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Third Party Certification of Natural Gas in North America

Article Energy Transition, Featured, North America, Northam Energy Capital Assembly

If a gas producer adheres to emissions reductions and ESG regulations, they can obtain a Responsibly Sourced Gas (RGS) certificate. This means a company has produced a premium product, one that is actively seeking to reduce GHG emissions through integrating more efficient processes, reducing or stopping gas flaring and powering production with renewables – with the intention to reach net-zero emissions.

Analysis on M&A so far in 2021 and what to expect now

Article Exploration & Production, Featured, Investment & Finance

The global oil and gas markets have been awash with deals as oil and gas players alike scramble to rebalance their portfolios in light of supranational climate goals. While the market has not been as active in the second half of 2021, as commodity prices began to stabilise toward pre-Covid levels, there were still a number of significant mergers and acquisitions that will add much needed liquidity to the markets.

Deep Dive Into The US M&A Market

Article Featured, Investment & Finance, North America

The North American oil and gas market maintained their position as ‘most active region’, in terms of both the quantity of deals and the total transaction values – leading to a total of 21 deals to the value of $12.72bn being confirmed in Q1/2021.
Since the close of Q1, a further 21 deals to the value of $21.1bn have been processed in the North American market, indicating that the shale patch is beginning to undergo another round of consolidation. The Energy Council has taken a look at some highlights of US M&A activity so far this year…

6 Months On – How Has Biden’s Presidency Impacted The South American Oil & Gas Industry

Article Energy & Renewables, Energy Transition, Featured, North America, South America

Latin America has historically been the recipient of vast attention by successive US administrations, seeing the South American nations as proxies to fight international disagreements. Yet in recent years, their regional neighbours have fallen down the pecking order of foreign policy concerns, even more so under former President Trump’s isolationist ‘America First’ policies. In lieu of direct US-influence, corporate actors have been lobbying South American governments to expand and liberalise their energy sectors with the intention of developing competitive markets in the natural gas and renewable energy generation sectors.

Exploration updates across the region, what’s new in Suriname and Guyana?

Article Exploration & Production, Featured, South America

On the northern edge of South America, nestled between South America’s oil and gas giants are the nations of Suriname and Guyana. Their resources have historically been somewhat limited and their GDPs’ commiserate with limited economic activity, however the recent oil and gas discoveries offshore their waters has injected hope into these neighbouring economies.

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Podcast – Charlie Matter, CEO, CASE Energy Partners

Podcast Minerals & Royalties Podcasts, North America

Charlie Matter, CEO, CASE Energy Partners shares his insights in this podcast. Charlie discusses the impact that COVID-19 and the Oil Price War are having on A&D activity and how larger buyers will need to get creative in order to continue deploying capital at scale..

Podcast – Will Cullen, Vice President, LongPoint Minerals

Podcast Minerals & Royalties Podcasts, North America

Will Cullen, Vice President, LongPoint Minerals shares his insights in this podcast. Will gives some insight on why many LPs still struggle to make direct investments, the value creation that comes from active portfolio management, and why development timing is such a critical factor..

Podcast – Marc Zimmermann, President & COO, Royalty Clearinghouse

Podcast Minerals & Royalties Podcasts, North America

Marc Zimmermann, President & COO, Royalty Clearinghouse shares his insights in this podcast. Over a 20 year history they have completed 6,000+ transactions with an emphasis of long-term relationship building. Marc is well placed to discuss the current state of play in the space.

Podcast – Darin Zanovich, President, Mesa Minerals Partners

Podcast Featured Podcast, Minerals & Royalties Podcasts, North America

Darin Zanovich of Mesa Minerals Partners shares his insights in this podcast. Darin talks about why this is an opportune time for long term investors that are yield driven to enter the space and capture an arbitrage before the public markets mature and the opportunity gap closes.

Podcast – Ran Oliver, CEO, Viking Minerals

Podcast Featured Podcast, Minerals & Royalties Podcasts, North America

In the first of our Mineral and Royalties series Viking Minerals, Ran Oliver describes the parallels between real estate and oil and gas minerals and royalties investing.

Hot Points: Ran Oliver, CEO, Viking Minerals

Expert Insight Featured

We started Viking in May of 2012 so it’s been nearly 8 years. Prior to that, I worked at a family office doing real estate for about 9 years, which has some interesting parallels to minerals and is one of the things that got me interested in the space in the first place.

Investment in the Energy Transition

Expert Insight Europe, Investment & Finance, Meet the Speaker

Energy transition will be at a crossroads when the world gets out of the current health crisis: will we base the recovery on a sustainable model or will we, once again, justify unsustainable policies and practices with the need to “get growth back on track”?

Hot Points: Interview with Darin Zanovich, CEO, Mesa

Expert Insight Featured

Our competitive advantage is to focus in an area that isn’t the Permian. We like the gas focus in an area where we see it as feedstock for the Gulf Coast LNG projects coming online. We like focusing with an operator that has a good balance sheet and pad drilling..

WECA Advisory Board Takeaways – Part 2

Expert Insight Article, Europe, World Energy Capital Assembly 2020

Part 2 of our takeaways picks up the conversation where we left off as our advisors’ peer into the rabbit hole of climate change and energy transition, and the future role of gas.

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