Kimbell Royalty Partners is acquiring oil and natural gas mineral and royalty interests in the Midland Basin in a cash-and-equity acquisition worth $231 million.
Phillips 66 will buy EPIC’s NGL assets, including a 175,000 bbl/d pipeline that links production supplies in the Delaware and Midland basins and the Eagle Ford Shale to Gulf Coast fractionation complexes.
Birch Resources has averaged 7 MMboe, 92% oil, from just 16 wells in the northern Midland Basin’s Dean Formation in an average of 15 months each, according to new Texas Railroad Commission data.
Delek Logistics continues to focus on bolstering its Permian Basin infrastructure holdings with the acquisition of Gravity Water Midstream.
Brigham Exploration is significantly adding to its Permian Basin non-operated portfolio with an acquisition of 7,000 acres from Great Western Drilling.
Freehold Royalties’ acquisition from a private seller includes around 1,300 boe/d of net production and 244,000 gross drilling acres largely operated by Exxon Mobil and Diamondback Energy.
Operators wanting to grow oil inventory organically are finding promising potential as modern drilling and completion costs have dropped while adding inventory via M&A is increasingly costly.
Delek Logistics' purchase of Permian-focused Gravity Water Midstream adds more than 200 miles of permanent pipeline and 46 saltwater disposal facilities.
Thaimar Ramirez, president and general manager for Occidental Petroleum’s Midland Basin Business Unit, said 100 days after closing the CrownRock acquisition production guidance keeps going higher.
Surge Energy’s Travis Guidry discusses the potential for $1.3 billion in Permian Basin M&A and the company’s quest to grow inventory organically.