Price volatility has stymied reported plans by a unit of Tokyo Gas Co Ltd. to acquire Rockcliff Energy from private equity firm Quantum Energy Partners.
Also in this week's A&D Minute: Aramco completed its acquisition of Valvoline's global products business for $2.65 billion and pipeline operator Enbridge acquired a 5-Bcf salt cavern storage facility in Texas for $335 million.
Here’s a snapshot of recent energy deals including Carrier Energy Partners' exit from the Eagle Ford Shale and Equinor's purchase of Suncor Energy's U.K. business for $850 million.
Carrier Energy’s Eagle Ford Shale Divestment closes out the company’s interests in the play and represents a sale of the company’s remaining assets, which previously included Permian Basin holdings.
Baytex Energy’s acquisition of Ranger Oil Corp. is financially accretive and adds much-needed inventory, but analysts and investors have questions about the $2.5 billion deal.
Also in this week's A&D Minute: Chesapeake got a "much better deal" in its second Eagle Ford divestiture of the year and Quantum Energy dipped its toe in the D-J Basin.
The South Texas Eagle Ford Shale’s emergence as an M&A hot spot in late 2022 highlights the play’s market potential this year.
Paradigm will sell three midstream gathering systems serving the Bakken, and another in the Eagle Ford, to Hilcorp-affiliate Harvest.
The deal is the latest Eagle Ford transaction following months of multi-billion dollar M&A by Marathon Oil, Devon Energy and, most recently, Chesapeake Energy.
INEOS Energy Chairman Brian Gilvary told Hart Energy the $1.4 billion Chesapeake acquisition adds “good, economic barrels to add to [the company’s] portfolio.”