BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA (By Steve Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 12.Feb.2026, Words: 450) — JERA Co. Inc., through its subsidiary JERA Americas Inc., closed on its previously announced agreement with Williams and GEP Haynesville II, LLC to acquire 100% of their respective interests in the South Mansfield upstream asset located in the […]
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Tailwater Capital reveals strategic investment in Central Midstream
HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Isaac Silvestre, Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Dec.2025, Words: 181) — Tailwater Capital LLC closed on its acquisition of a majority interest in Central Midstream Partners, LLC (originally established as Central Crude). Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP served as legal advisor to Central Midstream, while Troutman Pepper Locke LLP […]
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EAI brief: Moody’s says rising extraction costs squeeze Argentine producers [pdf download]
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (Ana Sanches, Energy Analytics Institute, 16.Jul.2025, Words: 366) — The increase in lifting costs recorded in 2024 in Argentina reduces the profitability margins of conventional hydrocarbon producers in the Southern Cone country, according to Moody’s. This, as Argentina’s new investment incentive regime for large investments (RIGI by its […]
Sinopecs 5,300m vertical well sets new well depth record in China
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 14.May.2025, Words: 369) — China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation’s Tiebei 1HF well was drilled to a vertical depth that surpassed 5,300m with a 1,312m-long horizontal section, setting a new vertical depth record for shale gas wells in China. Importantly, the well test flowed 314,500 […]
Vista says research on seismic activity in Vaca Muerta inconclusive
BELIZE CITY, BELIZE (Aaron Simonsky, Energy Analytics Institute, 22.Apr.2025, Words: 256) — Mexico City-based Vista Energy, S.A.B. de C.V. (formerly Vista Oil & Gas, S.A.B. de C.V.), said extensive research into the potential sources of increased seismic activity in the Vaca Muerta formation in the Neuquina basin in Argentina — […]
Dissecting Y-P-F: $45/bbl resilience, portfolio management and upstream snapshot
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 22.Apr.2025, Words: 3,550) — Argentina’s state-owned YPF SA aims to add value in the Argentine upstream space through optimization of capital deployed to achieve certain levels of operational excellence. The company believes such actions could open new development opportunities to boost incorporation […]
Tokyo Gas Focused on Value Enhancement, US Expansion, Growing LNG Trading
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 26.Mar.2025) — Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd., with regard to its current Medium-Term Management Plan (MTMP), reaffirmed its commitment to continuous corporate value enhancement. To this end, Tokyo Gas aims to address investor concerns around its ability to achieve a return on equity (ROE) […]
Veren Eyes Average Production of 188,000-196,000 boe/d in 2025
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA (Steve Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 27.Feb.2025) — Veren Inc., which has started 2025 strong boasting production of 191,000 boe/d in Jan. 2025, has an eye on achieving average production of 188,000-196,000 boe/d (65% oil and liquids) in 2025. This, based on its development capital expenditures (Capex) budget […]
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EAI North America NRG Dashboard 4Q:24 [PDF Download]
(Energy Analytics Institute, 28.Dec.2024) — Energy Analytics Institute‘s North America NRG Dashboard 4Q:24 with upstream, downstream, midstream, LNG, renewable, new energies and other updates from Canada and the USA. ____________________ By Editors at Energy Analytics Institute. © Energy Analytics Institute (EAI). All Rights Reserved.
The Montney: A Rising Star in North American Energy
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Energy Analytics Institute, 29.Nov.2024) — The Montney Shale, nestled within Canada’s Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB), is emerging as a key player in North America’s unconventional oil and gas sector. This prolific resource has long been a cornerstone for Canadian energy giants—ARC Resources, Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) […]
Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale formation: a game-changer in the making
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Nov.2024) — The Vaca Muerta shale formation in Argentina’s Neuquén Basin isn’t just another oil and gas formation, it’s the crown jewel of the South American country’s energy future. Often compared to U.S. shale heavyweights like the Permian and Bakken, Vaca Muerta […]
Chevron Reveals $6.5bn Sale of Interests in Canada to CNRL
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Energy Analytics Institute, 7.Oct.2024) — Chevron Canada Limited, an indirect subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, and a related entity entered into a definitive agreement to sell their 20% percent non-operated interest in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project, 70% operated interest in the Duvernay shale, and related interests, all located […]
“Shale en Argentina”: Pluspetrol’s Julián Escuder
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Energy Analytics Institute, 12.Sep.2024) — Pluspetrol Country Manager Julián Escuder spoke on 12 Sep. 2024 at the ‘Shale en Argentina’ event in Houston, Texas during a panel discussion about ongoing and future developments in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta formation. What follows are excerpts from Julián Escuder’s participation in the […]
