Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - October 2011
Cover Story
The Western Anadarko Basin
With dozens of stacked oil, wet-gas and dry-gas formations in this corner of the midcontinent, operators have decades of new high-return, horizontal wells to drill.
Feature
Alaska: Awakening A Giant
Alaska’S Oil And Gas Sector: An Introduction
Bombs Away!
Private e&p companies are increasingly accessing the high-yield bond market to finance growth through acquisitions. Here’s why.
Cabot's Forward Curve
Dan dinges has cabot oil & gas aggressively pursuing two of america’s highest-return resource plays, with more on the horizon.
Meg Matures
This capital-intensive oil-sands company went from start-up to ipo with the help of private-equity investors who understood both the requirements and the reward.
Metrics & Drivers
Four a&d asset advisors discuss issues shaping today’s transaction marketplace.
Small-Cap Stocks To Watch
Volatile markets usually herald an exodus from stocks of smaller companies, as investors look for safe haven. But these analysts tell why some small caps remain intriguing.
The Shale Revolution Marches On
Technology and stronger oil prices are underpinning growth in north american shales.
At Closing
When In Canadian
The apoplectic, international protest of importing more crude oil from friendly Canada via TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline is a stunning contrast to what the oil and gas industry will find in Canadian, Texas.
Bright Spots
Meet Brandon Black
As vice president and general manager of BC Operating Inc. and its partnerships, Crown Oil Partners, Brandon Black oversees day-to-day operations for the Midland-based E&P.
Capital Markets
Weidner Advisors Private Capital Energy Index
The first-half 2011 Weidner Advisors Private Capital Energy Index reveals an industry expansion following a two-year contraction.
Company Briefs
Completions
Utica Awakens
If you could take the best aspects of the Marcellus and Eagle Ford shales and roll them together, what would you get?
E&P Momentum
Delaware Basin Delights
A couple of veteran Permian players were especially bullish on the Delaware Basin at this year’s annual Enercom Inc. event, The Oil & Gas Conference.
Eastern
From the Editor-in-Chief
Reaching For Utopia
Utopia. In my mind, it would include the following: a U.S. unemployment rate hovering around 2% or 3%, plentiful domestic oil and natural gas so that Americans pay less for their energy and rely less on foreign supplies, a sustainable balance between finding and development costs and profit (at $4 gas), and growing demand for all the new shale gas and oil we can—and will—produce.
Gulf Coast
International Highlights
Legends
Chatting With Charley Maxwell
Charles T. Maxwell is Weeden & Co.’s senior energy analyst, focused on the biggest international companies and macro industry trends.
MidContinent & Permian Basin
NewsWell
News Well
Outlook for more deal-making, natural gas assets turning positive
Trends & Analysis
Bridging The Buyer/Seller Gap
When trying to get a deal done, you may feel like you are on one side of a huge chasm and no one is on the other side to help you.
Canadian Heavy Crude Markets
Heavy crude is in the news, and rightly so. Global oil demand will continue to grow for the next few decades.