Growth in rig count and production is slowing amid rising costs in oil and gas industry.  Baker Hughes said as of May 13 there were 335 rigs in Permian Basin (unchanged in past week, up 104 in past year), 345 in Texas (up 1 in past week, up 129 in past year), 98 in New […]

Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy is opening a first-of-its-kind mobile sand mine on 15,000 acres of land it acquired in Loving County in 2018.  Sand from the mine will be integrated into operations beginning in Q2 to save Devon up to $200,000 per well and meet 25 percent of its Delaware Basin sand needs this year.  […]

Denver-based Continental Resources said recently it acquired bolt-on acreage believed to be about 15,000 acres in Ward and Winkler counties in Delaware Basin for $200 million cash.  Continental allocated $100 million to $125 million for capex for the acquired acres as part of a 2022 budget increase.  The acquisition is adjacent to acreage where Continental […]

Midland-based Diamondback Energy said May 2 it acquired assets from an undisclosed seller for $230 million.  The 6,200 net acres in Ward County in Delaware Basin had 2022Q1 production of 2,300 boed with an estimated 58 horizontal locations (43 net) and laterals averaging more than 10,300 feet.  Enverus said the seller was Permian pure play […]

Houston-based Aris Water Solutions said last week it has a long-term, full-cycle water management agreement with Chevron in the Permian Basin.  Aris will provide produced water handling and recycling services in parts of Chevron’s core position in Eddy and Lea counties in New Mexico and Culberson and Reeves counties in Texas.  The agreement will facilitate […]

Midland’s Diamondback Energy and Rattler Midstream said Monday they reached a merger agreement for Diamondback to acquire all publicly held common units in Rattler for $575 million in stock.  The deal comes three years after the midstream partnership’s $765 million IPO.  Each public unitholder of Rattler will receive 0.113 of a Diamondback common share for […]

Moriarty, N.M.-based Sceye said it is testing a helium airship to detect and measure oilfield emissions in a partnership with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and New Mexico’s departments of environment and economic development.  The airship hovers 65,000 feet above earth equipped with spectral imagers and laser sensors that Sceye said can scan emissions within a […]

Houston-based ConocoPhillips reported last week increased production in 2022Q1 as it continues to integrate and optimize recently acquired Permian Basin assets.  The record production of 1,747,000 boed (220,000 above 2021Q1) in Q1 included 967,000 boed in lower 48 and 640,000 boed in Permian Basin.  Q2 production is expected to be 1.67 to 1.73 million boed, […]

For the first time since March 2020, Baker Hughes reported a count of active oil and gas drilling rigs of at least 700 in U.S.  As of May 6, there were 335 rigs in Permian Basin (unchanged in past week, up 106 in past year), 344 in Texas (down 1 in past week, up 127 […]

Owners of Whistler pipeline said last week it will be expanded through the installation of three compressor stations.  The new stations will increase mainline capacity from 2.0 billion cfd to about 2.5 billion cfd and be in service by September 2023.  Whistler is owned by a consortium of MPLX, WhiteWater, and a joint venture of […]