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Crude Oil Volatility Decreases

Crude Oil Volatility Decreases

Crude oil price volatility has declined since its peak in March according to a report from the EIA on May 10, 2016.

During the first three months of 2016, crude oil prices were relatively more volatile than in recent history. …

Banks Becoming Increasingly Wary of Energy Defaults

Banks Becoming Increasingly Wary of Energy Defaults

Median Debt to EBITDA is 3.6 Times across 77 U.S. E&P Companies: EnerCom Analytics

It happened when ‘lower for longer’ went from being a popular catch phrase to bitter reality. Today, bankruptcy has become an increasingly common word across the …

Sanchez Production Partners Announces First Quarter 2016 Earnings Conference Call

Sanchez Production Partners Announces First Quarter 2016 Earnings Conference Call

HOUSTON, TX  — Sanchez Production Partners LP(NYSE MKT: SPP)(“SPP” or the “Partnership”) today announced that it will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. Central Time (11:00 a.m. Eastern Time) on Monday, May 16, 2016 to discuss first …

May 5, 2016 - 6:38 pm Energy News, MLPs
New Oil Company Data Points and Operating Metrics Available on Oil & Gas 360®

New Oil Company Data Points and Operating Metrics Available on Oil & Gas 360®

Oil & Gas 360® has updated financial information for the energy companies listed on the home page. Companies who have reported results for the quarter ending 3/31/2016 have been updated and can be found on their respective 360 Profile …

EnerCom Named One of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms by Forbes Magazine

EnerCom Named One of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms by Forbes Magazine

EnerCom: 22 years of advising and serving energy-centric clients

DENVER – April 29, 2016 – Forbes Magazine (Forbes) commissioned an independent study by Statista to identify America’s Best Management Consulting Firms.  EnerCom, Inc. was recognized in the inaugural study in …

Hatch, Barrasso and Enzi Introduce Senate Bill to Stop Frac Regulation Duplicity

Energy Wins: Ted Cruz Picks Carly Fiorina as VP Running Mate

Both support fracing, expansion of drilling on federal lands, ending federal government over-regulation

It was announced by the Cruz campaign today. If the combination of Texas Senator Ted Cruz with former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as his VP …

Bam! It’s Earnings Season Again – Q1’16 Estimates

Bam! It’s Earnings Season Again – Q1’16 Estimates

Q1 Reporting Kicks Off Tomorrow for the Oil & Gas Industry

The first quarter closed on March 31 for most of the U.S. oil and gas companies, and earnings news releases and Q1 conference calls are about to hit hard …

TMS Pioneer Goodrich Petroleum Files Chapter 11 and Announces Plan for Restructuring

TMS Pioneer Goodrich Petroleum Files Chapter 11 and Announces Plan for Restructuring

On April 15, 2016, Goodrich Petroleum announced the company has filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. The RSA and the bankruptcy proceeding will allow for the restructuring of the Company’s balance sheet, which will strengthen …

EPA’s Latest Methane Inventory “Seriously Flawed”: API

EPA’s Latest Methane Inventory “Seriously Flawed”: API

The American Petroleum Institute called the EPA’s greenhouse gas inventory, “seriously flawed and inconsistent with previous EPA reports and other scientific research.” That is what Kyle Isakower, API vice president of regulatory and economic policy, told reporters in a …

Oil & Gas Jobs: Who is Hiring?

Oil & Gas Jobs: Who is Hiring?

Inspections are a Critical Link to Safety

There are critical positions that need to be filled in the energy sector, even in a downcycle. One growing area in oil and gas jobs is the need for qualified inspectors for oil …

Edge of the Wattenberg: Colorado: Weld County Just Created its Own Oil & Gas Department

Join the University of Colorado Denver Business School for an Open House April 14th

Global Energy Management Open House for Energy Professionals on April 14th 

The University of Colorado Denver Business School’s Global Energy Management (GEM) program is set to launch its 16th new class, which it calls “cohorts,” in July. In advance …

Global Growth 3%: S&P Market Intelligence

Global Growth 3%: S&P Market Intelligence

Economic Growth – Energy Sector “Punches above its Weight”

In a webinar today that was chaired by S&P Ratings Services economist Satyam Panday, the agency’s market intelligence arm made some predictions based on their current economic models.

growth crane downtown growth small - oil and gas 360Panday said that …

Energy Master’s Program Prepares Professionals for Company Leadership Roles

Energy Master’s Program Prepares Professionals for Company Leadership Roles

Hybrid Online Master’s Program Appeals to Industry Professionals Worldwide – Open House April 14th

The University of Colorado Denver Business School’s Global Energy Management (GEM) program is set to launch its 16th new class, which it calls “cohorts,” in …

Which E&Ps are Paying Dividends?

Which E&Ps are Paying Dividends?

Many energy companies have elected to reduce or suspend dividends over the course of 2015, but not everyone. On March 29, 2016, SM Energy (ticker: SM; SM-Energy.com) announced that the board of directors had approved a semi-annual cash dividend …

Whiting Petroleum’s Deep Look at the Bakken-Three Forks Oil Play

Whiting Petroleum’s Deep Look at the Bakken-Three Forks Oil Play

“Whiting’s Wildcatters: Micro Scale, Macro Vision” – An Oil & Gas 360® Exclusive Video Report

Whiting Petroleum Corporation’s (ticker: WLL) geoscience team has taken a macro-approach by taking a microscopic view of the way oil flows through the rocks in …

February 25, 2016 - 4:28 pm Exploration and Production (E&P), Videos
Synergy Resources CEO Lynn Peterson: an Exclusive Interview with Oil & Gas 360®

