A tale of 2 Canadian plays: Untapped value still remains
The Wild West: Reporting Canadian liquids The Wild West spirit lives on in Western Canada, at least when it comes to reporting condensate volumes in gas wells. Operators in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) do not consistently report these volumes due to the existing measurement and reporting guidelines for Alberta and British Columbia. This […]
Appalachian E&Ps see opportunities for savings later this year
Natural gas prices have been trending downward since August, with Henry Hub spot dropping from more than $9/MMbtu to around $2/Mmbtu. Enverus Intelligence® | Research’s most recent monthly Macro Forecaster report, available to EIR subscribers, predicts continued weakness, with Nymex gas averaging around $2.50 this summer and remaining in the $2.50-$3.00 range until winter 2024-2025. […]
Sundown on California solar power premiums
California used to be a golden state for solar power producers, but recent changes in the market pose challenges for a technology expected to be a critical part of the state’s drive to meet its emissions targets. Depending on timing of generation and prevailing system demand, capture price — the average electricity price a renewable […]
Coterra’s big Permian projects defy degradation worries
Completion data recently released by Texas regulators spotlights the strong productivity of Coterra Energy’s large-scale Permian projects. The data includes two wells completed early this year on the company’s 14-well Prewit-Justify/Authentic project in Culberson County. The Authentic 13 C State 3H was fractured with 1,804 lb/ft of proppant and 35 bbl/ft of fluid across a […]
6 reasons to attend the Enverus 2023 EVOLVE Conference
The energy industry is rapidly evolving, affecting everyone from oil and gas operators, refiners and service providers, to renewables players, investors and power traders. EVOLVE is a two-day virtual event that combines our Play-by-Play Conference, led by our world class oil and gas and energy transition Intelligence team, with some of the most respected experts […]
Royalty M&A 2023 debut: Kimbell’s Midland Basin $143M buy
While there are plenty of potential big deals on the horizon hinting at a busy Q2 for U.S. upstream M&A, last week remained slow with just one deal announced with a price tag exceeding $10 million. That transaction did highlight an interesting development — more than three months into 2023, it was the first significant […]
Energy Transition Today: EPA jumpstarts EV uptake
The pace of electric vehicle (EV) adoption is hastening around the world, with China set to surpass 30% of new sales in 2023. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its plan to significantly increase regulation on tailpipe emissions, so much so that it would require between 54%-60% of new vehicles sold in the U.S. […]
Permian gears up for M&A bonanza as PE steers toward the exits
This article originally appeared in the Enverus Weekly Market Pulse Report. Last week’s $4.3 billion acquisition of three Midland Basin-focused EnCap portfolio companies by Ovintiv was the biggest Permian deal since ConocoPhillips bought Shell’s assets in September 2021 and kicked off 2Q23 M&A with a bang. Ovintiv shareholders didn’t seem to mind the scale and […]
2023 banking crisis: What does it mean for oil prices?
Some very prominent banks (Silicon Valley Bank, Credit Suisse, Signature Bank) are shaking the very foundation of the financial system, which is spilling over and causing some significant downward pressure within the oil markets. No doubt this all appears frightening, but let’s step back and take a look at what it really means for the […]
CCUS: Separating winners from losers
The Inflation Reduction Act supercharged activity along the carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS) value chain and accelerated the race to secure partnerships with emitters and landowners for CO2 storage. As excitement turns to action, attention is shifting to evaluating risks along the value chain and to the factors that will distinguish successful projects. Enverus’ […]