From Reuters Spot power prices in Texas almost tripled for Tuesday on forecasts demand for electricity would hit record levels over the next week as consumers crank up their air conditioners to escape a heat wave blanketing much of the state. High temperatures in Houston, the biggest city in the Lone Star State, were expected to reach almost 100 degrees
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 SCM Crude LLC to solicit binding commitments for interstate gathering and transportation SCM Crude LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Salt Creek Midstream LLC, will begin to solicit binding commitments for priority crude oil interstate gathering and transportation services as part of an open season for its Delaware Basin midstream infrastructure. The
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Alliance Resource Partners Acquires $145 million worth of Permian mineral interests from Wing Resources Alliance Resource Partners L.P. (stock ticker: ARLP), a diversified natural resource company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has completed its previously announced acquisition of oil and gas mineral interests in the Permian Basin from Wing Resources LLC and
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Texas Standard Oil LLC Texas Standard Oil LLC is a private Midland, Texas-based oil company focused on acquiring oil and gas leaseholds in the Wolfcamp shale play of the Permian Basin. Co-founded in 2001 by Timothy M. Roberson and Charles A. Sharman, Texas Standard Oil now holds approximately 21,000 net acres
From Reuters Weaker second-quarter refining and chemicals profits offset surging U.S. shale production at U.S. oil majors Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) and Chevron Corp (CVX.N), the two reported on Friday. Exxon’s topped analysts’ reduced estimates for the quarter but net fell 21% from a year earlier, its third quarter in a row of weaker year-over-year profit, despite a near doubling
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Occidental Petroleum and Ecopetrol S.A. form joint venture in the Midland Basin Occidental Petroleum Corporation (stock ticker: OXY), the fourth largest public E&P by market capitalization, has formed a joint venture (JV) with Colombia-based Ecopetrol S.A. (stock ticker: EC) to develop 97,000 net acres of Occidental’s Midland Basin properties, subject to
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Concho Resources and Solaris Water Midstream team up for produced water management in the northern Delaware Basin Concho Resources (stock ticker: CXO), a Permian-focused unconventional shale producer, has formed a strategic joint venture (JV) with Solaris Water Midstream, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Solaris Midstream Holdings LLC. The partnership between the two
From The Houston Chronicle Occidental Petroleum reported a $635 million quarterly profit that dipped 25 percent from the year prior, but the focus still remains on Oxy’s $38 billion acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum that could close in August. Houston-based Oxy said it plans to close the Anadarko deal next week after the scheduled Aug. 8 vote of Anadarko shareholders to
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Altus Midstream closes purchase of 33% equity stake in Enterprise-owned Shin Oak Pipeline Altus Midstream (stock ticker: ALTM), a pure-play Permian-to-Gulf Coast midstream company, has closed a deal with Enterprise Products Partners (stock ticker: EPD) to acquire a 33% equity interest in the Enterprise subsidiary that owns the Shin Oak natural
From Reuters Occidental Petroleum Corp, which is battling activist investor Carl Icahn over its $38 billion purchase of Anadarko Petroleum, reported a 14% fall in core profit on Wednesday, as higher crude prices and volumes were offset by adjustments to derivatives contracts and lower natural gas prices. Core income fell to $729 million, or 97 cents per share, in the
From Reuters Seven years ago, Diamondback Energy Inc went public with a modest parcel of drillable land in the Permian Basin of West Texas. Like dozens of other Permian startups, the firm then pursued a classic wildcatter’s strategy – borrowing to buy up acreage, acquire competitors and quickly boost output in the booming shale field. Today, Diamondback (FANG.O) is the
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Lime Rock Resources purchases 350,000 net surface acres of overriding royalty interests from Range Resources Corporation Lime Rock Resources, the E&P arm of private equity firm Lime Rock Partners, has closed on the acquisition of a non-operated overriding royalty interest (ORRI) in 350,000 net surface acres of the Marcellus shale, representing
