U.S. Energy Development Corp. is planning to spend up to $1 billion across the Lower 48 this year, with most budgeted for the Permian Basin.
Upstream M&A hit a high of $105 billion in 2024 even as deal values declined in the fourth quarter with just $9.6 billion in announced transactions.
In the Haynesville, Delaware and Utica, Post Oak Energy Capital is supporting companies determined to make a profitable footprint.
Drilled but uncompleted (DUC) gas wells that totaled some 500 into September 2024 have declined to just under 400, according to a J.P. Morgan Securities analysis of Enverus data.
Gordon Huddleston, president and partner of Aethon Energy, talks about well costs in the western Haynesville, prepping for LNG and AI power demand and the company’s readiness for an IPO— if the conditions are right.
Aethon Energy’s western Haynesville gas wells produced nearly 34 Bcf in the first 11 months of 2024, according to the latest Texas Railroad Commission data.
A winter storm along the Gulf Coast had ERCOT under strain and ports waiting out freezing temperatures before reopening.
Bernstein Research’s team expects U.S. gas demand will grow from some 120 Bcf/d currently to 150 Bcf/d into 2030 as new AI data centers and LNG export trains come online.
For oil and gas, big M&A deals will probably encounter less resistance, tariffs could be a threat and the industry will likely shrug off “drill, baby, drill” entreaties.
Rising electrical demand may finally push natural gas demand to catch up with production.