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The basin is deeper, gassier, more geologically complex and more remote than the Midland Basin to the east. But the Delaware is too sweet of a prize to pass up for many of the nation’s top oil and gas producers.
After Mesa II sold its Haynesville Shale portfolio to Franco-Nevada for $125 million late last year, Mesa Royalties III is jumping back into Louisiana and East Texas, as well as the Permian Basin.
Oil and gas dealmaking continued at a high clip in the first quarter, especially in the Permian Basin. But a thinning list of potential takeout targets, and an invigorated Federal Trade Commission, are chilling the red-hot M&A market.
Once a company with low outside expectations, Surge Energy is now a premier private producer in one of the world’s top shale plays.
Kimmeridge’s proposal to combine Eagle Ford players Kimmeridge Texas Gas (KTG) and SilverBow Resources is gaining support from another large investor.