Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - August 2016

Cover Story

Bakken At $50

In the oldest fracked horizontal tight-oil play, operators are leveraging years of experience to make new wells work at today's prices.

Bakken At $50

In the oldest fracked horizontal tight-oil play, operators are leveraging years of experience to make new wells work at today’s prices.

Feature

A Time To Buy

Reloaded with a full powder horn of private capital, EnerVest’s John Walker is bagging trophies.

Deeper For Cheaper

The founder of New Prospect Co. has turned a start-up two months before the ’80s oil glut into 35 years and counting.

Private Equity Craftsmen

Vortus Investments and Post Oak Energy Capital provide lower-to middle market investments to the upstream sector.

Resourceful E&Ps

These three companies are finding new ways to drive down costs, increase productivity and boost returns.

The $2 Trillion Revolution

There were diverse ways to win in the shale boom—and just as many ways to lose.

The Future Of US LNG...Imports

Who will dominate LNG imports to the U.S. in the coming years?

Three Distinct Strategies

At DUG East, up-and-comers backed by private equity offered peeks into their playbooks.

A&D Trends

Tokyo Shift

Japan’s largest natural gas utility remains a player in the shales.

At Closing

The Recovery Is Percolating

The industry recovery has moved from the back to the front burner.

Bright Spots

Meet Doug Rogers

A native of Springfield, Oregon, Rogers graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in chemical engineering. While the university doesn’t have a petroleum program, it has several well-known authors of oil and gas texts on its faculty and is a recruiting base for ExxonMobil.

Completions

Investing Through Cycles

If the industry has hit bottom, now may be a good time to buy E&P stocks.

E&P Momentum

Going Long In The Utica

Longer laterals are part of the rapidly evolving recipe for capital efficiency.

From the Editor-in-Chief

Then And Now

Investor debuted 35 years ago, in an environment not unlike today’s cycle.

On the Money

Many Moving Parts

Brexit, global demand concerns and new lending guidelines add complexities to a recovery.