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
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
Oil and Gas Investor Magazine
May 1, 2020
Oil and Gas Investor s cover story in this issue analyzes the first wave of the COVID-19 induced demand destruction and OPEC+ instigated supply surge, but that is just the first chapter of this epic drama that will take months and likely years to unfold entirely. Realistically, the world needs to recover from the coronavirus before the oil markets are going to return to any kind of a semblance of yesteryear’s prices led by renewed demand. And if the bug takes hold again for a round two, timing is anyone’s bet.
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Oil and Gas Investor Magazine
February 3, 2020
Midland Basin independents push the drillbit farther in America’s oil-rich sweet spot.
Some deals are still getting done in the Midland Basin, writes
Oil and Gas Investor s Editor-at-Large Nissa Darbonne. For instance, longtime E&P executive Jack Hightower picked private-equity-backed Grenadier Energy Partners II LLC as the platform purchase for his SPAC, Pure Acquisition Corp., which will trade as HighPeak Energy Inc. upon closing. In the southern Midland Basin, Sequitur is focused primarily on the Wolfcamp. It has looked at data on other benches, such as the lower Spraberry, which it believes prospective across much of its leasehold. In this issue of
With the prospect of associated gas from the Permian and Eagle Ford diminishing, many producers view the future of dry gas plays in the Appalachian Basin more positively. Oil and Gas Investor's cover story looks at well-positioned and well-capitalized companies that are staring at an unexpected opportunity.
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