- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 3, 2019
ConocoPhillips completes $2.7B sale of UK E&P units
ConocoPhillips this week completed its previously announced transaction to sell two ConocoPhillips UK subsidiaries to private equity-backed Chrysaor E&P Ltd. for $2.68 billion, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 1, 2019
Westy buying Rolls-Royce civil nuclear systems and services
Nuclear energy icon Westinghouse Electric Co. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rolls-Royce’s Civil Nuclear Systems and Services business in North America, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 19, 2019
Eco-Energy buys gathering/processing/terminal assets
Tennessee-based biofuel company Eco-Energy has acquired the Stone Mountain gathering pipeline system, Stone Mountain processing facility and the Stone Mountain rail terminal from Continuum Energy Services for an undisclosed price.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 10, 2019
Eia: Florida shifts to natural gas for electricity
Florida is rapidly turning to natural gas to produce its electricity, Kallanish Energy reports. Florida has added 16 gigawatts of utility-scale natural gas-fired electric generation between 2008 and 2018, about 24% of all U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 6, 2019
Xom to sell Norway assets for $4B
U.S. giant ExxonMobil has agreed to the sale of its oil and gas assets in Norway for $4 billion, Reuters reported Thursday, citing three sources familiar with the matter.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 28, 2019
Tallgrass acknowledges buyout proposal from Blackstone
Tallgrass Energy (Tge) LP late Tuesday evening said its general partner’s board has received a non-binding offer from Blackstone Infrastructure Partners to acquire all outstanding Class A shares in Tallgrass not already owned, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 22, 2019
Wood to sell nuclear business for $302M to cut debt
Wood Plc has agreed to sell its nuclear business for 250 million pounds ($302 million), as it cuts debt associated with the 2017 acquisition of Amec Foster Wheeler and a prolonged oil-price slump, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 22, 2019
Refiner Motiva moves into petrochemicals
Motiva Enterprises said this week it’s buying the Flint Hills Resources chemical plant adjacent to its Port Arthur, Texas, oil refinery, marking its entry into petrochemicals, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 9, 2019
NGL Energy Partners sells refined products assets
NGL Energy Partners announced it’s selling TransMontaigne Product Services (Tpsl) and associated assets to an unnamed buyer for roughly $300 million, including equity consideration, inventory and net working capital, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 9, 2019
Oxy sells $13B of debt to help fund Anadarko buy
Occidental Petroleum sold $13 billion of debt to help finance its acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. after receiving over $75 billion in orders for the deal at the peak, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 8, 2019
Oxy completes $55 billion deal for Anadarko
Occidental Petroleum announced this morning the completion of its $55 billion acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum, including debt assumption, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 7, 2019
Caliber buys Bakken assets from American Midstream
Caliber Midstream Holdings said Tuesday it’s acquired Bakken assets in North Dakota from American Midstream Partners for an undisclosed price, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 31, 2019
TC Energy selling gas-fired power plants for $2.87B
TC Energy said Tuesday it’s entered into a deal via its TransCanada Energy Ltd. unit to sell interests in three Ontario natural gas-fired power plants to a subsidiary of Ontario Power Generation for roughly $2.87 billion, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 26, 2019
Icahn wins ISS support for initial step to shake up Oxy
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn’s effort to shake up Occidental Petroleum’s board got a boost from a prominent shareholder advisory firm Thursday, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 25, 2019
Presidio completes asset acquisition from Apache
Presidio Investment Holdings this week announced it’s completed the acquisition of all oil- and natural gas-producing properties in the western Anadarko Basin of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas from Apache Corp.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 24, 2019
Qatar Petroleum enters blocks offshore Kenya
State-owned oil firm Qatar Petroleum announced Tuesday the acquisition of interests in three blocks in offshore Kenya, Kallanish Energy reports. The L11A, L11B and L12 blocks are located in the Lamu Basin, in the eastern part of the country, covering 5,790 square miles in water depths between 3,280 feet and 9,840 feet in the Indian Ocean.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 12, 2019
Six minutes alter direction of U.S.’s largest gas producer
It wasn’t hard to figure out the backers of the two sides in the proxy battle between independent producer EQT and dissidents known as the Rice Team Wednesday morning, at the long-awaited annual meeting.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 4, 2019
Africa Oil in South African block farmout
Canadian firm African Oil announced Wednesday a farmout agreement with Namibian company Azinam Ltd. to acquire interests in a block offshore South Africa, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 3, 2019
UGI unit acquiring Columbia Midstream for $1.28B
UGI Corp. has announced its UGI Energy Services unit is acquiring Columbia Midstream Group (Cmg) from a subsidiary of TC Energy for roughly $1.28 billion, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 2, 2019
Marathon Oil closes sale of UK business
