Oil and Gas 360 According to a recent study of data from oil and gas wells in Texas, accounting heavy-weight Deloitte suggests that Eagle Ford and Permian Basin shale operators could generate capital efficiency gains of 19% and 23%, respectively, if they were to fully optimize their well designs. Source: Reuters The Deloitte study, entitled “Deciphering the performance puzzle in
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Tallgrass Energy receives preliminary proposal letter from Blackstone Infrastructure Partners offering to take the company private Tallgrass Energy LP (stock ticker: TGE), a midstream infrastructure company, received a non-binding preliminary proposal letter from Blackstone Infrastructure Partners (stock ticker: BX) on Tuesday, offering to acquire all of the outstanding Class A shares
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 BP sells its entire Alaskan business to Hilcorp for a total consideration of $5.6 billion BP (stock ticker: BP), through its subsidiary BP Alaska, has agreed to sell its entire business in the state to Hilcorp Alaska, a subsidiary of Hilcorp Energy Company, for a total consideration of $5.6 billion. Under
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Paul F. Blanchard Jr. steps down as president, CEO and director of Panhandle Oil and Gas Panhandle Oil and Gas (stock ticker: PHX), a mineral and leasehold acreage-focused capital allocator, has announced that Paul F Blanchard Jr., the company’s president, chief operating officer and a member of its board of directors,
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Qatar Petroleum signs agreement to farm Total-held exploration acreage in Namibia, Guyana and Kenya Qatar Petroleum (QP), Qatar’s state-owned energy company, has signed an agreement with French supermajor Total SA (stock ticker: TOT), under which the company will farm into Total-held exploration acreage in Namibia, Guyana and Kenya. With regards to
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Genscape will become a part of Verisk subsidiary Wood Mackenzie Verisk (stock ticker: VRSK), a data analytics provider headquartered in New Jersey, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Genscape, a provider of real-time data for commodity markets, from Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) for $364 million in cash. As
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 ExxonMobil partners with Mosaic Materials in order to pursue carbon capture technology ExxonMobil (stock ticker: XOM), an international oil and gas supermajor, has partnered with Mosaic Materials, a chemicals and engineering company, in order to explore and advance technology that can be used to remove carbon dioxide from emissions sources. The
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 PDC Energy to acquire SRC Energy in all-stock transaction valued at approximately $1.7 billion PDC Energy Inc. (stock ticker: PDCE), an independent E&P based out of Denver, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SRC Energy Inc. (stock ticker: SRCI), also located in Denver, in an all-stock transaction valued at
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Enerflex names Sanjay Bishnoi as senior vice president and CFO, David Izett as senior vice president and general counsel Enerflex Ltd. (stock ticker: ENRFF), a Calgary-based oilfield service company, has appointed Sanjay Bishnoi as senior vice president and chief financial officer, and David H. Izett as senior vice president and general
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Casillas Petroleum Resource Partners and Energy Water Services team up to form Woody Creek Midstream Casillas Petroleum Resource Partners LLC, a portfolio company of Kayne Anderson Energy Funds, and Energy Water Services LLC, a water infrastructure company owned by Halmos Capital Partners, have entered into a partnership in order to jointly
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Borr Drilling board of directors recommends appointment of Paal Kibsgaard as chairman The board of directors for Borr Drilling Limited (stock ticker: BORR), an international drilling contractor based out of Bermuda, has recommended former Schlumberger (stock ticker: SLB) CEO Paal Kibsgaard be appointed as the company’s new chairman, following a unanimous
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Drillinginfo changes corporate name to Enverus Drillinginfo, an energy SaaS and data analytics company, is officially changing its corporate name to Enverus, marking both the company’s 20th anniversary and its achievement of surpassing $300 million in annual recurring revenue. According to an Enverus press release, the new name is comprised of
