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  1. #151

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    M&A is going to be bananas in the O&G over the next 24 months.

    Locally,

    Chk has too much debt they’ll just continue to operate.
    CLR will either buy someone or hold serve. Hamm owns too many shares for Wall Street or PE to have an effect.

    DVN is likely going to get bought or merge. (Marathon/EOG, they have highly similar assets. Scale would help.) That’s an 80% chance. 20% chance they buy someone.

    Chaparral, Roan, SD will all get bought up. Roan is actively being marketed.

    Gulfport will keep just chugging along.

    The smaller PE backed guys like Echo, ascent, revolution will likely stay private. They might jump up and take out a SD as a reverse merger, helps avoid an ipo and all the fees associated with that. Plus Wall Street hates hates hates O&G right now.

  2. #152

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    Quote Originally Posted by gopokes88 View Post
    M&A is going to be bananas in the O&G over the next 24 months.

    Locally,

    Chk has too much debt they’ll just continue to operate.
    CLR will either buy someone or hold serve. Hamm owns too many shares for Wall Street or PE to have an effect.

    DVN is likely going to get bought or merge. (Marathon/EOG, they have highly similar assets. Scale would help.) That’s an 80% chance. 20% chance they buy someone.

    Chaparral, Roan, SD will all get bought up. Roan is actively being marketed.

    Gulfport will keep just chugging along.

    The smaller PE backed guys like Echo, ascent, revolution will likely stay private. They might jump up and take out a SD as a reverse merger, helps avoid an ipo and all the fees associated with that. Plus Wall Street hates hates hates O&G right now.
    Yes, definitely have been hearing rumblings about DVN. Nothing concrete but it is concerning. Selling Canada for nearly $4 Billion made them a really attractive takeover target but also gave them the cash to make an acquisition. Hopefully for OKC the latter happens.

  3. #153

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    Devon isn't nearly as big as it once was.

    They are turning into Chesapeake and SandRidge: slowly and methodically shrinking.

  4. #154

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pete View Post
    Devon isn't nearly as big as it once was.

    They are turning into Chesapeake and SandRidge: slowly and methodically shrinking.
    Yes they have shrunk a lot but the assets they still own in the Permian, Eagleford, Powder River Basin, and to a lesser extent the STACK, are high tier acreage in those plays. Unlike CHK and SD, they have strong, oil rich assets and have been able to eliminate a lot of their debt which makes them a really attractive acquisition target.

    CHK has shrunk quite a bit, but the Wild Horse acquisition grew them slightly.

  5. #155

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    ^

    Just meant that if something happened to Devon, it wouldn't necessarily be an economy-crushing event.

    Chesapeake has slowly dwindled from about 5,000 employees at its peak in 2012, and now has only about 1,500 on their payroll. That's a loss of a whopping 3,500 highly-paid jobs in 7 years.

    And a lot bigger number than currently working for Devon.

  6. #156

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    Almost seems like people are hoping Devon or Chesapeake go under, with how doom and gloom this board makes it seem.

  7. #157

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pete View Post
    ^

    Just meant that if something happened to Devon, it wouldn't necessarily be an economy-crushing event.

    Chesapeake has slowly dwindled from about 5,000 employees at its peak in 2012, and now has only about 1,500 on their payroll. That's a loss of a whopping 3,500 jobs in 7 years.

    And it's a lot more jobs than currently working for Devon.
    Certainly wouldn’t be a good thing but you’re right, it wouldn’t have the impact that it would’ve a few years ago.

  8. #158

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    Quote Originally Posted by jonny d View Post
    Almost seems like people are hoping Devon or Chesapeake go under, with how doom and gloom this board makes it seem.
    No one is hoping for it. Just stating likely scenarios.

  9. #159

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pete View Post
    ^

    Just meant that if something happened to Devon, it wouldn't necessarily be an economy-crushing event.

    Chesapeake has slowly dwindled from about 5,000 employees at its peak in 2012, and now has only about 1,500 on their payroll. That's a loss of a whopping 3,500 highly-paid jobs in 7 years.

    And a lot bigger number than currently working for Devon.
    I think the big loss would be the high level management positions. The total number of jobs can be absorbed, but those $200,000+ per year jobs are going to be hard to recoup. I'm guessing there are no less than 50 positions in OKC that are at that salary level.

    Obviously that won't be a full loss as those people have the (access to) capital to start new ventures and many won't phone it in. But some may, and some may leave, and it wouldn't be an inconsequential amount of loss.

  10. #160

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    There were tons of people at CHK making over $200K a year that have been laid off.

    Our economy is a lot bigger and more diverse than ever, and the fact we've absorbed the loss of 3,500 very high-paying jobs from Chesapeake without anyone really noticing is the best example.

    It also goes to show that these big oil companies are not nearly as important to our local economy as people think. Even in the O&G industry, there has been a big shift towards small- and medium-sized operators.

  11. #161

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    Quote Originally Posted by jonny d View Post
    Almost seems like people are hoping Devon or Chesapeake go under, with how doom and gloom this board makes it seem.
    Oh no it’d be awful for a multitude of reasons. Losing a Fortune 500 company is never good.

    But if Devon can’t start generating good FCF in the next 4-6 quarters, the investors will push for a sale.

