Three Wells Coming Off Confidential List; Thirty-Two Active Rigs -- January 14, 2022

Tesla: stumbles. 

Amazon: can it get any bigger?

Market: everything's on sale. 

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Back to the Bakken

Active rigs:

$82.07	1/14/2022	01/14/2021	01/14/2020	01/14/2019	01/14/2018
Active Rigs	32	11	51	67	55

Friday, January 14, 2022: 18 for the month, 18 for the quarter, 18 for the year

• 38396, conf, CLR, Dvirnak 10-7HSL1,
• 37233, conf, Bruin, Wm Polar 157-101-24D-13-3B,
• 37132, conf, Hess, BL-Frisinger-LE-156-95-2804H-1,

RBN Energy: Kinder Morgan's short- and long-term prospects, part 2.

Over the last decade and a half, oil and gas companies have taken investors on a wild roller coaster ride as their ambitious growth strategies and stock prices have been boosted, then badly battered, by volatile demand and commodity prices. With sentiment toward the old-school energy industry turning negative, producers and midstreamers shifted course to emphasize value over volume, prioritizing solid cash flow generation and substantial shareholder returns. Midstream giant Kinder Morgan has found it especially difficult to win back investor confidence despite its largely successful efforts to stabilize its balance sheet, internally fund growth, and gradually restore its dividend. But will that be enough to improve the company’s prospects? In today’s RBN blog, we draw on more highlights from our recent Spotlight report on KMI’s portfolio, performance, and near-term growth potential, with an emphasis on the opportunities ahead.

Earlier we reviewed the company’s history and outlined its new strategic initiatives. Since its founding in 1997, Kinder Morgan has employed a variety of industry-leading structures and strategies, including a master limited partnership (MLP), a leveraged buyout, an initial public offering, and a consolidation of its holdings into a C-Corp, to grow into a midstream colossus with a market cap that neared $100 billion in early 2015. However, in 2014-15, investors concerned about plunging oil prices began abandoning the sector. KMI’s stock price was hit particularly hard, plummeting 66% between the fall of 2014 and the fall of 2015 on concerns about its elevated debt load. Unable to fund future expansion as its stock price cratered and debt soared, the company slashed its dividend by 75% in late 2015 in order to preserve cash to fund its sizable project backlog, which triggered an ice-cold response from shareholders.