Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - July 2017
Cover Story
Working Over The Oilfield Service Sector
The extended global downturn took the oil and gas service sector below the economic waterline for two long years. As pricing optics improve, executives from two of the world’s largest service providers discuss lessons learned and where we’re going from here.
Feature
Deepwater Renaissance?
The answer depends on several factors, according to some of the first international oil companies to join Mexico’s offshore sector, post-reform. Rock quality and dollars are part of the equation.
Eagle Ford: A Giant Awakens
Start-ups, majors and longtime players are back as the rig count and M&A action pick up in the Eagle Ford Shale.
Energy’s New Reality
At the University of Oklahoma’s annual Energy Symposium, big thinkers highlighted new challenges oil and gas leaders will encounter as the industry recovers.
Reuniting Jonah
With private equity backing, Jonah Energy LLC has consolidated a famous field that competes at current natural gas prices.
The Easy Way Out For Delaware Gas
As operators focus on extracting the rich reservoirs of oil offered by the southern Delaware Basin, EagleClaw Midstream Ventures LLC is building a system to capture and monetize the gas.
The Innovation Investment Club
Four large independents have invested in a private equity fund to explore new oilfield technologies.
To The Caribbean With Gas
With the patents secured and a final investment decision near, Forrest Hoglund opens up about his new business.
A&D Trends
The Haynesville Ground Game
Like the Haynesville Shale itself, Goodrich Petroleum Corp. appears to be reclaiming its identity, recently adding 2,200 net acres in DeSoto Parish, La., in the increasingly competitive gas play.
At Closing
Summer Blockbusters
At this time of year, media outlets publish their annual list of summer movie blockbusters coming to a theater near you, thoughtful or quirky art flicks for those who want to do a little thinking, and juicy beach reads for those who do not.
Bright Spots
Meet Kyle Derham
At the beginning of 2014, Kyle Derham joined Rice Energy at an active and exciting time. The company IPOed that January when he signed on as vice president of finance. During his first year at Rice, the company issued more equity to finance an acquisition, executed its inaugural bond offering, and then took Rice’s midstream as-sets public through a master limited partnership.
E&P Momentum
Completion Growing pains
Got your frack crews lined up?
If not, grab a ticket and get in line. Spot market waits are well beyond 90 days and, in some cases, now extend into 2018, especially for smaller oil and gas operators finding that bigger players have locked up a majority of new stimulation capacity.
From the Editor-in-Chief
Apache's New Stripes
Apache Corp. is out of the acquisitions business. And that astounding news comes from the company’s vice president of business development, Tom Yelich.
On the Money
The Long View—Or Path To Nowhere
There’s no shortage of pessimism going around. Such has been the resilience of U.S. unconventional production that a not uncommon view is crude oil prices are likely to be range-bound or under pressure in the near to mid-term.
Trends & Analysis
Don’t Count The Uinta out
On May 24, independent producer EP Energy Corp. and refining giant Tesoro Corp. announced a joint venture (JV) that will be focused on oil and natural gas development in EP’s Altamont area in the Uinta Basin.