    The asset sales were a move to position to do that. They have very very low debt now and are in 3/4 best shale assets.

  12. #162

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pete View Post
    There were tons of people at CHK making over $200K a year that have been laid off.

    Our economy is a lot bigger and more diverse than ever, and the fact we've absorbed the loss of 3,500 very high-paying jobs from Chesapeake without anyone really noticing is the best example.

    It also goes to show that these big oil companies are not nearly as important to our local economy as people think. Even in the O&G industry, there has been a big shift towards small- and medium-sized operators.
    The winds are shifting a little bit, size is what’s going to matter.

    Big O&G used to come in a take out a smaller PE backed company for the acreage in the field. PE would back these small companies hoping for a huge windfall. That’s not really happening anymore. We’re out of the exploration part of the cycle, and in the development part of the cycle. So the PE money has stopped flowing, growth isn’t the focus, FCF is.

  13. #163

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    If Devon gets sold or merged that doesn’t necessarily spell doom and gloom for their operations here. That tower is a tremendous facility, few oil companies have HQ’ers that match it.

  14. #164

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    Slowed to a crawl in terms of job growth. DFW just got Charles Schwab/TD Ameritrade to move their HQ there. Meanwhile, our state government is pathetically complacent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jonny d View Post
    Slowed to a crawl in terms of job growth. DFW just got Charles Schwab/TD Ameritrade to move their HQ there. Meanwhile, our state government is pathetically complacent.
    This was going to happen and was between Denver or DFW where they already had a large presence. Schwab desperately wanted away from CA taxes since they just lost all brokerage commission revenue.

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    didn't OKC have a bid on Schwab a few years ago but they decided against given the city's stance on LGBT+ rights at the time? Of course, the city has grown up since then and is very inclusive and accepting now but if true just goes to show how OKC often shoots itself in the foot to the benefit once again of big brother to the south.
    Oklahoma City, the RENAISSANCE CITY!

  17. #167

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    Quote Originally Posted by HOT ROD View Post
    didn't OKC have a bid on Schwab a few years ago but they decided against given the city's stance on LGBT+ rights at the time? Of course, the city has grown up since then and is very inclusive and accepting now but if true just goes to show how OKC often shoots itself in the foot to the benefit once again of big brother to the south.
    I didn't realize that DFW was more LGBTQ friendly. Just figured that, by extrapolation, they had more LGBTQ population, not really more friendly laws and policies.

  18. #168

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    Quote Originally Posted by HOT ROD View Post
    didn't OKC have a bid on Schwab a few years ago but they decided against given the city's stance on LGBT+ rights at the time? Of course, the city has grown up since then and is very inclusive and accepting now but if true just goes to show how OKC often shoots itself in the foot to the benefit once again of big brother to the south.
    Like 20 years ago? Cite your source. Execs don’t make decisions based on a very specific social issue. They make decisions on talent available, airport, schools, livability

  19. #169

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    Bigotry has costs state like North Carolina and Georgia certain economic impacts that weren’t good although it’s not like they care. They were already doing good and will continue to. Oklahoma should tread carefully.

  20. #170

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    Quote Originally Posted by jonny d View Post
    I didn't realize that DFW was more LGBTQ friendly. Just figured that, by extrapolation, they had more LGBTQ population, not really more friendly laws and policies.
    These days I'd say it's a wash in terms of actual cultural acceptance of the LGBTQ community, at least if you are talking about central OKC vs central Dallas, but DFW has a much larger scene, more LGBT resources, and a real gayborhood. Texas seems to have stepped up the far-right religious politics in the last year or so. Oklahoma used to be worse in that regard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gopokes88 View Post
    Like 20 years ago? Cite your source. Execs don’t make decisions based on a very specific social issue. They make decisions on talent available, airport, schools, livability
    Maybe for a phone call center or something. They only recently built one in DFW - much to spite Fidelity who has a huge campus very close to the new Schwab facility. Fidelity built a call center near the Schwab campus in Denver and took a bunch of Schwab employees. Schwab, like hundreds of other California companies, is simply looking to cut taxes and other costs.

  22. #172

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    I doubt call center jobs are desirable. IF you don't have to call to India or some other foreign country, they are at least good to have in that regard.

  23. #173

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    Quote Originally Posted by Plutonic Panda View Post
    Bigotry has costs state like North Carolina and Georgia certain economic impacts that weren’t good although it’s not like they care. They were already doing good and will continue to. Oklahoma should tread carefully.
    It cost NC the nba all star game for all of one year.
    All the filmmakers got made at Georgia, threatened to leave, then continued to do business. So not really.

  24. #174

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    Quote Originally Posted by gopokes88 View Post
    It cost NC the nba all star game for all of one year.
    All the filmmakers got made at Georgia, threatened to leave, then continued to do business. So not really.
    I think it’s hard to really account for impacts in those states as they already have good things going for them.

    My point was Oklahoma having policies like that probably would have a big impact on the stage. We don’t have the economy that NC or GA does so the state should be careful and smart about attracting forward and progressive thinking companies.

  25. #175

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    Texas isn’t exactly a bastion of progressive values and they’re doing just fine stealing a multitude of California companies.

    It boils down to 50 things. Not 1.

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