Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - April 2014

Cover Story

The Williston Basin

Bakken and Three Forks producers are changing up their completion techniques in some parts of the 1-million-barrel-per-day basin and considering future pay from yet other zones.

Feature

Beyond The Audit

As oil and gas companies continue to grow, accounting firms have gone from being service providers to partners.

Encana Drills Deep In Search Of High-Return Liquids

We constructed composite type curves based on limited reported activity from Encana’s wells to demonstrate the effect of these high drilling and completion costs on the economic viability of each play.

Private Outlook

Private-equity-backed E&Ps are building new oil plays amid heated competition with public models.

Restructuring Buyside Advisory

Some investment decisions, however, suffer from a lack of adequate insight and intelligence that would be afforded by more experienced boots on the ground.

Retooling Chesapeake

Doug Lawler took the helm of Chesapeake Energy Corp. determined to drive value creation through tighter financial control, focus on core exploration and competitive capital allocation.

Trading Places

Policymakers must weigh the oil industry's campaign for an end to 40 years of crude export restrictions against a national mindset of energy insecurity.

At Closing

Bright Spots

Cumming Discusses Entrepreneurship

Kevin Cumming and Jim Goddard founded Expedition Water Solutions Inc. in December 2013.

Capital Markets

Completions

First Tracks On Air

E&P Momentum

From the Editor-in-Chief

The Cost Of High Costs

Investors and CEOs are questioning the high cost of high costs.

Legends

Engineer Discusses Industry Problems, Solutions

George King began his engineering career as soon as he could walk and take things apart.