Posted on April 10, 2026
Crude Oil, Natural Gas, Permian, San Juan Basin

The San Juan Basin, which extends 7,500 square miles across northwest N.M., and southwest Colo., bears a storied history of gas riches, disappointments, and recent revivals. Natural gas was first discovered here in 1921. By 2007, the San Juan was touted as the nation’s largest gas field with claims of 12.9 TCF of recoverable reserves. But after 10 years of decline and poor economics, the basin in 2017 saw a mass exodus of its largest players—ConocoPhillips, BP, and ExxonMobil—chasing Permian treasures. Enter the independents ready to snap up those assets. ...

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Posted on March 12, 2026
Company Spotlight, Crude Oil, Gas Plants, Gathering Systems, Mergers & Acquisitions, Midstream, Natural Gas, Natural Gas Liquids - NGLs, Permian, Pipelines

Hunters and gatherers might have aptly described Brazos Midstream upon its founding back in 2014. That would have meant hunters of infrastructure assets to gather, treat, and process crude oil and natural gas in the Permian basin....

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Posted on February 24, 2026
Anadarko Basin, Company Spotlight, Crude Oil, Eagle Ford, Gulf Coast, Offshore, Permian

While Bill Gates sets to build an artificial sun to power the world, and a Texas family raffles off untapped mineral rights on its land at $4 per ticket, Reese Energy Consulting is following the latest news from Houston-based ConocoPhillips (COP). The company has hardly been shy about slashing $5 billion in debt after acquiring Marathon Oil in 2024 in an all-stock deal valued at $22.5 billion. ...

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Posted on February 19, 2026
Anadarko Basin, Crude Oil, Eagle Ford, Gas Plants, Gathering Systems, International, Mergers & Acquisitions, Midstream, Natural Gas, Permian, Pipelines

What a year it’s been less than two months into 2026 for oil and gas mergers, asset divestitures, and acquisitions. While buyer demand remains strong for shale opportunities, especially in the luxe-priced Permian, it’s driven more producers to seek out opportunities in other basins, including explorations of new frontiers outside the U.S. ...

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Posted on January 20, 2026
Bakken, Fracking, Horizontal Drilling, Natural Gas, Natural Gas, Permian, Pipeline, Pipelines

In a 2017 Forbes article, writer Robert Rapier escorted the magazine’s audience on a fascinating tour of “How the Shale Boom Turned the World Upside Down”. If you recall, the nation’s oil and gas production had long ago peaked with conventional drilling and by 2005, we were in a full-blown energy crisis highly dependent on Venezuela and Saudi Arabia oil imports. And natural gas? Well, the only solution here with certainty according to one energy investor was “to pray.” ...

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