Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Exclusive Interview with Russ Porter, President and CEO, Gastar Exploration

We are going to react to whatever is the best long term move for our shareholders: Porter Gastar Exploration’s President and CEO Russ Porter spoke to Oil & Gas 360®’s Angie Austin at the EnerCom conference in Denver last week. Porter talked about enhancing company liquidity, the move to a pure play producer, and STACK economics. Gastar Exploration Inc. (ticker:

Exclusive Interview with Andy Mah, President and CEO, Advantage Oil & Gas

We have chased profitability and low cost structure: Mah Advantage Oil & Gas’s President and CEO Andy Mah spoke to Oil & Gas 360®’s Angie Austin at the EnerCom conference in Denver last week. Mah talked about drilling results in the Montney, the advantages of owning and operating a gas plant, and the plans for company growth beyond 2017. Calgary-based

Exclusive Interview with Hal Chappelle, President and CEO of Alta Mesa Holdings

Alta Mesa: I look at this as a very early stage of development in the STACK Alta Mesa’s President and CEO Hal Chappelle spoke to Oil & Gas 360®’s Angie Austin at the EnerCom conference in Denver last week. Chappelle talked about his company, what their development plans look like, and the efficiencies being generated from cost cutting to optimize

Montney Player Blackbird Energy: an Exclusive Interview with CEO Garth Braun

Blackbird: looking at 2 tons per linear meter, coarser proppant, 40 stages Blackbird Energy (ticker: BBI) is a technology-focused oil and gas exploration and development company working in the liquids-rich Montney fairway at Elmworth, near Grande Prairie, Alberta. Blackbird holds a 100% working interest in 83.75 sections of highly prospective Montney rights. Blackbird Energy’s Chairman and CEO Garth Braun spoke to Oil

Exclusive Interview with David Demshur, CEO, Core Laboratories

The E&P companies that use science are going to be the surviving companies: Demshur Core Lab’s Chairman and CEO David Demshur spoke to Oil & Gas 360®’s Angie Austin at the EnerCom conference in Denver last week. Demshur talked about his company, what their E&P customers are doing, what companies he believes will survive at $40 oil, and what he believes is

Three Barrels, Great People and a Co-Mingled Sweet Spot: The Oil & Gas Conference® Panel Roundup

Chinese Oil & Gas Industry Remains a Major Player At last week’s EnerCom conference, Dr. Lei Wang, a postgraduate researcher in Petroleum Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, presented an overview of China’s crude oil and natural gas industry and discussed important ongoing energy trends in the country. China, currently the fourth largest petroleum producer in the world, is

Whiting Petroleum’s Mark Williams Looks at Bakken History and What’s Coming Next

Bakken: The Advance of Technology is What this Is Really All About Day four at the 2016 EnerCom conference featured Mark Williams, Whiting Petroleum’s SVP exploration and development, giving a historic perspective of the Bakken that showed how Whiting’s collective knowledge base has grown and developed from the beginning of the Bakken exploration phase to Whiting’s development of the play.

“We Can Fix your Fracs, We Can’t Fix your Reservoir”

Colorado School of Mines Experts Discuss Improving Fracs, Results Dr. Will Fleckenstein, Adjunct Professor of Petroleum Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, Dr. Jennifer Miskimins, Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering at CSM, and Mike Vincent of Fracwell LLC presented at EnerCom’s The Oil & Gas Conference® 21 on Thursday morning. The panel discussed emerging environmental technologies, hydraulic fracs, and

Is the Montney the Next Marcellus?

Juan Jarrah, Oil & Gas Equity Research Associate at TD Securities, and Chris Snyder, Senior Director of Environmental Risk Management for Corporate Credit Canada at CIBC spoke at The Oil & Gas Conference® 21 last week in Denver. The topic of the panel was future development of Canada’s Montney play in Alberta and British Columbia. The play has received a

2016 EnerCom Exclusive Video: Range Resources CEO Jeff Ventura

Jeff Ventura, chairman, president and CEO of Range Resources Corporation (ticker: RRC) talks to Oil & Gas 360®’s Angie Austin at the 2016 EnerCom conference about Range’s natural gas production, projected natural gas demand and supply, export markets for natural gas liquids, and Range’s upcoming closing of its $3.3 billion acquisition of Memorial Resource Development.  

Thank You for another Great EnerCom Conference

To the 100 oil and gas company presenters, industry experts, economists, market strategists, former ambassadors, and other experts who spoke to 2,100 attendees from all over the world; and to our loyal sponsors–we thank you all for making the 2016 EnerCom conference – The Oil & Gas Conference® 21 – a success. The overall positive mood around this year’s conference