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Dorado Play: EOG's South Texas Gas Discovery
A&D Market Mid-Year Review: 2025 Deal Flow Analysis
Reservoir Engineering 101: A Primer for Investors
Most oil and gas investors can read an income statement and calculate a free cash flow yield. Fewer can evaluate whether an operator's stated EUR (estimated ultimate recovery) is reasonable, or whether a type curve is conservative or optimistic. That knowledge gap matters — because the entire economic foundation
EOG Resources: The Quiet Operator Setting the Standard
The Refinery Landscape and Crude Quality Demand
The U.S. shale revolution created an enormous surplus of light, sweet crude — the kind that flows easily from tight formations and commands a premium for its low sulfur content. But refineries are not interchangeable. A Gulf Coast coker complex designed around medium-sour Mexican or Venezuelan crude cannot simply substitute
Midstream Constraints: Where Upstream Growth Gets Bottlenecked
The U.S. upstream industry has demonstrated remarkable productivity gains over the past decade. Lateral lengths have doubled. Completion intensity has tripled. Well costs per foot of lateral have declined. And yet, periodically, the industry runs into a problem that no amount of drilling innovation can solve: infrastructure that can&
Chord Energy: Running the Bakken
Summer Heat and Power Demand: Natural Gas Upside?
The dog days of summer have arrived — and with them, a critical test for U.S. natural gas markets. Record heat across the South and Southwest is pushing power demand to multi-year highs, raising a question that investors have been wrestling with since the start of 2025: is this the
Federal Leasing Policy: Impact on Upstream Activity
Federal leasing policy for oil and gas is one of those topics that generates enormous political heat relative to its near-term operational impact — but where the long-term supply implications are genuinely significant. As of mid-2025, the industry is operating under a policy environment that has shifted considerably since 2021, and
Private Equity in the Patch: 2025 Status Report
Private equity's relationship with oil and gas upstream has never been more complicated. The wave of consolidation that swept the industry in 2023–2024 — culminating in ExxonMobil's $60 billion Pioneer acquisition and Diamondback's $26 billion Endeavor deal — was in large part a story about
Waha Hub: The Permian Gas Pricing Problem
The Waha Hub in West Texas became infamous in 2024 for something that sounded absurd until you understood the mechanics: natural gas prices went deeply negative. On multiple occasions throughout 2024, Waha spot prices fell below zero — meaning producers were effectively paying to have their gas taken away. By early
Q2 2025 Earnings: Results and Takeaways
Drilling Technology: What's Actually Moving the Needle
The upstream oil and gas industry is experiencing a genuine technological transformation — not the AI-hype version that fills press releases, but the kind measured in dollars per foot drilled, barrels produced per well, and days spud-to-TD. The numbers from 2023–2025 make the efficiency gains impossible to dismiss.
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