Anadarko

Anadarko Basin-focused BCE-Mach III LLC is beefing up its natural gas-weighted assets with a deal to add 18,200 net acres and 17 MMcfe/d to its portfolio amid high commodity prices.  The company, a partnership of Houston-based Bayou City Energy Management LLC and Oklahoma City-based Mach Resources LLC, said this week it recently closed on the…

Denver-based Ovintiv Inc. streamlined the business during 1Q2021 to focus only on the Anadarko, Montney and Permian basins as it eyes slashing debt to appease restless investors. With long-held but neglected shale properties in Canada’s Duvernay and the South Texas Eagle Ford sold off, the independent has accelerated a $4.5 billion total debt target timeline…

Oklahoma’s Enable Midstream Partners LP has seen an increase in drilling activity around its footprint as commodity prices have improved, with a “substantial” inventory of drilled but uncompleted (DUC) wells sitting behind the company’s system in the Anadarko and Williston basins. “These DUCs provide an inventory of wells producers can complete without investing additional drilling…

Cumulative natural gas production from seven key U.S. onshore regions is set to fall by 472 MMcf/d from January to February, extending a downtrend that goes back to early 2020, according to updated projections published Tuesday by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). In its latest Drilling Productivity Report, EIA said it expects the Anadarko, Appalachian…

Deflating oil and natural gas production from seven of the most prolific U.S. onshore unconventional plays is expected to continue in August, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).  Total oil production from the Anadarko, Appalachian and Permian basins, and the Bakken, Eagle Ford, Haynesville and Niobrara formations is expected to decline to 7.49 million…

Denver-based Ovintiv Inc., whose broad oil and natural gas portfolio runs across the Permian and Anadarko basins and the Montney formation in Canada, is shelving some onshore work in the Eagle Ford, Bakken, Uinta and Duvernay formations, but it’s keeping a sharp eye on the direction of natural gas prices to determine when to boost activity.

Reflecting the impact of both the coronavirus pandemic and the global oil price war, natural gas and oil production from seven of the most prolific onshore U.S. unconventional plays is expected to decline in May compared with April, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Reflecting the impact of both the coronavirus pandemic and the global oil price war, natural gas and oil production from seven of the most prolific onshore U.S. unconventional plays is expected to decline in May compared with April, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

In concessions to activist shareholder Carl Icahn, Houston-based independent Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Oxy) has named Magnolia Oil and Gas Corp. CEO Stephen Chazen as chairman and appointed three Icahn-picked directors to the board.