Deals of the Week: ConocoPhillips is Biggest Spender in First Gulf of Mexico...
This week, the Gulf of Mexico held its first lease sale since the Horizon oil spill of April 2010. The Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 218 reaped a total of $337 million, with 20 companies gaining...
View ArticleDeals of the Week: Total and Sinopec Make US Shale Moves as New Year Begins
US Shale was the big M&A headline-maker in 2011, and 2012 has started on the same track. Sinopec and Total were both involved in big money deals this week, spending a combined total of around $4.5...
View ArticleDeals of the Week: Chevron Enters New Partnership in Canadian Atlantic with...
After the extremely busy start to 2012 last week, M&A activity slowed down considerably this week, with only a few deals breaking $100 million. Three major companies joined forces in one of the...
View ArticleDeals of the week: Sinochem Increases China’s Ties with South America
Sinochem made the largest deal of the week by acquiring TEPMA BV from Total in a transaction that may have been worth $440 million. Total omitted to reveal the value of the deal but disclosed that...
View ArticleDeals of the Week: EP Energy Corporation and Cove Energy Find their Suitors
In a week where confidence has been returning to the oil market in tandem with the increasing oil price, two companies that have been in the shop window over the past few months have found willing...
View ArticleDeals of the Week: Pengrowth Makes $1.9 billion Move for NAL Energy Corp
In what was the biggest E&P deal of the week, fellow Canadian intermediate producers Pengrowth Energy and NAL Energy, combined to form a company which will reportedly be worth $6.6 billion. The...
View ArticleGlobal Impact of North American Shale Gas Boom Forces Qatar to Shift Focus
The global impact of the US shale gas boom was in further evidence this week as Qatar Petroleum, along with its MOU partner, Centrica, made its first move into the North American E&P market in a $1...
View ArticlePoland’s Shale Gas Future Going Up in Smoke?
In September 2011, Poland was riding a wave of optimism as state-owned PGNiG lit a flare at the site of its Lubucino-1 well, becoming the first company to extract shale gas in the highly prospective...
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Chesapeake and Foreign Partners Set for Big US Shale Spend in 2013
Analysing Evaluate Energy’s recently released 2013 capital expenditure and average well cost data for the major US shale plays, it becomes clear that foreign companies will have a huge influence on how...
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How the election of Hassan Rouhani as Iran’s New President will Impact the...
As Hassan Rouhani replaces Mahoud Ahmadinejad as the president of Iran, on the promise of a reform agenda that includes greater nuclear transparency. The damaging UN sanctions against the Iranian state...
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Oil and Gas M&A in Q2 2013 Reaches Just $23.6 billion
As we embark upon a new quarter, Evaluate Energy has taken the time to reflect on the key trends that emerged during the second quarter of 2013 in the oil & gas M&A market, including the impact...
View ArticleIs US Shale Gas About to Lower Global Gas Prices?
It has been well documented over the past few years that the vast quantities of shale gas suddenly being produced in the US has caused a sharp fall in the benchmark gas prices domestically. In the...
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Who are the World’s Highest Risk Oil Producers?
Evaluate Energy has cut through the cacophony of different rating agencies’ (Note 1) sovereign and country rating risk rating systems to present their data in a single number. The resulting consensus...
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OMV Deal Shows the Importance of the Johan Sverdrup Field to Norway
Statoil’s deal to sell a number of its stakes in North Sea assets to OMV (see table) for US$2.65 billion was based on their need to free up cash for the development of high-return core assets, with the...
View ArticlePKN Orlen Seeking Unconventional Knowhow in Canada to Aid Polish Shale Efforts
So far, 2013 has proven to be a difficult year for Poland and its shale gas ambitions; big foreign investors have withdrawn, wells have been generally disappointing and setting legislation has been a...
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Who are the Foreign Oil & Gas Companies in US Shale Plays?
Over the past few years, M&A headlines have been dominated by foreign companies acquiring US shale acreage positions. How has this affected the overall landscape of the industry, and which...
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