Kimbell Royalty Partners Adds to Permian Portfolio with $231MM Deal

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.

January 7, 2025

Phillips 66 Buys EPIC’s Permian NGL Midstream Assets for $2.2B

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.

January 6, 2025

Birch Resources Mows Dean Sandstone for 6.5 MMbbl in 15 Months

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.

January 6, 2025

Delek Closes $285MM Buyout of Permian’s Gravity Water Midstream

Delek Logistics continues to focus on bolstering its Permian Basin infrastructure holdings with the acquisition of Gravity Water Midstream.

January 3, 2025

Brigham Exploration Grows Permian Footprint in Non-Op Assets Deal

Brigham Exploration is significantly adding to its Permian Basin non-operated portfolio with an acquisition of 7,000 acres from Great Western Drilling.

December 17, 2024

Freehold Closes $182MM Acquisition of Midland Basin Interests

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.

December 16, 2024

Wildcatting is Back: The New Lower 48 Oil Plays

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.

December 15, 2024

Delek to Buy Permian's Gravity Water Midstream for $285MM

Delek Logistics' purchase of Permian-focused Gravity Water Midstream adds more than 200 miles of permanent pipeline and 46 saltwater disposal facilities.

December 13, 2024

Exclusive Occidental, CrownRock Merge Into Team of Overachievers

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.

December 10, 2024

Surge Energy Balancing M&A Hunt with Testing Midland’s Shallow Zones

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.

December 5, 2024