Minerals Market Growing But Needs More Scale, Consolidation

The market value of public minerals and royalties companies has doubled since 2019—but the sector needs to grow even larger to attract generalist investors into the fray, experts say.

Pembina Pipeline to Renew Share Repurchase Program

Pembina Pipeline has approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange to purchase up to 5% of its outstanding common shares.

ProPetro Adds Exxon Designee Volkov to Board

Alex Volkov is currently the transition executive tasked with planning the integration of Pioneer Natural Resources and Exxon Mobil.

MidOcean Appoints Lumens to CFO

Armand Lumens most recently served as the group CFO of Neptune Energy, where he helped develop the company’s financial and IT strategies.

TotalEnergies to Invest $400MM in LPG

TotalEnergies is investing more than $400 million into LPG to provide more than 100 million people in Africa and Asia access to clean cooking methods by 2030.

PropFlow Names David Ward as CEO

As CEO, David Ward will lead and build out PropFlow’s operations of eliminating debris from proppant at well sites in the Permian Basin and other plays.

NextDecade Raises ‘Going Concern’ Doubts Amid Rio Grande LNG FID

NextDecade, which is developing the Rio Grande LNG project in Brownsville, once again highlighted “going concerns” in its SEC 10-Q filing but says Phase 1 of its project is fully financed and under construction.

ADNOC Drilling Secures $1.7B Contract for Unconventionals Recovery

ADNOC Drilling’s new incorporated company, Turnwell Industries, will deliver a total of 144 unconventional wells, as per the contract.

Dividends Declared in the Week of May 6

Here is a selection of upstream, midstream and service and supply companies’ dividends declared in the past week.

EOG: Utica Oil Can ‘Compete with the Best Plays in America’

Oil per lateral foot in the Utica is as good as top Permian wells, EOG Resources told analysts May 3 as the company is taking the play to three-mile laterals and longer.