Asset/portfolio management
Corporate consolidation and foreign buyers helped drive $38 billion in upstream deals in the first quarter of 2026.
The companies will work together to increase future production and value creation at their respective assets in the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
The top three bidders in the latest lease sale by the US federal government paid a combined $3.9 billion.
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The acquisition will add water infrastructure in both the Midland Basin of west Texas and the Williston in North Dakota. -
The environmental impact statement is a required step before another lease sale can be held in the Gulf of Mexico, a move welcomed by the oil and gas industry.
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This article examines how decommissioning costs impact project viability, showing that operational profitability can mask uneconomic end-of-life obligations, and advocates for ethical diligence in assessing these costs.
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This year’s selection clearly shows where the interest lies in the economics, the Petroleum Resources Management System, and management decision-making.
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At SPE’s Permian Basin Energy Conference, operators shared behind-the-scenes details on innovations such as drilling horseshoe wells and trimulfrac completions along with in-basin challenges such as handling produced water.
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The new partnership assets include pipelines in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia serving the Marcellus and Utica shales.
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The deal expands ONEOK’s gas transmission and processing footprint in the Permian, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.
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The deal follows an asset swap on the same acreage earlier in the year and increases Equinor’s natural gas holdings in the region.
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Following 2 years of setbacks, the deal to shift the US supermajor’s assets to a local operator has finally closed.
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The third quarter marked the first reporting period that two publicly traded US oil and gas companies did not combine since 2022.
