Acquisition

Houston’s SilverBow Resources Inc. has continued its Lower 48 acreage expansion amid high commodity prices with a new natural gas-rich acquisition.  The latest deal is an estimated $33 million all-stock transaction with an undisclosed seller. SilverBow is gaining 45,000 net acres in the Eagle Ford Shale of South Texas, bolstering its gas-weighted position in McMullen…

Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. is going back to the future, agreeing Wednesday to pay $2.2 billion for one of the Haynesville Shale’s biggest natural gas producers, Vine Energy Inc. The announcement hearkened to the past, when Chesapeake took advantage of low natural gas prices in the mid-2000s to build the biggest Lower 48 portfolio…

Houston-based Callon Petroleum Co. expects to control more than 110,000 net acres in the Permian Basin’s Delaware formation after clinching an estimated $788 million cash-and-stock deal to buy private explorer Primexx Energy Partners Ltd.  Primexx, headquartered in Dallas, has around 35,000 net acres in the Delaware sub-basin within Reeves County in West Texas. The partnership…

Oil Search Ltd., which has operations in Alaska and Papua New Guinea, has rejected a takeover bid by Australian independent Santos Ltd. that valued the combined entity at A$22 billion ($16.11 billion). The deal would have given Santos a foothold in the Papua New Guinea liquefied natural gas (LNG) scene, considered some of the lowest-cost…

Kinder Morgan Inc. is looking to make a bigger splash in the energy transition space with the $310 million acquisition of Kinetrex Energy, a renewable natural gas (RNG) and small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) player. Indianapolis-based Kinetrex claims to be the largest supplier of LNG in the Midwest with two LNG production facilities in Indianapolis.…

Tourmaline Oil Corp. is beefing up its North Montney Shale holdings with the C$1.1 billion ($900 million) purchase of privately held Black Swan Energy Ltd., a deal that could position supplies for the Canadian liquefied natural gas (LNG) market.  Tourmaline said Friday the purchase was an “important component” of its ongoing consolidation strategy in the…

Southwestern Energy Co. is moving beyond the Appalachian Basin to expand its natural gas opportunities with a $2.7 billion takeover of Haynesville Shale pure-play Indigo Natural Resources LLC. The Houston independent, a Lower 48 pioneer in unconventional drilling techniques, said the merger would boost production to 4 Bcfe/d, 85% weighted to natural gas. Indigo, which…

Houston-based Stabilis Solutions Inc. is expanding its reach in the growing liquified natural gas (LNG) bunkering sector with the acquisition of a production facility in Port Allen, LA. The fuels specialist said Tuesday it had completed the acquisition of the facility from HR Nu Blu Energy LLC for an undisclosed amount.  The small-scale plant came…

Southwestern Energy Co. is moving beyond the Appalachian Basin to expand its natural gas opportunities with a $2.7 billion takeover of Haynesville Shale pure-play Indigo Natural Resources LLC. The Houston independent, a Lower 48 pioneer in unconventional drilling techniques, said the merger would boost production to 4 Bcfe/d, 85% weighted to natural gas. Indigo, which…