Tuesday, August 28, 2012

History of Mergers and Acquisitions During the Bakken Boom

This is just a place holder for now. This page is under construction; as such there are errors, omissions. 

Disclaimer: this is not an investment site. This is here for archival purposes only.

Abraxas - NRP, June 17, 2013; 13,500 net acres for $35 million cash

WLL up for sale?, September 14, 2012

Chevron cash fuels talk of deal, WSJ, August 28, 2012

XOM - DNR, September 20, 2012
  • Encore --> DNR --> XOM
QEP - Helis/Black Hills Corp/Sandance/Unit Corp
  • Announced August 24, 2012
  • $1.38 billion
  • 27,600 acres; little else
  • $20,000 - $40,000/acre
Halcon - GEOI
  • announced April 25, 2012
  • $1 billion
  • 46,000 acres (based on my data which may be incorrect)
  • $1 billion/46,000 --> $22,000/acre but there were producing assets, other assets; thus lowering this number
  • HK paid $20 cash + 1.932 of its shares for each GEOI share; valued the company at $38/share; a 23% premium on day of announcement
  • after announcement, GEOI rose > 18% to an all-time high of $36.41
  • GEOI has been publicly trading since the late 1970s
VOG - Emerald Oil
  • announced July 11, 2012
  • VOG acquires Emerald Oil; will operate as Emerald Oil
Statoil - BEXP
  • all assets
Hess - Tracker, American Energy (AEZ)
  • all assets
  • American Oil and Gas: 85,000 acres to the deal
  • Tracker: 167,000 acres to the deal
Eternal Energy - American Eagle
  • Eternal Energy merges with American Eagle, together a $37 million company
OXY USA - Anschutz

Denbury-Encore

Magnum Hunter - Baytex
  • Baytex sells 50,400 net Bakken acreage to Magnum Hunter
KOG - North Plains
  • 50,000 net acres
MDU (Fidelity) - Oasis
  • MDU sells some of its acreage to Oasis; much of it in MDU's Cottonwood field
XOM - XTO
  • announced December, 2009
  • $41 billion deal
  • not quite similar to others among the Bakken deals (see first comment below)
  • a natural gas play
  • XTO's assets in the Bakken just a small part of XTO's overall assets
XTO - Headington
  • in 2007 time-frame (see comments)
  • $1.9 billion
  • XTO buys Headington assets in Montana and North Dakota Bakken
WPX buys 7% of the reservation