Prairie Operating closed an acquisition of acreage and production in Weld County, Colorado, where the D-J Basin player is drilling its first Niobrara horizontals. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Ovintiv is marketing assets in the Permian Basin amidst rumors that the Denver-based E&P is looking to join in on the M&A frenzy. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
The acquisition of Tall Oak Midstream III balances Summit Midstream’s crude and natural gas commodity exposure in preparation for high natural gas demand in the coming years, Summit Midstream CEO Heath Deneke said. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
Diamondback Energy’s Viper Energy closed the last of three acquisitions from Tumbleweed Royalty, owned by Double Eagle Energy’s founders, that together totaled about $1.1 billion. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
This July, the new UK Labour Government came into office promising to ‘take the brakes off Britain’ and unlock a new era of economic prosperity. Yet, as Energy in Depth has previously explained, under current UK government plans the oil and gas industry is set to be burdened with another tax increase, which industry groups
Overblown assumptions related to gas stoves causing increased cases of pediatric asthma have plagued medical journals and top-tier media reporting in recent years. These studies often rely on assumption-heavy risk models to create causation, rather than empirical data connecting the two. A recent Cox Associates study that was funded, in part, by the American Gas
Move over EQT Corporation, there’s a new number one natural gas producer in the U.S. Yesterday, Chesapeake Energy announced that its buyout of and merger with Southwestern Energy in a $7.4 billion deal was completed. The newly merged company was renamed Expand Energy Corporation and will begin trading on the NASDAQ stock market today under…
EQT Corporation is now the #2 largest natural gas driller in the U.S. following the merger of Chesapeake Energy with Southwestern Energy to form Expand Energy Corporation (see today’s lead story). EQT took the opportunity yesterday, while everyone was focused on the shiny new object (Expand Energy), to file a Form 8-K with the SEC…
We spotted a press release about new leadership at the top of Calpine Corporation, one of the largest power producers in the U.S. with major assets in the upper East Coast area (fed by Marcellus/Utica molecules). The company’s CFO, Andrew Novotny, is becoming the CEO. Beyond the tie-in with the M-U because the company uses…
Two oilfield services companies—Axis Energy Services LLC and Brigade Energy Services LLC—jointly announced the closing of an agreement to merge and form the nation’s largest well servicing company. The new company will retain the Axis Energy name and will remain headquartered in Dallas, TX. According to Axis, the transaction creates the nation’s leading company for…
In September 2023, Dominion Energy and Enbridge co-announced that Dominion had agreed to sell the company’s remaining natural gas local distribution companies (LDCs) that Dominion owns to Enbridge for $14.0 billion, which includes $9.4 billion in cash plus the assumption of debt (see Dominion Energy Loses Mind – Sells Remaining LDC NatGas Businesses). The deal…
Air Products’ sale of its LNG process technology and equipment business to Honeywell will allow the company to focus on its industrial gases and hydrogen businesses. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
The oily western Uinta features layers of sedimentary deposits on view for visitors, mostly uninterrupted by man-made features but having an unseen pall of federal interference. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
APA Corp. and TotalEnergies announced a $10.5 billion final investment decision for the GranMorgu project located offshore Suriname in Block 58. First production to come from a 220,000 bbl/d FPSO is slated to flow in 2028. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.
With the deal’s closing, Enbridge said the company is, by volume, the largest gas utility in North America, delivering 9 Bcf/d of natural gas to a base of about 7 million customers. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.