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M&A market update: Q1 2018 – the Permian, again
Report summary
The North American market reasserted its dominance following two subdued quarters. The Permian saw the largest tight oil deal ever, while the Eagle Ford saw its largest deal since the downturn. But globally there was still a wide geographical spread of notable deals. Among them, Shell announced a series of divestments that edges the Major ever-closer to its US$30 billion disposal target. This Insight contains a snapshot of high level trends in the upstream M&A market, and a summary of major deal activity – both announced and rumoured – during February 2018. In this M&A monthly market update: a review of upstream M&A trends; a summary of the month’s biggest announced deals; commentary on the current Deal Pipeline (potential/rumoured deals)
Table of contents
- The quarter in brief
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Announced deals
- Trends
- Key themes
- Valuations
- Headline deals: announced
- North America
- Rest of the World
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Deal Pipeline: March 2018
- Headline additions
- Notable updates
- Appendix
Tables and charts
This report includes 12 images and tables including:
- Weighted average Implied Long-Term Oil Price vs. deal count vs. Brent oil price
- Count of deals in Pipeline by region/resource
- Value of deals in Pipeline by region/resource
- Monthly spread between Brent and the Implied Long-Term Oil Price vs. deal count vs. deal spend
- Quarterly deal count North America vs. RoW
- Quarterly deal spend* North America vs. RoW
- North America deal spend* by resource
- RoW deal spend* by asset location
- Quarterly deal count by region RoW
- Quarterly deal spend* by region RoW
- Implied Long-Term Oil Price (deal by deal) vs. Brent oil price
- Global M&A: Q1 2018
What's included
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