LNG exporters.  Shell and fellow European energy titans TotalEnergies and BP each take 10% of Abu Dhabi’s Ruwais project; Mitsui of Japan takes another 10%. The remaining 60% will be

Exclusive: Chapman Nuclear Executive Interview with EnerCom

August 6, 2024

Publisher’s Note: Jim Felton with EnerCom sat down with Chapman Nuclear CEO John Chapman, a fourth-generation nuclear scientist focused on the hunt for natural gas needed for his hydrogen fusion reactor projects with NASA and other clients. Chapman talks about the opportunities, economics and strategy for growing the company, which includes other business sectors such as radioactive isotopes for medical use.

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