Marathon Oil Corp. said Monday the company has closed on the sale of its U.K. business, which consists of the Brae area fields and Foinaven, to UK independent producer RockRose Energy PLC for $95 million.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 1, 2019
EQT wins support in proxy fight with Rice Bros
Just as EQT Corp. is at odds with remnants of Rice Energy, which it acquired in 2017 and became the U.S.’s largest natural gas producer, independent proxy advisory services firms have now come out on opposite sides of the ongoing proxy battle.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 28, 2019
Proxy advisory firm backs dissidents against EQT
Well-known proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (Iss) has issued a report recommending EQT Corp. shareholders elect all seven dissident board nominees advocated by the so-called Rice Team, along with the five EQT nominees backed by the dissidents, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 28, 2019
I Squared Capital to Sell Cube Hydro to Ontario Power
I Squared Capital, through its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund I, announced this week it’s selling its hydropower operations, Cube Hydro Partners, and its affiliate, Helix Partners, to Ontario Power Generation (Opg) for an undisclosed price.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 28, 2019
W&T Offshore acquiring Xom assets in GoM for $200M
W&T Offshore said Thursday it’s acquiring ExxonMobil’s interests in and operatorship of oil- and gas-producing properties in the eastern region of the Gulf of Mexico, offshore Alabama, and related onshore processing facilities for $200 million, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 26, 2019
Icahn rips Oxy’s board for treating shareholders like ‘peasants’
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn ripped Occidental Petroleum Tuesday, criticizing the independent producer’s board, Kallanish Energy reports. He criticized corporate boards in general that treat “shareholders [as] necessary peasants who represent a necessary evil that must be tolerated, possibly patronized, but certainly ignored.” “The recent Occidental Petroleum fiasco is a great example of how CEOs and boards will go to great lengths, including ‘betting the company’ to serve their own agendas,” Icahn said, in a statement.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 26, 2019
Pseg Power selling interest in coal-fired plants
Public Service Enterprise Group’s Pseg Power unit has agreed to sell its 776-megawatt, or 21.66%, interest in the Keystone and Conemaugh coal-fired power plants in Western Pennsylvania, plus related assets, including the assumption of liabilities.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 25, 2019
Arlp acquiring Permian O&G mineral interests for $145M
Alliance Resource Partners LP (Arlp) Monday announced it’s acquiring oil and gas mineral interests from Wing Resources LLC and Wing Resources II LLC for $145 million in cash, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 21, 2019
Development Capital forms $165M JV in the Permian
Development Capital Resources (Dcr) said this week a company unit, capitalized by funds managed by affiliates of Ares Management, has entered into a drilling and development joint venture with a private operator in the Permian Basin, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 20, 2019
Chisholm O&G, Gastar Exploration merging
A pair of independent producers, Chisholm Oil and Gas of Oklahoma, and Gastar Exploration of Houston, which exited Chapter 11 just five months ago, announced Wednesday they’re merging, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 14, 2019
TPG, Glendale partner to buy non-operated assets
Global finance/investment firm TPG Sixth Street and private oil and gas producer Glendale Energy Ventures announced a new oil and gas investment partnership with an initial $500 million in capital commitments.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 12, 2019
Shell to sell California refinery for $1B
Oil supermajor Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to sell its Martinez, California, refinery, 30 miles northeast of San Francisco, to independent refiner PBF Energy for up to $1 billion, the two companies announced Tuesday, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 7, 2019
Gazprom Neft signs with Novatek, Shell
Russia’s third largest oil producer, Gazprom Neft, Thursday revealed three joint ventures to develop hydrocarbon projects in Russia, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 5, 2019
Total acquires Toshiba’s US LNG portfolio & collects $800M
French oil major Total has signed a deal with Japan’s Toshiba to take over its portfolio of liquefied natural gas assets, a deal which actually will put $800 million in Total’s pocket, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 4, 2019
Petrobras to sell onshore fields
Brazilian multinational corporation Petrobras Monday launched the sale of two sets of onshore concessions, Kallanish Energy learns. The concessions are located in the northeastern state of Bahia, where Petrobras is operator and fully owns all but two concessions.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 3, 2019
Icahn challenges Oxy’s ‘hugely overpriced’ Anadarko deal
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn last week filed a lawsuit against Occidental Petroleum, looking for board seats and eventually a sale of the company, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 30, 2019
Tortoise acquires Piper’s midstream advisory business
Investment firm Tortoise Capital Advisors said Wednesday it’s acquiring the midstream asset management business of Advisory Research Inc. from parent company Piper Jaffray Cos.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 29, 2019
Atlantic Power selling gas-fired Manchief peaker
