Getting your arms around environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues can be quite some task, writes Oil and Gas Investor's Senior Financial Analyst Chris Sheehan. As one observer noted, current criteria used to evaluate ESG issues are “highly diverse on a massively complex subject.”
ESG issues have never before claimed such importance. Public companies, no matter in what sector they may operate, “ignore this at their peril,” according to Pavel Molchanov, an energy research analyst at Raymond James & Associates Inc.
Oil and Gas Investor Magazine
December 1, 2020
Oversupplied global markets continue to weigh heavy on producers’ profitability outlooks.
After enduring a wild year, producers seek a “new normal.” It will depend on the balance between supply and demand and the economic recovery. In Oil and Gas Investor s cover story, Leslie Haines addresses the imminent challenges in 2021 and how companies should position themselves.
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K. Scott Roy, senior vice president of Range Resources, discusses the U.S. shale producer’s net-zero ambitions and its outlook on natural gas in the energy transition.
EOG’s newly unveiled Dorado natural gas play has an estimated net resource potential of 21 Tcf in 700 ft of stacked pay in the Austin Chalk and Eagle Ford Shale formations. The economics could lure attention back to South Texas.
The U.S. oil and gas industry is under extreme pressure by capital providers, stakeholders and elected officials to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and to show compliance to globally accepted climate change goals. In Oil and Gas Investor's cover story, senior editor Darren Barbee explores the question, can a hydrocarbon-producing company win in this scenario?
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Oil and Gas Investor Magazine
August 1, 2020
Good rocks, low costs and ample transportation keep Haynesville Shale operators drilling ahead.
Kicked out of the club in 2012, the Haynesville was resurrected beginning in 2017 to take on the mighty Marcellus in metrics, aided by a proximity-to-market kicker. Oil and Gas Investor s cover story explores how it’s taking on oil basins at the IRR weigh-in.
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Unfazed by challenging market conditions, Appalachia-focused Diversified Gas & Oil Plc is actively pursuing A&D following recent successful fund raises. With a model focused on amassing mature production and little to no drilling, is it the perfect vehicle to weather a perfect storm?
Oil and Gas Investor Magazine
January 1, 2020
Major players push the envelope and independents in the major shales.
The desert city of Midland, Texas, is generally a poor barometer by which to measure booms, busts or even the passing of seasons. Year-round, the landscape in the Permian Basin alternates between the rugged chaparral brush and the 11 evergreen golf courses catering to the city. But something has caught in the air in Midland, like ragweed or discontent. “There’s a slowdown going on in the Permian,” Pioneer Natural Resources Co. CEO Scott Sheffield told
Oil and Gas Investor, “while oil majors are increasing production.” In early spring 2019, Exxon Mobil announced it would turn its Permian Basin position into a kind of dreadnought. There goes the neighborhood, writes