Thursday, January 30, 2025

New Executive Interviews from EnerCom’s The Oil & Gas Conference® 19

Industry Leaders Discuss Global Operations, Company Growth, M&A, and Emerging Trends in these Exclusive One-on-One Video Interviews with Oil & Gas 360®  EnerCom, Inc. today posted an executive video interview series on Oil & Gas 360®, the company’s one-stop source of oil and gas news, information and analysis. More than 25 company executives participated in one-on-one interviews with Oil &

Strategic Oil & Gas: An Asteroid Crater is this Canadian Junior’s Ticket for Growth

Unconventional drilling and varied completion techniques are receiving plenty of attention from E&Ps in the ever-growing shale market. Shale play hot spots have emerged in turn with drilling advancements, and the majority of producers mention what they learn from their peers. Strategic Oil & Gas (ticker: SOG.TO), however, went a truly unconventional direction. The company is exploiting an asteroid crater

What to Expect from EnerCom’s The Oil & Gas Conference 19®

For the 19th year, analysts, investors and industry professionals will descend on Denver, Colorado, for EnerCom’s annual installment of The Oil & Gas Conference. The event started as a one day affair in August of 1996, with eight company presenters and 86 people in attendance. Eighteen years later, the Conference has grown to the largest Oil & Gas investor conference

Bellatrix Exploration on Track to Maintain 100% Year-over-Year Growth

Bellatrix Exploration Ltd. (ticker: BXE) is a Calgary-based E&P operating in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. The majority of operations are focused on the Cardium tight oil play in Alberta – an area that has boosted production rates tenfold since 2008. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has revitalized the region and current estimates place recoverable reserves of the Cardium at

Oil & Gas 360 Earnings Season

PDC Energy Accelerates its Liquids-Focused Growth Strategy with Marcellus Divestiture

This week PDC Energy (ticker: PDCE) announced the sale of its Marcellus shale assets for approximately $250 million to its Marcellus partner Mountaineer Keystone Energy, LLC. With the divesture of its approximate 131,000 net Marcellus acres, PDC’s focus now moves sharply onto two liquid rich plays—97,000 net acres in the Wattenberg Field in Colorado and 67,000 net acres in the

Will Northern Gateway Beat Keystone XL to the Finish Line?

On June 17, the Canadian federal government approved the pipeline portion of Enbridge Incorporated’s (ticker: ENB) Northern Gateway Project, a $6.1 billion crude oil and condensate pipeline and marine terminal that was proposed in 2010. Canada’s petroleum producers are eager to find an alternative to the nearly six-year delayed approval of the Keystone XL project. At the Canadian American Business’ conference on June

Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Upton’s “Architecture of Abundance”

During the EIA Energy Conference last week, July 14 to July 15, Michigan’s Representative Fred Upton (R) gave a speech about his ideal energy future. He called his plan the “Architecture of Abundance.” It is  a plan with five pillars: Modernizing infrastructure Maintaining diverse electricity generation Permitting a manufacturing renaissance Harnessing energy efficiency and innovation, and Unleashing energy diplomacy. Upton

Keystone XL: 2,119 Days and Counting

20,000 U.S. Jobs, $7B Project Stuck in Limbo As of July 9, the Keystone Project has been studied for 2,119 days, according to the House Energy and Commerce Committee. No other pipeline has taken so long to gain approval. On July 8, 44 diverse organizations, from businesses to labor unions, sent a letter supporting the speedy approval of TransCanada’s Keystone

Bellatrix Exploration: An Introduction to a Company at the Forefront of Canada’s Oil Revival

Bellatrix Exploration Ltd. (ticker: BXE) is a Calgary-based E&P operating in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. Its main targets are the Cardium and Notikewin/Falher intervals located near Edmonton. The company was formed in 2009 through a plan of arrangement with True Energy Trust and now trades on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NYSE MKT. Bellatrix was producing roughly

British Columbia Seeking Investment in its LNG Opportunities but Costs, Russia Raise Concern

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is being touted as the next major movement in the energy industry. Supermajors like Chevron (ticker: CVX), ExxonMobil (ticker: XOM) and Shell (ticker: RDS.B) are investing billions to build up LNG networks while scaling back on more conventional opportunities. The catalyst for such a movement lies overseas in the energy-starved markets of Asia and Europe. In

Federal Reserve Keeps Credit Ratings, Economy in Limbo as Oil & Gas Pushes Onward

March Madness may be recognized as the most exhilarating tournament in sports, but spectators simultaneously viewing the stock market with the Federal Reserve news conference on March 19, 2014, were treated to a roller coaster ride of their own. The market hung on every word spoken during Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen’s debut until the organization insisted it will maintain the

Asia-Pacific Loads Up on LNG for Long-Term; Ukraine Crisis Clouds Global Short-Term Situation

The United States energy market has big decisions ahead of it: Do we export oil? How do we safely transport crude oil across our country? Should we build the Keystone pipeline? And perhaps more captivating is what the industry/country should do with the tremendous amounts of natural gas we’ve untapped. The natural gas landscape continues to make headlines by means