Permian Basin: $60,000 An Acre, But A Gold Mine For Oil Drillers

lweb.es/f2664 02.09.2017

investors, Shale, USA

Record prices for drilling rights in the Permian Basin, the most fertile U.S. shale field – where wells can generate profit with crude selling for less than $40 a barrel – are prompting oil companies and private equity investors to look elsewhere for the next big gushers. Explorers eager to tap the basin’s mile-thick stack of oil-soaked rock layers have paid as much as $60,000 an acre. That marks a 50-fold explosion in deal prices over four years. It also pushes the cost 10 times higher than in the Bakken of North Dakota.

The Permian Outstripping Rival U.S. Oil Producing Regions

lweb.es/f1821 11.11.2016

investors, Shale, USA

Very informative charts help illustrate the extent to which the Permian basin is outstripping its rivals in terms of investor interest and deal flow. Confidence is not only illustrated in merger and acquisitions activity but also in how much companies are currently willing to invest in their own future. Capital expenditure plans are lower and less bullish than a year before, but operators are still displaying a greater level of confidence in being able to fund robust capex spends.