(BUSINESS WIRE) Swordfish Energy Holdings, LLC, announced the closing of an equity commitment from Dallas-based investment firm, Pearl Energy Investments. Based in Houston, Texas, Swordfish is an exploration and production company focused on acquiring and developing oil and gas assets in the Permian Basin. The Swordfish management team is led by Marcos Briceno and Patrick […]
VTX Energy Partners acquires additional acreage in southern Delaware Basin
VTX Energy Partners, upstream company of Vitol, said Monday it will acquire 12,000 net leasehold acres contiguous with the Delaware Basin Resources position it acquired in March. The deal brings its total southern Delaware Basin position to 47,000 net acres. VTX said it agreed to acquire assets comprised of leasehold, production and associated water infrastructure […]
Stallion Gets Re-branded
Stallion Oilfield Services announced in April its rebranding as Stallion Infrastructure Services. As a provider of workforce accommodations for the oil and gas industry, the company has made it clear that while its name has changed, its level of commitment to the sector remains steadfast. In addition to the rebrand, Stallion Infrastructure Services will be […]
Garrison Energy Holdings, new E&P company, launches in Midland
A new Midland-based exploration and production company has started with a $500 million line of equity financing from an unidentified institutional investor to pursue opportunities in Permian Basin. Garrison Energy Holdings will consider deals in Delaware and Midland basins, central basin platform and northwest shelf. Caleb Weatherl is CEO, and his father Steve is executive […]
New Mexico BLM office conducts lease sale that nets $78.8 million
New Mexico field office of Bureau of Land Management conducted a lease sale last week on 45 parcels of land in Chaves, Eddy and Lea counties in New Mexico and Cheyenne County in Kansas on public lands managed by BLM field offices for Carlsbad, Roswell and Oklahoma. BLM said 37 parcels totaling 8,596.25 acres sold […]
Western Midstream to construct gas processing plant in Loving County
Houston-based Western Midstream Partners said last week it will construct a new cryogenic natural gas processing plant in Loving County in its west Texas gathering, processing and treating complex in Delaware Basin. The proposed plant, expected to be in service by yearend 2024, will have processing capacity of 250 million cfd. Western Midstream said expansion […]
Next Bridge closes transactions to now own 100 percent interest in Orogrande
Fort Worth-based Next Bridge Hydrocarbons said last week is now owns 100 percent of working interest in the Orogrande project in Hudspeth County in west Texas on about 134,000 contiguous acres. Next Bridge closed a previously announced merger agreement with two companies (22.62 percent working interest), Wolfbone Investments and McCabe Petroleum, owned by its largest […]
Midland Basin operator HighPeak slows development plans, but maintains output
Fort Worth-based HighPeak Energy said recently it is altering its 2023 drilling and completion plans and dropping from four to two rigs next month for the remainder of 2023. HighPeak had already reduced its completion activity from four crews to two “to complete the operational DUC wells generated by the previous six-rig program.” The revised […]
Bloomberg after PDC sale: ‘U.S. energy patch ripe for takeover boom’
Chevron CEO Mike Wirth told Bloomberg this week that Monday’s announcement of the company’s acquisition of Denver-based PDC Energy “doesn’t preclude our ability to do further transactions, but we don’t have gaps to fill. We’re always looking, but we’ll stay very disciplined as we have been on a number of transactions we have done over […]
Finding a Fit
Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity across the United States surpassed an eight-year high in 2021, marking a dramatic recovery from the pandemic-led price crash in 2020. Yet, the last time oil prices were as consistently over $100 per barrel, in 2012-2014, the rig count was dramatically higher than it has been to start 2022. S&P […]