Diversified Energy’s Secret Sauce
Looking to offload those lower-producing conventional gas wells? Say you’ve gotta whole gob of ‘em ready to put out to pasture? Diversified Energy Company has an app for that. Not of the software kind but the business model kind which, (forgive the shameless Beatles reference) takes a sad song and makes it better by acquiring and resuscitating mature wells that still hold another 40-50 years of life. That model—no drilling, no fracking—has led to DEC owning the nation’s largest number of gas wells. More than 70,000. More than ExxonMobil and Chevron.
Reese Energy Consulting today is following the latest from Ala.-based Diversified, the largest conventional gas producer across Appalachia, which two years ago this month took its playbook into the Haynesville, Cotton Valley, Barnett, Anadarko, and Eagle Ford. Fertile terrain, where producers are also more fixed on their fracked wells. The shale revolution has given rise to all this lost love, of course. In fact, jumpstarted DEC back in 2001 as more E&Ps began to turn their nose up at traditional oil and gas wells to produce higher volumes.
Helmed by founder and CEO Rusty Hutson, Diversified requires acquisitions to replenish inventory. It’s the essential ingredient of the company’s secret sauce to invest in low-risk, low-cost, long-life assets and squeeze every hydrocarbon molecule out of them. After conquering Appalachia and moving south, DEC has now found its latest prize again in East Texas, where it has executed a conditional purchase and sales agreement with Crescent Pass Energy for $106 million. The deal includes 170,000 acres, 827 wells, and 38 MMCFD with annual declines of 9%. Rock on, Rusty. What do you think? Learn more about REC and our natural gas marketing and midstream consulting services at https://lnkd.in/ewhkGFa. For more information about out online natural gas training courses, visit us at https://lnkd.in/ggd3UkJM.
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