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Diamondback to Buy Endeavor Energy in $26 Billion Mega Shale Deal

(Reuters) – Shale producer Diamondback Energy  said on Monday it would buy the largest privately held oil and gas producer in the Permian Basin, Endeavor Energy Partners, in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $26 billion, including debt. The combined company would be the third largest oil and gas producer in the region behind Exxon and …

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Energy M&A Boom Is Just Getting Started, Enbridge CEO Ebel Says

The surge in energy industry mergers and acquisitions — marked by a series of megadeals among oil producers last year — is set to ramp up further in 2024 as interest rates decline, Enbridge Inc. Chief Executive Officer Greg Ebel said. “As interest rates start to peak and perhaps come down — who knows exactly when that’s going to …

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Oil Pipeline Owner Plains Searches for Deals as Shale M&A Heats Up

Pipeline operator Plains All American Pipeline LP is looking to make more deals as merger and acquisition activity heats up across the oil and gas industry. “We’re hopeful that we’ll be successful on some bolt-on acquisitions,” Chief Financial Officer Al Swanson said on a quarterly earnings call Friday. Small acquisitions of Permian Basin crude gathering lines have helped boost …

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Deal in the Works? EnCap Eyes $5 billion Sale of Shale Producer Grayson Mill

Private equity firm EnCap Investments is exploring a sale of Grayson Mill Energy that could value the Bakken shale-focused oil and gas producer at around $5 billion, inclusive of debt, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. EnCap has tapped investment bank Jefferies Financial Group to run a sale of Grayson Mill, the sources …

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$144B of Transactions in Recording-Setting 4Q23 for Upstream M&A

ExxonMobil and Chevron lead the charge to secure future resource, but will this historic consolidation continue? CALGARY, Alberta (January 23, 2024) — Enverus Intelligence Research (EIR), a subsidiary of Enverus, the most trusted energy-dedicated SaaS company, is releasing its summary of Q4 and full-year 2023 upstream merger and acquisition (M&A) activity. Q4 recorded a massive …

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More U.S. Energy Deals Likely in 2024 in Wave of Consolidation

The U.S. energy sector has entered a new phase of consolidation as the industry went on a $250-billion buying spree in 2023, and experts see more transactions on the horizon. The majority of energy executives polled in December by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas expected more oil deals worth $50 billion or higher to …

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Gas Station Owner Sunoco to Buy NuStar Energy for $7.3 Billion

Move comes after Sunoco sold convenience stores to 7-Eleven Deal would add crude oil transportation and storage for Sunoco Sunoco LP, a US gas station owner, agreed to acquire pipeline and fuel storage company NuStar Energy LP for about $7.3 billion in a move to diversify its business and buy up a key part of its supply …

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Breaking It Down: Chesapeake $7.4 Bln Deal Finds Safety in Numbers

(Reuters Breakingviews) – Chesapeake Energy  is the latest to join the fossil-fuel merger rush, and has the benefit of safety in numbers. That’s true in two ways: first, because its $7.4 billion purchase of Southwestern Energy is financially attractive for Chesapeake shareholders, and secondly because Boss Nick Dell’Osso is treading an M&A path that rivals like Exxon Mobil  and …

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Chesapeake to Become Top U.S. Natural Gas Producer With $7.4 billion Deal for Southwestern

(Reuters) – Chesapeake Energy (CHK.O) said on Thursday it would buy smaller rival Southwestern Energy (SWN.N) in an all-stock transaction valued at $7.4 billion, a deal that would enable the second-largest U.S. natural gas producer to take the top spot. The move extends a recent spate of multi-billion deals in the U.S. energy sector including Exxon Mobil’s (XOM.N) $60-billion Pioneer Natural …

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