Carlyle

Citing asset sales as an important component of its funding plan, Emera Inc. has agreed to sell its three natural gas generation plants in New England to an affiliate of The Carlyle Group for $590 million, the Nova Scotia-based company announced Monday.

The Carlyle Group Inc. agreed this week to fund one of Diamondback Energy Inc.’s Permian Basin developments in West Texas.

The Carlyle Group LP, a global private equity firm, announced Monday that it has entered into an agreement to form a joint venture (JV) with EOG Resources Inc., and will invest up to $400 million to help the company develop its oil and natural gas assets in Oklahoma.

Privately owned Hilcorp Energy Corp. has created a partnership backed by The Carlyle Group to exploit natural gas and oil “opportunities” in the North American energy sector, the Houston producer said Friday.

Legend Natural Gas IV LP stepped forward Thursday as the buyer of Range Resources Corp. Barnett Shale assets. Legend said it had struck two deals totaling $1 billion, one of them with Range in the Barnett of North Texas.

The Riverstone/Carlyle Global Energy and Power Funds Monday announced completion of the acquisition of USA Compression Holdings LP, the parent company of USA Compression Partners LLC, a natural gas compression services company headquartered in Austin and Dallas, TX. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

EnCana Corp. and some of its affiliates agreed to sell virtually all of their gas storage interests to private equity fund Carlyle/Riverstone Global Energy and Power Fund for about $1.5 billion after adjustments.