Oil/Gas Exploration Merger Transactions

Shelf Drilling (North Sea) is a shallow water offshore drilling contractor. The company's fit-for-purpose strategy and fleet of modern high-specification harsh environment jack-up rigs enable it to offer a broad range of services in the shallow water drilling markets. Shelf Drilling (North Sea) is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Shelf Drilling
Company
Oil/Gas Exploration
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
www.shelfdrilling.com
Advisors: Conyers Dill & Pearman , Thommessen , SpareBank 1 Markets

A-Plus is a premiere plug and abandonment service provider across the San Juan, Denver-Julesburg, and Permian Basins. Known for its professional, safe, and cost-effective services, A-Plus offers comprehensive equipment packages for efficient and economical well plugging. A-Plus was founded in 1992 and is based in Farmington, New Mexico.

JMR Services
Company
Oil/Gas Exploration
Midland, Texas
www.jmrservices.com
Advisor: French Benton

Endeavor is an oil/gas exploration and production company. The company holds ~470,000 net acres across multiple basins, inclusive of 344,000 net acres in the core 6 Midland basin counties. Endeavor Energy Resources was formed in 1979 and is based in Midland, Texas.

Diamondback Energy
Company
Oil/Gas Exploration
Midland, Texas
www.diamondbackenergy.com
Advisors: Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz , Citi , Jefferies

Southwestern Energy is a national energy company. Southwestern Energy primarily engages in natural gas and crude oil exploration, development and production. Southwestern Energy was founded in 1929 and is based in Spring, Texas.

Chesapeake Energy
Company
Oil/Gas Exploration
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
www.chk.com
Advisors: Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz , Latham & Watkins , J.P. Morgan Securities , Evercore Group , Morgan Stanley

Fury Resources is a privately held exploration and production company focused on value creation through the acquisition and exploitation of assets in the Permian Basin. Fury Resources is based in Houston, Texas.

Battalion Oil
Company
Oil/Gas Exploration
Houston, Texas
www.halconresources.com
Advisors: Mayer Brown , Houlihan Lokey

Pioneer Natural Resources is a large independent exploration and production company with a large position in the Permian Basin. Pioneer Natural Resources Company was formed through the 1997 merger of NGP Portfolio Company, MESA Inc., and Parker & Parsley Petroleum Company. Pioneer Natural Resources was founded in 1997 and is based in Irving, Texas.

ExxonMobil
Company
Oil/Gas Exploration
Spring, Texas
corporate.exxonmobil.com
Advisors: Davis Polk & Wardwell , Citi , Centerview Partners

Endegs is an expert for the mobile and safe degassing of tanks, containers, tank cars, pipelines, ships and suction trucks in Europe. We offer technologically unique solutions for the time⁃ and cost⁃efficient incineration of gases, gas mixtures and vapours of explosion groups IIA, IIB and IIC, with a combustion efficiency of almost 100 percent. Endegs was founded in 2007 and based in Pforring, Germany.

ETS Group
Company
Environmental
Amelinghausen, Germany

NexTier Oilfield Solutions is a provider of integrated completions focused on US land. The company delivers safe, efficient and innovative services that enable customers to win by accelerating production while generating leading returns. Its principal service offerings include horizontal and vertical fracturing, wireline perforation and logging, and engineered solutions. NexTier Oilfield Solutions was founded in 1973 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Patterson-UTI
Company
Oil/Gas Exploration
Houston, Texas
www.patenergy.com
Advisors: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher , Goldman Sachs

TransGlobe Energy is an international exploration and production company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with oil interests in the Arab Republic of Egypt ("Egypt") and the Republic of Yemen ("Yemen"). TransGlobe Energy was founded in 1968 and is based in Calgary, Alberta.

VAALCO Energy
Company
Oil/Gas Exploration
Houston, Texas
www.vaalco.com
Advisors: Mayer Brown , Osler , Stifel

Whiting Petroleum is an independent exploration and production company with an oil-focused asset base. Whiting Petroleum was founded in 1980 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Chord Energy
Company
Oil/Gas Exploration
Houston, Texas
www.chordenergy.com
Advisors: Vinson & Elkins , TPH & Co. , RBC Capital Markets

READ has been supporting oil and gas operators for almost 30 years. Around the globe, READ delivers quality production logging, well integrity and reservoir evaluation solutions. Whatever the conveyance – wireline, slickline or coiled tubing – its technologies and systems are compatible, in memory and real-time. READ was founded in 1990 and is based in Aberdeen, United Kingdom.

HydraWell
Company
Machinery
Tananger, Norway
www.hydrawell.no

Norvestor Equity
Investor
Private Equity Firm
Oslo, Norway
www.norvestor.com

Rattler Midstream was formed to own, operate, develop and acquire midstream and energy-related infrastructure assets. Rattler Midstream was founded in 2021 and is based in Midland, Texas.

Diamondback Energy
Company
Oil/Gas Exploration
Midland, Texas
www.diamondbackenergy.com
Advisors: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld , J.P. Morgan Securities

Prime Rock Resources is an oil and gas producing company targeting the acquisition and development of positions in the Delaware Basin. Prime Rock Resources is based in Midland, Texas.

Wayfinder Resources
Company
Oil/Gas Exploration
Houston, Texas
www.wayfinderresources.com

Lime Rock Partners
Investor
Private Equity Firm
Westport, Connecticut
www.lrpartners.com

Altus Midstream is a pure-play, Permian-to-Gulf Coast midstream C-corporation. Altus Midstream is based in Houston, Texas.

Kinetik
Company
Energy Services and Equipment
Houston, Texas
www.kinetik.com

ATX Energy Partners is an exploration and production company focused on the acquisition and development of acreage positions in unconventional domestic oil and liquids resource plays. ATX Energy Partners was founded in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Vitol Holding B.V.
Company
Energy Services and Equipment
Rotterdam, Netherlands
www.vitol.com

Warburg Pincus
Investor
Private Equity Firm
New York, New York
www.warburgpincus.com

Yorktown Partners
Investor
Private Equity Firm
New York, New York
www.yorktownenergy.com

Pine Brook Partners
Investor
Private Equity Firm
New York, New York
www.pinebrookpartners.com

Oil Search is an oil and gas exploration and development company. Oil Search is involved in a range of exploration and appraisal activities in PNG, primarily aimed at aggregating additional gas reserves, to underpin a potential expansion of the PNG LNG Project as well as further LNG development in PNG. Oil Search was founded in 1929 and is based in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

Santos
Company
Oil/Gas Exploration
Adelaide, Australia
www.santos.com.au