APA Reveals over $700mn in Asset Sales from Two Transactions
(APA Corp., 20.May.2024) — APA Corporation (Nasdaq: APA) announced the sale of non-core producing properties by Apache Corporation and certain of its subsidiaries in two separate transactions with aggregate proceeds of more than $700mn, prior to customary closing adjustments. Combined, the properties represent estimated net production in the first-quarter 2024 […]
YPF Reveals 1Q:24 Results
(YPF, 10.May.2024) — YPF SA said it achieved a new quarterly record high in operational efficiencies, delivering positive evolution in shale oil production. YPF also released its Form 20-F. ____________________
Equinor Swaps Onshore US Assets with EQT
(Equinor, 15.Apr.2024) — Equinor and EQT Corporation agreed to swap Equinor’s operated position in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations in Ohio for a stake in EQT’s non-operated interest in the Northern Marcellus formation. Under the transaction agreement, Equinor will sell 100% interest in and operatorship of its onshore asset […]
Diamondback, Endeavor to Create $50bn Company
(Reuters, 11.Feb.2024) — U.S. shale oil rivals Diamondback Energy and Endeavor Energy Resources are close to finalizing a roughly $25 billion cash-and-stock deal that would create an oil and gas company valued at more than $50 billion, sources said on Sunday. Diamondback could announce a transaction as soon as Monday […]
TG Natural Resources to Buy Rockcliff Energy for $2.7bn
(Quantum, 15.Dec.2023) — Rockcliff Energy II LLC, a portfolio company of Quantum Energy Partners, announced the entry into a definitive agreement with TG Natural Resources LLC (TGNR), in which TGNR will acquire 100% of the membership interests in Rockcliff for $2.7bn, prior to customary adjustments (the “Transaction”). Rockcliff is a […]
North American Gas Market to Expand by 25% Over Next Decade: WoodMac
(WoodMac, 17.May.2023) — Near-term gas market expansion continues to be driven by global demand for US LNG exports, which will largely be supplied through continued growth in Permian associated gas and Haynesville production, according to a recent report from Wood Mackenzie. “LNG export growth will drive the market for many […]
INEOS Makes Major $1.4bn Acquisition of US Onshore Assets
(INEOS, 21.Feb.2023) — INEOS Energy is entering US oil and gas production for the first time with the acquisition of a portion of Chesapeake Energy’s oil and gas assets in the Eagle Ford shale, south Texas for $1.4bn. Highlights: The world is critically dependent upon oil and gas as a […]
Mexico Plans to be LNG Export Hub with US Gas
(Bloomberg, 15.Aug.2022) — Mexico — which imports nearly all of the natural gas it burns — has laid out a somewhat surprising mission: to become one of the world’s top exporters of the fuel, and fast. Although natural gas exports from Mexico are today non-existent, seeing as it produces too little of the power-plant […]
Argentina Signs Deal with Tenaris to Move Gas from Vaca Muerta
(Reuters, 17.Jun.2022) — Argentine state company Energia Argentina signed a contract June 16 with pipeline producer Tenaris, a critical step toward completing a pipeline to transfer natural gas from Argentina’s giant Vaca Muerta shale formation. The government says the pipeline will allow Argentina to forgo costly imports of LNG and reverse a large energy deficit that has limited the country’s economic recovery. The […]
Driller Stuns Creditors As Argentina’s Dollars Dwindle
(Bloomberg, 19.Jan.2021) — In the 99 years since it was founded to pump the oil fields of Patagonia, Argentine energy driller YPF SA has been whipsawed by countless booms and busts. If global oil markets weren’t collapsing, it seemed, then Argentina was mired in a debt crisis that was wreaking havoc on […]
Bayón Says Unconventionals Not The Only Option
Ecopetrol’ CEO Felipe Bayón said unconventionals were a very important option for Colombia since they allowed the country to boost its oil and gas reserves-to-production ratios while generating benefits for many regions such as employment, and goods and services. But he added: “In terms energy security, unconventionals are very important but they’re not the only option.”
Quiet Destruction Of Colombia’s Shale Potential
(Oilprice.com, 23.Jul.2020) — Sharply weaker oil prices, falling investment and dwindling oil production are weighing heavily on Colombia’s economic outlook. Last decade, the strife-torn Andean country bet its economic future on oil and became Latin America’s third-largest oil producer. A combination of deteriorating oil production and low reserves, despite promising […]
Chesapeake Energy Files For Chapter 11
(WoodMac, 28.Jun.2020) — Speaking after Chesapeake Energy filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today, Alex Beeker, principal analyst on Wood Mackenzie’s corporate upstream team, said: “It’s difficult to point to another company that made more of a widespread impact on the US shale sector than Chesapeake. “The tech sector dubs […]
Argentina President Sees Potential In Conventionals
(S&P Global Platts, 13.Jan.2020) — Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez said he plans to encourage the development of conventional oil and natural gas reserves, not just the shale resources in the huge Vaca Muerta play. “There is little exploration to find new deposits, and there is very little secondary and tertiary […]
Argentina’s Shale Boom Hits New Milestone
(Oilprice.com, Irina Slav, 10.Dec.2019) — YPF, the Argentine state energy company, has drilled the longest horizontal oil well lateral, at 3,890 meters, or more than 12,700 feet, in the Vaca Muerta shale play, S&P Global Platts reports, citing a source close to the company. The record-breaking lateral—the horizontal part of […]
Is Big Oil Wasting Its Time in The US Shale Patch?