Synergy Resources CEO Lynn Peterson: an Exclusive Interview with Oil & Gas 360®

A new chief executive lands in the Wattenberg: the former Kodiak CEO talks about a new company culture, acquisition strategy and his go-forward road map for the ‘core Wattenberg’

Life before Synergy 

Lynn Peterson was an independent oilman from 1986 …

Crude Exports, LNG and NatGas: Part II with NAPIA and Energy Directions President Mike Smolinski

Crude Exports, LNG and NatGas: Part II with NAPIA and Energy Directions President Mike Smolinski

In this second and final part of our exclusive interview, NAPIA and Energy Directions President Mike Smolinski talks about the effect of growing U.S. crude oil and LNG exports on global markets and refining, the effect of $2.50 natural gas …

Shell Just Became the World’s Number Two Energy Company

Shell Just Became the World’s Number Two Energy Company

Shell now controls 16% of the world’s LNG market, becomes the largest independent producer of LNG

Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS.B; www.shell.com) has leap frogged to the second largest publicly traded energy company in the world following the completion …

Oil Supply & Demand: an Interview with NAPIA and Energy Directions President Mike Smolinski

Oil Supply & Demand: an Interview with NAPIA and Energy Directions President Mike Smolinski

In this multi-part interview, NAPIA and Energy Directions President Mike Smolinski talks about oil demand, supply, price shocks, and a coming rebalance, with a detailed look at how today’s oil market fundamentals will affect U.S. oil and gas producers, oilservice …

PetroQuest Energy’s Debt Exchange Works to Build Long-Term Value

PetroQuest Energy’s Debt Exchange Works to Build Long-Term Value

On January 14, 2015, PetroQuest Energy (ticker: PQ) took appropriate steps addressing its current $350 million senior unsecured 10% high-yield issue (CUSIP 716748AA6) due in September 2017.

PetroQuest will seek to offer to exchange up to $300 million of the …

Energy Producers – Don’t Ever Underestimate the Environmental Activists

Energy Producers – Don’t Ever Underestimate the Environmental Activists

The warning for energy producers in Colorado came from Christopher Guith, senior vice president for policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy.

Guith’s warning was delivered during a panel discussion with a group of …

Spring Borrowing Base Redeterminations: a Preview

Spring Borrowing Base Redeterminations: a Preview

Haynes and Boone polled banks, producers, private equity firms, professional services and oilservice companies in January to take an early pulse of the spring redetermination expectations from the industry and the financial institutions supplying the credit.

Key findings by Haynes …

Whiting Petroleum’s Geoscientists are Helping Build a Smarter Oil Company: a Look Behind the Scenes at the Bakken-Three Forks Oil Play

Whiting Petroleum’s Geoscientists are Helping Build a Smarter Oil Company: a Look Behind the Scenes at the Bakken-Three Forks Oil Play

“Whiting’s Wildcatters: Micro Scale, Macro Vision” – An Oil & Gas 360® Exclusive Video Report

It’s a tough market for the oil companies, but Whiting Petroleum Corporation (ticker: WLL) has figured something out.

While oil and gas companies across the …

Watch it Here:  “Whiting’s Wildcatters: Micro Scale, Macro Vision”

Watch it Here: “Whiting’s Wildcatters: Micro Scale, Macro Vision”

What does Whiting Petroleum (ticker: WLL) do differently from other producers? What process inside Whiting has begun to land some of …

January 6, 2016 - 3:15 pm Feature Stories
Whiting Petroleum: New Oil & Gas 360® Documentary to Look at Bakken’s Top Producer

Whiting Petroleum: New Oil & Gas 360® Documentary to Look at Bakken’s Top Producer

Whiting Petroleum (ticker: WLL), the largest Bakken/Three Forks producer, will be featured in a mini-documentary that will be released on Oil & Gas 360® at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, January 12, 2016.…

The Oil Industry’s Lumpy Year

The Oil Industry’s Lumpy Year

If you look at the number of jobs lost, company market value lost, and the growing numbers of oil patch bankruptcies, 2015’s continued commodities price fall led to a lot of bangs and bruises in the oil and gas industry. …

Manitok Energy Announces Brokered Private Placement

Manitok Energy Announces Brokered Private Placement

Manitok Energy Inc. Announces Brokered Private Placement of Up to $20 Million

Manitok Energy Inc. (ticker: MEI) has entered into a letter agreement with syndicate of agents co-led by Integral Capital Markets, a division of Integral Wealth Securities Limited and …

December 17, 2015 - 12:52 pm 360 Profile Company, Canada, Closing Bell Story‎, Finance
Fracing Has Become a Litmus Test of Principle

Fracing Has Become a Litmus Test of Principle

Rupert Murdoch: a man who believes America is exceptional

The following are Rupert Murdoch’s remarks to the Hudson Institute, Nov. 30, 2015 – published with permission of the author

Before I thank you Henry [Kissinger], and before delivering my modest …

What do the Most Successful Energy Companies Have in Common?

What do the Most Successful Energy Companies Have in Common?

ANSWER: Smart people, strong leadership, and a relentless drive to create success.

Peek behind the front doors of the companies finding, producing, transporting and transforming energy.

While oil and gas companies across the planet are battling a commodities price environment …

December 10, 2015 - 5:10 pm Oil and Gas 360 Articles
Happy Thanksgiving to Our Clients, Friends, Colleagues and Partners

Happy Thanksgiving to Our Clients, Friends, Colleagues and Partners

Dear Clients, Friends, Colleagues, and Partners:

Happy Thanksgiving.

EnerCom started 22 years ago with a single purpose – to provide needed consulting services to a worldwide client base in the oil and gas sector. Today, we engage with energy companies …

November 24, 2015 - 6:49 pm Closing Bell Story‎, People