Homesick Majors Returning To The US; Wall Street Finally Finds Oasis; Halcon Update

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EPD announces a slight increase in its dividend/distribution.

Oasis is building Bakken oil acreage as Wall Street gushes. -- Investors.com, Investors Business Daily. But the story they report is an old, old story. It sure takes a long time for some folks to see these things.

From The Motley Fool:

ConocoPhillips plans on investing $3 billion over the next five years in the Permian Basin. It has 1 million net acres with 800 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent in the area.

Conoco plans on boosting production in the play by 40,000 boe/d through 2017 to help offset the decline of its older assets. Permian production growth won't be enough though, which is why it also set its sights up north.

In the Bakken play, Conoco plans on investing $4 billion over the next five years to explore its 626,000 net acre position in the area. The company sees 600 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent in the area and estimates production will rise 45,000 boe/d by 2017.

Even that won't be enough to offset declining base output, so Conoco decided to pull out the big guns.

In the Eagle Ford, Conoco is betting big with $8 billion being spent to push up production over the next five years. It has 227,000 net acres in the play with 1.8 billion barrels of recoverable oil equivalent. All of that oil has given Conoco over 1,800 locations to drill and as such forecasts an increase of 130,000 boe/d in production by 2017.

At SeekingAlpha:

Halcon Resources has seen its shares remain strong and not retreat as we anticipated. There has not been any news out but with the shares so beaten up and underperforming recently it's fair to reason that shorts may be covering or the winnings from other trades in the sector are finding their way into Halcon. Either way up is up, and as shareholders we have to be pleased, although we would have preferred to have seen the shares retreat back into our buying area so we could make another purchase. The company will report November 5th, so we have a while for another pullback but we do think that with all of the events in the Utica that this name might very well rally into its conference call as investors search for names offering value heading into earnings season.