Q&A: Exxon Mobil Pioneers the Permian and Guyana

Liam Mallon, Exxon Mobil’s upstream president, discusses how XOM liquids production has hit a 40-year high on the 25th anniversary of the Exxon-Mobil merger, and plans for the future.

December 3, 2024

Jefferies: With Permian Locked Up, E&Ps Hunt for New L48 Runway

With the core of the Permian Basin largely locked up, “intrepid operators” are hunting for runway in more nascent Lower 48 basins and in less developed Permian benches.

November 26, 2024

Expand Foresees Drilling U-Turns in Appalachia

As Expand Energy leans into its newly combined Chesapeake-Southwestern acreage, Tim Beard, the company’s vice president of drilling, would be “surprised” if Expand did not drill U-turn wells in the Appalachian Basin.

November 20, 2024

Mexico Pacific’s Saguaro: LNG’s Quicker Route to Asian Markets

Mexico Pacific’s 30-mtpa Saguaro LNG terminal promises a connection to Asia for Permian Gas that avoids the Panama Canal.

November 19, 2024

Enverus: Haynesville Has 12.5 Years of Sub-$3 NatGas Inventory

Enverus forecasts that the time left to capitalize on the Haynesville's inventory will shorten by another two years when taking into account a boom in LNG demand.

November 19, 2024

Expand Keeps Eye on Comstock’s Monster Haynesville Expansion

But while Expand Energy keeps a watchful eye on what its neighbors are doing, the current gas price is too difficult for Expand to dive into the costly far western Haynesville play itself, said Tim Beard, Expand’s vice president of drilling.

November 18, 2024

Investment Firm Aethon Explores Options for $10B US Natgas Assets, Sources Say

U.S. energy-focused investment firm Aethon Energy Management is exploring options for its natural gas production and midstream assets that include a sale or an initial public offering at a valuation of about $10 billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter said on Nov. 12.

November 13, 2024

Expand Energy: Chesapeake’s Bankruptcy to Largest Gas Producer in US

Before Expand Energy could boast itself as the largest by volume natural gas-weighted E&P in the U.S., its predecessor Chesapeake Energy had to climb out of bankruptcy. 

November 7, 2024

CEO: Range Passes On M&A Fervor For Now: ‘We Didn’t Have To’

While the rest of the E&P sector bought, merged and consolidated, Range Resources sat on the sidelines in Appalachia because it already has plenty of drilling inventory, CEO Dennis Degner says.

November 7, 2024

Analysts: A Growing Bakken Will Require a Stronger Pipeline Network

East Daley looks at potential courses as the basin continues to increase production.

November 6, 2024