ConocoPhillips: Longer Laterals Coming to Delaware Basin After Marathon Close
After closing a $17.1 billion acquisition of Marathon Oil, ConocoPhillips’ Delaware Basin leader sees opportunities to drill longer laterals and investigate secondary benches underground.
Permian Trends Continue to Point to Crude Growth
Smaller, more creative M&A deals are becoming the standard in the Permian’s Midland and Delaware basins, an Enverus analyst says.
Exclusive: Surge Energy Seeks Midland M&A with $1.3B in Dry Powder
Surge Energy is one of the largest private oil producers in the Permian Basin. With $1.3 billion in dry powder to put to work, Surge is scouring the northern Midland Basin for M&A, executive Travis Guidry told Hart Energy.
Hollub: Oxy Low Carbon Ventures Bolsters US Energy Independence
Occidental Petroleum is making a number of low-carbon moves in the Permian—a maneuver that will bolster the U.S.' energy independence, CEO Vicki Hollub told Hart Energy in an exclusive interview.
CEO: Ovintiv Passes on Permian Prices for More Montney Condensate
Rumored to be a potential buyer in the Permian Basin, Ovintiv instead struck a deal for lower-cost oil and condensate assets in Alberta’s Montney Shale.
Exxon Mobil to Cut Almost 400 Jobs in Wake of Pioneer Acquisition
A regulatory filing shows more than 90% of layoffs are at Pioneer’s former headquarters in Irving, Texas with the rest being workers in Midland.
Diamondback Touts Land, Cheap Gas to Lure Data Centers to Permian
With 65,000 land acres, cheap natural gas and an abundant produced water supply, Diamondback wants to lure power-hungry data centers to West Texas.
Proppant Suppliers Covia, Black Mountain Merge to Become Iron Oak Energy Solutions
Iron Oak Energy Solutions will supply proppant to E&P operations in basins across North America.
Diamondback Swaps Delaware Assets, Pays $238MM For TRP’s Midland Assets
After closing a $26 billion acquisition of Endeavor Energy Resources, Diamondback Energy is getting deeper in the Midland Basin through an asset swap with TRP Energy.
SM Kicks Off Dean Wildcatting With 918 Boe/d Choked IPs
Operator SM Energy is constraining IPs to not overwhelm its produced-water facilities.