(Oilprice.com, Nick Cunningham, 19.Nov.2019) — Growth in the U.S. shale industry is dramatically slowing down, with cash-strapped drillers slashing spending and scrapping rigs. At the same time, the oil majors are consolidating their position and moving forward with aggressive drilling plans. The business model for small and medium-sized drillers has […]
Ecopetrol and Oxy Finalize Permian Deal
(Ecopetrol, 13.Nov.2019) — Ecopetrol S.A. completed the joint venture transaction announced on 31 Jul. 2019. Through this deal, the company and Occidental Petroleum Corp agreed to form a strategic alliance or joint venture for the development of unconventional reservoirs in approximately 97,000 acres of the Permian Basin in the state […]
Mexican Lawsuit Risks Permian Route To Market
(Petroleum Economist, Charles Waine, 2.Aug.2019) — Mexico’s Comisión Federal de Electridad (CFE), the state-owned electricity utility, has started legal proceedings against seven natural gas pipelines. The move intensifies fears about both the anti-business agenda of the country’s president Andres López Obrador and further delays to a much-needed release valve for […]
Ecopetrol Call To Discuss Oxy Midland Basin Deal
(Ecopetrol, 31.Jul.2019) — Ecopetrol S.A. announces that on August 1st, Ecopetrol’s senior management will host two conference calls to review the joint venture with Occidental Petroleum Corporation to develop Occidental’s Midland Basin properties in the Permian Basin. Please find below the timing, dial-in and links to access the conferences: Spanish […]
Ecopetrol and Occidental Form Strategic Midland JV
(Ecopetrol, 31.Jul.2019) — Ecopetrol S.A. announced formation of a joint venture with Occidental Petroleum Corporation to develop 97,000 net acres of Occidental’s Midland Basin properties in the Permian Basin. The JV enables Ecopetrol to book ~160 MMboe of proved undeveloped reserves at transaction closing and provides access to one of […]
Wintershall Dea And ConocoPhillips Team Up In The Prolific Neuquén Basin
(Wintershall, 25.Jul.2019) — ConocoPhillips is a new partner in the Aguada Federal and Bandurria Norte blocks with Wintershall Dea. The two companies will advance the development of the significant Vaca Muerta shale resources in the blocks. Wintershall Dea is pleased to announce that it has signed a Sales and Purchase […]
Vaca Muerta Output Growth Leads To LNG Exports
(EIA, 12.Jul.2019) — Argentina’s domestic natural gas production has been rising steadily in the past three years, largely because of increasing production from the Neuquén Basin’s Vaca Muerta shale and tight gas play. Production from Vaca Muerta surpassed 1.0 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in December 2018. As production […]
Shale Helps Argentina Hit Oil, Natgas Output Record
(Reuters, 2.Jul.2019) — Argentine oil and natural gas output hit a record high in May thanks to increased production from the country’s sprawling Vaca Muerta shale formation, the government said on Wednesday. National gas production increased 7.6% in May compared with the same month last year, while oil production grew […]
Argentine Shale Spurs Search For Oil, Gas Giant
(Platts, 11.Jun.2019) — On the vast, desolate plains of southern Patagonia, Compañía General de Negocios is stepping up drilling and exploration where few companies operate, an emerging trend of widening the search for oil and natural gas in Argentina. “The resource is very large,” Hugo Eurnekian, president of the Argentinian […]
Permian Water Disposal Volumes To Double By 2022: Wood Mac
(Wood Mac, 12.Apr.2019) — Water disposal volumes in the Permian Basin are expected to double within the next two to three years, new analysis from Wood Mackenzie shows. As drilling activity in the basin continues to expand, hydraulic fracturing has resulted in the growing challenge of how to source water, […]
Indigo Natural Resources LLC Provides Operational Update
(Indigo, 4.Apr.2019) — Indigo Natural Resources LLC, a privately-owned natural gas and natural gas liquids company with assets in the Haynesville Shale, the Bossier Shale and the Holly Vaughn formation today provided an operational update focused on Indigo net production, midstream joint venture gathering throughput and year-end 2018 Indigo reserves […]