Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - January 2015
Cover Story
Emerging Plays, 2015
New oil plays are focused on the stacked pay of the Midcontinent’s Meramec, Springer and Canyon Lime. In the Permian Basin, a prospect is to be drilled soon in the lightly explored Orogrande Basin.
Feature
Activists' Hunting Season
The activists are at the shooting range. Here’s how to avoid becoming the “slow antelope.”
Big Growth, Challenges Ahead
Grant Thornton LLP’s survey of E&P companies measures industry sentiment.
By The Numbers: Encana's Permian Acquisition
We believe that Encana will shift from vertical to horizontal development in the acquired assets.
California Spinoff
Emerging from the vaults of Occidental Petroleum, newly traded California Resources is flush with oil, leveraged and facing a soft commodity price. Will the market move on California dreamin’?
Changes Open New Doors To LNG
The CEO of Texas LNG LLC says the LNG world has changed dramatically, opening the way for smaller companies to compete.
Counting On The Counter-Cyclical
If high-yield and equity markets can’t be accessed, mezzanine may offer a solution—especially in a low commodity price environment.
Enemy At The Cybergate
As proprietors of coveted intellectual property and critical national infrastructure, upstream oil and gas companies are susceptible to cyberespionage and sabotage.
Fast-Growing Maple Leaf
Bellatrix Exploration’s Deep Basin returns rival any oil and gas play in North America.
Lost: The Final Session
Even though Republicans have taken back Congress, deep divisions remain. Oil and gas companies will live with the consequences of the partisan rivalry.
Social Media Drilldown
Only the federal government has a worse image with the public than the oil and gas industry. Here’s how a social media strategy can help.
The Journey To Designer Wells
Every well drilled should make the next well better. Here’s how prescriptive analytics software is helping operators accomplish this goal.
Weathering The Storm
Some E&Ps are better equipped than others to reach a safe haven amid falling crude prices. Here are some expected to perform well.
A&D Trends
D-J Values Trend Up
In 2010 and 2011, winners and losers in the acreage rush emerged.
At Closing
Coring Up, Casting Off
Continental Resources' Harold Hamm said that the company views 'the recent downdraft in oil prices as unsustainable given the lack of fundamental change in supply and demand.'
Bright Spots
Meet Ryan Keys
Work on consortiums in several U.S. shales provided "perfect training" for his current work at Jefferies.
Completions
Defensive Line
'Playing defense' is a strategy producers can use to combat price volatility, said Chris Lang of Asset Risk Management.
Defensive Line
Play defense. That’s a strategy producers can use to lessen exposure to commodity price volatility in 2015, says Chris Lang of Asset Risk Managment's hedge advisory service.
E&P Momentum
Alphabet Forecasting
What started in mid-November 2014 as anticipation that the industry would drill through a V-shaped recovery has morphed, post-OPEC, into expectations of a U-shaped downturn with a bottom in the first half of 2015.
From the Editor-in-Chief
The New Reality In 2015
Aggregate output from the Lower 48, Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico has increased by 13.3% in the past year.
The New Reality In 2015
This nasty oil price correction was inevitable, probably even needed, though it is going to be painful for a while.
Legends
Chatting With Bob Schwartz
Bob Schwartz is working to open the Houston office of Seattle-based boutique investment banking firm Cascadia Capital LLC.
On the Money
New Pressures In The New Oil Order
There’s no shortage of forces working to destabilize many countries whose economies are largely dependent on oil.
Regional Report
Mexico: A Special Report From Oil and Gas Investor and Global Business Reports
Mexico's Energy Reform: an opportunity in three generations