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Occidental Petroleum is exploring a sale of Western Midstream Partners, a U.S. natural gas-focused pipeline operator that has a market value of close to $20 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter. Western Midstream shares rose 10% to $32.12 in afternoon trading in New York on Tuesday. The divestment would help Occidental, …
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Shale drillers can ‘consolidate or get eaten’: Warwick CEO US oil producers now in ‘arms race’ for scale, investor says This week’s $26 billion combination of two Texas oil companies is the latest in a series of deals that’s ushering in the era of Big Shale. Wall Street, which eyed the sector with skepticism for …
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(Reuters) – Occidental Petroleum on Thursday said a U.S. regulator’s second request for information on the acquisition of shale producer CrownRock has pushed back the deal’s closing date to second half this year. The delay in Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approval of the $12 billion acquisition will make the Houston-based oil company postpone planned sales of …
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CEO Meg O’Neill focused on LNG in Australia, North America She is not averse to Middle East deals, including with Aramco Woodside Energy Group Ltd. remains open to acquisitions following a failed attempt to merge with Santos Ltd., as it looks to grow the liquefied natural gas business. “We will keep the door open to a …
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Bloomberg Drilling for deals The oil and gas sector has been one of the few in which you haven’t had to drill too deep for good M&A news during the global deals slump. Whether you’re looking over three, six or 12-month periods, year-on-year increases in the values of transactions involving oil and gas companies look …
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(Reuters) – For years, Endeavor Energy founder Autry Stephens’ refusal to entertain acquisition offers for one of the most lucrative producers in the U.S. oil patch vexed some of his peers. “It’s not for sale, it hasn’t been for sale, it’s probably not going to ever sell,” Pioneer Natural Resources’ former CEO Scott Sheffield, a contemporary …
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(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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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 …
Energy M&A Boom Is Just Getting Started, Enbridge CEO Ebel Says Read More »
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 …
Oil Pipeline Owner Plains Searches for Deals as Shale M&A Heats Up Read More »
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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