During the height of the downturn in May, rigs and completions crews dwindled quickly – completion crews dropped over 85% while the rig count dropped 60% in just three months. That disconnect helped create a large accumulation of drilled uncompleted (DUC) wells as E&Ps waited for higher prices before completing wells and turning them sales. Operator […]

October 9, 2019

Austin, TX (September 9, 2020) — Enverus, the leading oil and gas SaaS and data analytics company, has released its latest FundamentalEdge report which reviews upstream and midstream activity in two active natural gas basins: the Appalachian, composed of the Marcellus and Utica shales in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and the Haynesville, in Louisiana and Texas. […]

The world is transforming before our eyes. New market realities at play for energy risk managers were unthinkable before the emergence of COVID-19 and risk management has never been more important to energy and commodity traders. From 2020 onward, the people who analyze price risk will throw away their old playbooks. Risk analysts must push […]

When it comes to prospecting for hydrocarbon-bearing rock formations at the basin level, geologists utilize net reservoir maps to help define fluid-rich intervals within geological units. To develop an effective net reservoir map, knowledge of what geological properties separate productive rock from non-productive rock is essential. Positive production trends can be associated with geologic parameters […]

Oil and gas investors are no longer focused on rapid production growth and are placing more importance on a company’s ability to return value to shareholders. Favored companies have low sustaining capital efficiencies and the ability to generate free cash flow. This pivot by investors makes Canadian conventional plays, such as the Bakken, Shaunavon and […]

Sharks in the Water — Part Four   Following our recent three-part series highlighting supermajors,  and before we turn your attention to independent “sharks” — companies with solid balance sheets, long-term growth strategies and cash to spend on acquisitions from stressed rivals we want to offer our best guess as to where the remains of […]

These are great times for pundits. We consume so much conflicting data daily; it seems anyone can predict just about anything — proving their point by cherry picking data. It appears the economy has come roaring back. But has it? Wage growth has been stellar — at least it seems so when you ignore the […]