Northern Oil & Gas and SM Energy, which are acquiring Uinta Basin E&P XCL Resources, will acquire additional assets in the basin with the purchase of Altamont Energy, which XCL had been trying to buy.
Civitas Resources is all-in on the Permian after pumping nearly $7 billion into M&A in the basin last year. But Civitas is drilling longer wells on its legacy Colorado assets, too.
The Denver-Julesburg Basin deal, which closed July 31, marks Rising Pheonix Royalties’ first non-operated drilling acquisition.
Non-operated specialist Northern Oil & Gas (NOG) had a banner second quarter, inking its largest acquisition ever in Utah and hitting record quarterly production.
Gungnir Resources has retained EnergyNet for the sale of a non-producing interests plus 30 producing wells in Laramie and Platte counties, Wyoming.
A historic run of U.S. upstream M&A transactions continued unabated during the second quarter, according to Enverus data.
Key family offices, whose wealth developed from other industries, are filling in oil and gas investment gaps left by the flight of endowment and institutional capital from the space.
SM Energy said it intends to use the net proceeds from the notes to fund its pending $2.04 billion purchase of XCL Resources.
Private E&Ps are keeping pace with public operators in taking permits for new-drill horizontals across the Lower 48, according to a research report.
Robin Ross, who last month returned to Trio Petroleum as board chair, has been named CEO while predecessor Michael Peterson will remain as a consultant.