Crescent to Offer $750MM in Senior Notes to Settle SilverBow Debt

Crescent Energy intends to use the proceeds to fund the cash portion of its merger with SilverBow Resources and to repay SilverBow’s outstanding debt at the time of the transaction’s closing.

Aramco to Source Shale Feed-gas from NextDecade’s RGLNG Train 4

Aramco looks to offtake LNG from NextDecade Corp.’s Rio Grande LNG Train 4 in Brownville, Texas. A move that will source feed-gas from the Permian and Eagle Ford.

By the Horns: Matador Wrangles Ameredev Deal for Delaware Scale

Matador Resources expects its enterprise value to reach $11.5 billion after acquiring Ameredev II for $1.9 billion in cash—not bad for a brand launched in 1983 with friends-and-family financing.

Exclusive: How Liberty’s ‘Improved’ Operations Transformed the Bakken’s Core

Liberty Resources II’s president and CEO Mark Pearson walks through the sale of its Bakken assets to Silver Hill Energy Partners and highlights a few M&A drivers in the play, in this Hart Energy Exclusive interview.

CPX Energy Grows in the Delaware with Farm-in, Development Agreements

CPX Energy also began spudding a three-well pad in the Wolfcamp Shale.

Sixth Street Buys Permian, Anadarko Minerals for $500MM

Oklahoma City’s Echo Minerals sold mineral and royalty acreage in the Permian and Anadarko basins to Sixth Street Partners.

Matador Resources Buys EnCap E&P Ameredev II for $1.9B

Matador Resources is expanding its Delaware Basin footprint in West Texas and New Mexico with the acquisition of EnCap-backed operator Ameredev II.

PGS, TGS Merger Receives Final Approval from UK Authorities

With regulatory conditions satisfied, PGS and TGS’ merger is expected to be complete July 1 and will establish the combined entity as a full-service geophysical data company. 

JENNMAR Expands Oil, Gas Offerings with Deal for G&R

JENNMAR is acquiring G&R Gas Services, which presents well tending, roustabout and right-of-way maintenance offerings to the oil and gas industry in Virginia.

Montney Pure-play Advantage Energy Makes $326MM Acquisition

Calgary-based Advantage Energy is acquiring undeveloped inventory and around 14,100 boe/d of production in a CAD$450 million (USD$326.77 million) deal with a private seller.