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.
Lower-than-estimated fourth-quarter oil production volumes are expected to stretch through 2023, while capex is expected to increase by over $200 million.
Tellurian Inc., which is developing the 27.6 mtpa Driftwood LNG project south of Lake Charles, produced an average of 225 MMcf/d in fourth-quarter 2022 and expects production to remain flat in 2023.
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.”
Comstock Resources is putting modern horizontals and frac jobs into the deep Bossier, long known to be a super-stocked natgas tank. It’s looking like the new recipe works.
The proposed wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico, home to vast oil and gas production, would open acreage offshore Lake Charles, La., and Galveston, Texas, for wind development.
Freeport LNG Development has achieved regulatory approval to kick-start two trains at its three-train Quintana Island liquefaction plant, eight months after a fire shuttered the plant.
In a span of about 34 days, Chesapeake has divested more than $2.82 billion in Eagle Ford assets as it makes a push toward a natural gas producing powerhouse.