Tulsa midstream company ONEOK’s $2.6 billion merger with Medallion Midstream— announced in conjunction with the EnLink deal — remains pending.
Nabors Industries Ltd. will buy Parker Wellbore for 4.8 million shares of Nabors common stock and assume an additional $100 million in debt as OFS companies continue to consolidate following a massive wave of E&P M&A since 2023.
Post-acquisition of Endeavor Energy, Diamondback Energy has property in 18 West Texas counties. While analysts wait to hear what will be sold, Endeavor is up-shifting D&C efficiencies down to $625 per lateral foot.
Blake Webster, partner at Quantum Capital Group, said the private-equity firm’s portfolio teams are looking to buy from sellers looking for cash buyouts, though not necessarily in the usual places.
As private equity begins the process of recycling inventory, likely to be divested from large-scale mergers, executives acknowledged that raising funds has become increasingly difficult.
Frost Cochran, managing partner at Post Oak Energy Capital, said the private equity firm will continue to focus on the Permian Basin while making opportunistic deals as it recently did in the Haynesville Shale.
In addition to bolstering its multi-basin network, ONEOK pulled off a $5.9 billion transaction while leaving its credit rating intact.
With just half as many public E&Ps around today as there were in 2017, Kimmeridge and Managing Partner Ben Dell think the E&P space still has—and needs—plenty more M&A.
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises will focus on core business lines, including coal-to-natural gas conversions in the U.S., the company said.
Exxon Mobil has leased acreage on the Gulf Coast from the Texas General Land Office for carbon capture and storage.