The Importance of Financial Management to the Oil and Energy Industry
Financial management is crucial to the oil and energy industry. It is so because such an industry requires massive investments in fixed assets and heavy...
Investments
M&A Activity in the Permian Helps Ride Out Oil Crisis and Strengthen Operators for Recovery Scenario
Following the news of the merger between Devon Energy and WPX Energy; Steven Ho, Oil and Gas Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company,...
Energy Private Equity Valuation In A COVID-19 World
As private equity fund managers assess the economic impact of COVID-19, developing reliable valuation processes and procedures for their investments will ensure transparency to regulators...
Reserve-Based Lending: What Went Wrong?
Have the underlying metrics behind reserve reports proved to be overly optimistic for oil and gas companies seeking reserve-based lending (RBL)? Reserve-based lending (RBL)...
Why Unsecured Creditor Committees Matter
With the oil price dipping into negative numbers, there is a serious question about whether oil and gas companies can weather the storm of oversupply...
ESG: When Divesting Fossil Fuels From Portfolios Causes More Harm Than Good
Why divesting fossil fuels in the name of climate change may in fact be short-sighted and harm the larger sustainable positive strides energy companies are...
Deal Flow of Q2
After NAPE, everyone gets together, they decide collectively to put their assets on the market. Everyone gets excited that deals are being marketed and put...
Shorter Cycle Investments to Characterize Oil and Gas Industry in 2020
Oil and gas operators globally will continue to push for faster returns with shorter cycle investments, as the industry moves away from giant developments, according...
Battling the Problem of Aging Infrastructure and Regulatory Compliance
It is no secret that infrastructure in the oil and gas industry isn’t getting any younger. Climate change, urbanization, migration, and population growth put further...
