Houston-based Patterson-UTI said July 6 it has agreed to acquire San Antonio-based Pioneer Energy Services for about $295 million in stock and cash, which includes retirement of all debt of Pioneer. Transaction between the two Permian Basin operators is expected to close in 2021Q4. Patterson-UTI will add 16 super-spec drilling rigs from Pioneer to its […]

Rig counts in the top five U.S. basins were unchanged in the past week, according to the weekly report of July 9 from Baker Hughes. Permian Basin has 237 rigs (125 a year ago), Haynesville has 49 (33 a year ago), Eagle Ford has 32 (9 a year ago), Marcellus has 28 (27 a year […]

Oil companies continue to draw down their inventory of unfinished wells, according to Houston Chronicle, “as they put off new drilling to satisfy investors who want to see financial discipline after the pandemic-driven oil bust.” U.S. Energy Information Administration said as of May 2021 in seven major tight oil and natural gas shale basins there […]

St. Augustine, Fla.-based Maverick Energy, independent oil and gas exploration company, said June 21 it acquired the 167-acre Davis lease in Jones County in west Texas. The all-cash acquisition includes the Bonnie Davis #1 well that was recently drilled, logged and cased to depth of 3,150 feet with three potentially commercially productive zones. Maverick said […]

Houston-based Surge Energy said June 30 it surpassed 100 million gross barrels of oil equivalent produced since the company assumed operation of Moss Creek asset in 2016. Surge also said it has paid more than $900 million in royalty payments to mineral owners and $165 million to the State of Texas and several counties in […]

Midland-based Oryx Midstream and Houston-based Plains All American said Tuesday they are merging their assets, operations and commercial activities in the Permian Basin into a new joint venture, Plains Oryx Permian Basin. The transaction will include all of Oryx’s Permian assets and – with the exception of Plains’ long-haul pipeline systems and certain of its […]

Permian Basin, Texas and U.S. posted small gains in counts of active oil and gas drilling rigs in the past week, according to Baker Hughes. As of July 2, there were 237 rigs in Permian (236 last week, 126 last year), 222 rigs in Texas (221 last week, 112 last year) and 475 in U.S. […]

Numbers of hydraulic fracturing crews have dramatically increased in the past year, according to Bloomberg, but production in the U.S. shale patch has remained relatively flat. Citing data from Primary Vision, which has tracked fracturing crews since 2013, Bloomberg said June 22 the number of crews has increased to 235 after falling to a low […]