Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - April 2014
Cover Story
The Williston Basin
Bakken and Three Forks producers are changing up their completion techniques in some parts of the 1-million-barrel-per-day basin and considering future pay from yet other zones.
Feature
Beyond The Audit
As oil and gas companies continue to grow, accounting firms have gone from being service providers to partners.
Encana Drills Deep In Search Of High-Return Liquids
We constructed composite type curves based on limited reported activity from Encana’s wells to demonstrate the effect of these high drilling and completion costs on the economic viability of each play.
Private Outlook
Private-equity-backed E&Ps are building new oil plays amid heated competition with public models.
Restructuring Buyside Advisory
Some investment decisions, however, suffer from a lack of adequate insight and intelligence that would be afforded by more experienced boots on the ground.
Retooling Chesapeake
Doug Lawler took the helm of Chesapeake Energy Corp. determined to drive value creation through tighter financial control, focus on core exploration and competitive capital allocation.
Trading Places
Policymakers must weigh the oil industry's campaign for an end to 40 years of crude export restrictions against a national mindset of energy insecurity.
At Closing
Bright Spots
Cumming Discusses Entrepreneurship
Kevin Cumming and Jim Goddard founded Expedition Water Solutions Inc. in December 2013.
Capital Markets
Completions
E&P Momentum
From the Editor-in-Chief
The Cost Of High Costs
Investors and CEOs are questioning the high cost of high costs.
Legends
Engineer Discusses Industry Problems, Solutions
George King began his engineering career as soon as he could walk and take things apart.