Diversified Grows via Culling, Harvesting Mature Gas Wells

Every major public "upstream" (exploration and production) company invests in finding and developing reserves — except one, which happens to be the largest owner of wells in the country. Diversified Energy (formerly Diversified Gas & Oil), with major assets in the Marcellus/Utica region (also assets in other regions, too), owns approximately 8 million acres of leases with 67,000 (mostly) conventional oil and gas wells. The company’s business model is to buy lower-producing wells on the cheap and find ways to make them more productive. The company doesn't do any of its own drilling from scratch. It buys wells drilled long ago (or, in some cases, still under development).

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