Denver-Julesburg Basin

In a stealth move Monday, Chevron Corp. snapped up Denver-based independent PDC Energy Inc., a transaction that builds the Permian Basin inventory and adds enough heft in Colorado to become a “Top Five” global asset. Chevron CEO Mike Wirth led a conference call early Monday to discuss the all-stock deal, valued at $6.3 billion, or…

Quantum Energy Partners and the Bison Oil & Gas management team have committed more than $500 million to launch another acquisition-minded explorer that would be focused on the Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin in Colorado and Wyoming. Bison has operated in the DJ since 2015, forming and monetizing several partnerships. Last year Civitas Resources Inc., the largest…

EOG Resources Inc., a multi-basin exploration and production firm, said its strong fourth quarter and full-year 2022 results were powered by robust natural gas and oil demand, price spikes and steady production activity. For the year, EOG said, the natural gas prices it fetched jumped 49% from a year earlier, while crude prices increased 42%.…

Private exploration and production (E&P) operator Poco Holdco LLC received Project Canary’s highest possible environmental assessment rating for most of its Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin operations in Colorado.  The E&P, a branch of private energy investment and management company Providence Energy Ltd., clinched Denver-based Project Canary’s “Platinum” certification for 22 operated horizontal wells at two wellsites. …

Minerals firm Sitio Royalties Corp. closed the books on a successful merger with Brigham Minerals Inc., combining “two of the largest public companies in the mineral and royalty sector,” the companies said. The $4.8 billion all-stock transaction has added 15,000 boe/d of oil-weighted pro forma production to Denver-based Sitio’s portfolio, which now stands at about…

Outrigger Energy II LLC has completed the sale of its midstream system in Weld County, CO, to Summit Midstream Partners LP. Summit Midstream previously said the deal was worth about $305 million total in cash. Outrigger’s Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin system includes a 60 MMcf/d cryogenic natural gas processing plant with product deliveries to the Cheyenne…

Sitio Royalties Corp. and Brigham Minerals Inc. said Tuesday they have agreed to merge in a roughly $4.8 billion, all-stock transaction. The combined firm would be the largest publicly traded mineral and royalty company in the United States, according to Sitio and Brigham. The plan is to focus on industry consolidation across diverse operators and…

Trailblazer Pipeline Co. LLC (TPC) and Rockies Express Pipeline LLC (REX) are moving through the regulatory process with plans to abandon the Trailblazer system and repurpose the infrastructure for carbon dioxide (CO2) transportation.  The two Tallgrass Energy Partners-owned midstreamers in late May filed plans for the abandonment project with FERC.  The plan involves abandoning 392…

A special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) chaired by former House Speaker Paul Ryan is teaming up with Dallas-based private equity (PE) firm Grey Rock Investment Partners to form a publicly traded Lower 48 exploration and production (E&P) company. Under the proposed transaction, Grey Rock would join forces with Ryan’s Executive Network Partnering Corp. (ENPC) to…