Consolidation by the Big Guys in the nation’s largest oil and gas basins may well offer golden opportunities for the Smaller Guys to snap up non-core cast offs when the deal dust finally settles. For other smaller operators, finding remarkable success in plays outside of the major headliners is no big mystery—just largely under covered by the media....
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Back in 2020, the world’s largest alternative asset manager took private a Kan.-based midstream operator in a surprise and sweetened deal valued at $6.3 billion....
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Headline speakers at industry events are the forever premium attraction to draw an audience. Who doesn’t want to hear from the nation’s top oil and gas CEOs sharing their company stories and foresight? But aside from those presentations largely scripted, one-on-one interviews can offer other takeaway gems when energy leaders sit down to address questions....
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Weather temps in El Paso, Texas, today are expected to breach the 103° mark. Nothing out of the ordinary here when summer says “howdy” to West Texas and her Permian oilfields. El Paso is where billionaire oil tycoon Paul Foster lays his head at night. ...
Read MoreOh, to be a fly on the wall in the C-suite when “advanced talks” of a potential merger conclude with a final agreement. There’s a certain romanticism to the dance—at least one can envision—when negotiations are at last settled, and a hard-fought deal is ultimately reached that promises more bounties ahead....
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Back in Fall 2022, Fort Worth, Texas-based FireBird Energy—a Permian player that had built up a respectable position in the Midland over three years—hit the kind of jackpot with a story every portfolio company and their PE money-backers live to tell. ...
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