Independent power producer Atlantic Power Corp. said Tuesday it’s selling its Manchief power plant to Public Service Company of Colorado for $45.2 million, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 20, 2019
Rice Team revises EQT board slate to 7 from 9
Toby Z. Rice and Derek A. Rice, EQT shareholders trying to wrest control from the executives and board of the U.S.’s largest natural gas producer, said last week they’re reducing the size of their slate of nominees for the EQT board to seven from nine, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 10, 2019
EQT uses stick & carrot against Rice-led dissidents
EQT Corp. is not a Mom-and-Pop natural gas producer – and can’t be run like one – the board’s independent members said, in effect, to dissident shareholders looking to insert their board nominees into the operations of the U.S.’s largest gas producer.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 9, 2019
Chevron Leaves the Altar with $1B, Waves Goodbye to Anadarko
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- May 9, 2019
Chevron walking away from Anadarko, with $1B in its pocket
In a much expected move, oil supermajor Chevron said this morning it will not counter the higher bid made for Anadarko Petroleum by Occidental Petroleum, contrent to walk away from the deal with a $1 billion breakup fee, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 7, 2019
Anadarko tells Chevron it’s been replaced
Anadarko Petroleum’s board said Monday Occidental Petroleum’s buyout offer is “superior” to its purchase deal with Chevron, Kallanish Energy reports. The oil supermajor is now on the clock.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 6, 2019
Occidental revises Anadarko bid, offers mostly cash
Occidental Petroleum, continues to tinker with its offer to buy Anadarko Petroleum, late Sunday putting a revised bid in front of the independent producer, offering mostly cash as it looks to wrest its prey from Chevron, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 30, 2019
SEC alleges insider trading in Chevron-Anadarko deal
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Monday announced it secured a court-ordered freezing of assets related to alleged insider trading that yielded roughly $2.5 million in profit connected to the April 12 announcement Chevron was acquiring Anadarko Petroleum.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 26, 2019
Pbfx buys 50% interest in Calif. pipeline firm
PBF Logistics (Pbfx) said it’s acquiring the 50% interest it doesn’t already own in the Torrance Valley Pipeline Co. (Tvpc) from an affiliate of its sponsor, refiner PBF Energy, for roughly $200 million in cash, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 26, 2019
Rice sues to block EQT from undercutting board slate
Toby Rice has filed a lawsuit accusing EQT Corp. of trying to confuse shareholders in Rice and his group’s ongoing proxy battle with the company that bought Rice Energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 25, 2019
Occidental Petroleum Offers 14% More than Chevron to Buy Anadarko
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- April 25, 2019
Oxy trumps Chevron’s Anadarko bid, could ignite bidding war
Occidental Petroleum, which has been in informal discussions with Anadarko Petroleum for nearly two years, Wednesday publicly bid $76 a share for the independent producer, topping by 17% an offer by Chevron made roughly two weeks ago.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 25, 2019
Shell in talks to buy BP stake in North Sea gas field: sources
Royal Dutch Shell is in talks to buy BP’s stake in the Shearwater oil and gas field in the British North Sea for roughly $250 million, three industry sources told Reuters.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 24, 2019
Sempra completes $2.5B sale of U.S. renewables, gas storage assets
Energy infrastructure company Sempra Energy has completed the sale of its U.S. renewables business and non-utility natural gas storage assets for roughly $2.5 billion in cash, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 24, 2019
Murphy announces $1.38B deepwater Gulf of Mexico acquisition
Murphy Oil Corp. announced its Murphy Exploration & Production Company – USA unit is acquiring deepwater Gulf of Mexico assets from LLOG Exploration Offshore and LLOG Bluewater Holdings for $1.38 billion in cash, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 23, 2019
Southern Power selling wood-fired plant for $460M
Southern Co.’s Southern Power wholesale energy provider unit is selling the Nacogdoches Generating Facility to community utility Austin (Texas) Energy for $460 million, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 22, 2019
Will Chevron Dump its M-U Assets to Chase Permian Black Gold?
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- April 15, 2019
Permian Love Story: Chevron Buying Anadarko in $50B Megamerger
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- April 12, 2019
Brightmark closes $260M financing for plastics-to-fuel plant
Waste and energy development company Brightmark Energy Thursday announced the closing of a $260 million financing package for construction of the nation’s first commercial-scale plastics-to-fuel plant, to be built in Ashley, Indiana.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 28, 2019
Allete closes $270M sale of U.S. Water Services
Minnesota-based energy company Allete said Wednesday it’s closed the $270 million sale of U.S. Water Services to Kurita Water Industries Ltd., a Japan-based water-management company.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 22, 2019
Denbury/Penn Virginia Merger Aborted – PV Shareholder Resistance
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- March 22, 2019
Rice brothers announce director nominees for EQT board
Toby Z. and Derek A. Rice have delivered on a months-ago promise to EQT Corp.’s board and management to run their own people to man the independent producer’s board.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 22, 2019