Assets

Houston-based investment firm Riverbend Energy Group said it has found a buyer for the sale of $1.8 billion in upstream equity interests. The assets include nonoperated interests across the Bakken/Three Forks, Utica, Fayetteville and Haynesville shale formations. The properties produce about 47,000 boe/d from 11,000 wells, the company said. A spokesperson would not comment on…

Comstock Resources Inc. plans to fund a boost in completions activity at its Haynesville Shale assets in Louisiana and Texas using the proceeds from selling properties in North Dakota. The Frisco, TX-based independent said Thursday it would exit the Bakken Shale, selling its assets to Northern Oil & Gas Inc. for $154 million in cash.…

U.S. independents Cimarex Energy Co. and Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. have completed their closely watched merger, bringing together more than 700,000 net acres across the Marcellus Shale and the Permian and Anadarko Basins. The previously announced transaction was completed on Friday after both companies’ shareholders approved it earlier this week. The combined company operates…

A recently launched Lower 48-focused energy firm has received a $500 million investment from private equity giant Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP. Santa Clarita, CA-based Black Knight Energy LLC was formed earlier this year “to pursue the acquisition and development of large, cash flowing oil and natural gas assets” across the Lower 48, the company…

Basic Energy Services Inc. is once again seeking voluntary bankruptcy protection and plans to sell off a substantial portion of its Lower 48 assets. Hit by the oil price rout in 2015 and 2016, the Fort Worth, TX-based oilfield services operator successfully emerged from voluntary bankruptcy five years ago. After Covid-19 bashed energy demand last…

U.S. independent Contango Oil & Gas Co. plans to boost its natural gas production by more than half later this year with the acquisition of ConocoPhillips’ conventional assets in Wyoming’s Wind River Basin for $67 million. The assets are estimated to have a net production run rate of about 78 MMcfe/d as of July 1.…

ExxonMobil on Friday fired back in response to a report that it was under federal investigation for overvaluing its Permian Basin assets. According to a story published on Friday by The Wall Street Journal, the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating ExxonMobil following a whistleblower complaint filed last fall. The complaint, said the newspaper, claims…

Eagle Ford Shale midstreamer Southcross Energy Partners LP, which filed for Chapter 11 restructuring earlier this year, has been given approval to sell some natural gas pipeline and infrastructure assets in South Texas to a unit of Kinder Morgan Inc.

Houston-based Spur Energy Partners LLC, formed earlier this year, has partnered up with sponsor KKR to buy some Permian Basin assets and acquire other properties across the Lower 48.