Diversified Energy

Diversified Energy (formerly Diversified Gas & Oil) is a company that continues to fascinate us. Diversified’s CEO, Rusty Hutson, Jr., started the company in 2001 with just 35 old conventional wells in West Virginia. Today the company owns over 69,000 gas and oil wells! Most of them are conventional and located in the Appalachian region, although the company now owns over 400 shale wells too. The company’s strategy is to let others locate and drill new wells, and obtain the initial rush of production. But as those wells age and produce a small trickle of what they initially produced, most companies look to sell them. That’s where Diversified comes in, buying up those older, lower-producing wells. Even though the production is low, those old wells are like annuities that just keep steadily producing–for years. In fact, Hutson said in a recent interview that the majority of the 69,000+ wells Diversified owns will produce for “50, 60 years or more.”
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Yesterday Diversified Energy announced it is expanding methane emissions detection at the company’s operations in the Appalachian Basin by deploying an extra 500 handheld detection devices (in addition to 100 already in use) at its well sites (see Diversified Uses Handheld Devices to Detect, Eliminate Methane Leaks). With some 67,000 mostly conventional (older) wells, how big of a problem is methane leakage? According to CEO Rusty Hutson, methane leaks from Diverisifed wells is “a very small, minute, amount.”
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This morning Diversified Energy announced it is expanding methane emissions detection at the company’s operations in the Appalachian Basin by deploying an extra 500 handheld detection devices (in addition to 100 already in use) at its work sites. Diversified owns close to 8 million acres of leases with some 67,000 (mostly) conventional oil and gas wells (with over 400 Marcellus/Utica shale wells). Diversified’s strategy is to seek wells in “the long tail.” That is, wells already drilled with production far along the decline curve. Most of the wells in their inventory are older conventional wells. However, as shale wells begin to age and produce less, Diversified is also buying into the shale market.
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Diversified Energy (née Diversified Gas & Oil) continues to expand *outside* of the Marcellus/Utica region. In April the company announced it had purchased ~780 net operated wells and leases in the Cotton Valley/Haynesville region of Lousiana for $135 million (see Diversified Expands Beyond Appalachia First Time, Buys La. Assets). Barely a month later and they bought assets in the Barnett Shale for $180 million (see Diversified Expands Outside M-U Again, Buys Blackbeard in Barnett). A little over a month after that, they did it again, with another purchase in the Haynesville play for $308 million (see Diversified Expands in Haynesville, Buys Tanos Assets for $308M). Diversified’s fourth expansion, for $419 million, is located in the Mid-Continent.
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Diversified Energy (née Diversified Gas & Oil) continues to expand *outside* of the Marcellus/Utica region. In April the company announced it had purchased ~780 net operated wells and leases in the Cotton Valley/Haynesville region of Lousiana for $135 million (see Diversified Expands Beyond Appalachia First Time, Buys La. Assets). Barely a month later and they bought assets in the Barnett Shale for $180 million (see Diversified Expands Outside M-U Again, Buys Blackbeard in Barnett). And now, a little over a month after that, they’ve done it again, with another purchase in the Haynesville play, this time for $308 million.
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Diversified Gas & Oil Company, which owns close to 8 million acres of leases with some 60,000 (mostly) conventional oil and gas wells (with over 400 Marcellus/Utica shale wells) in the Appalachian Basin, is no longer calling itself Diversified Gas & Oil Company. Instead, the company has changed its name to Diversified Energy Company. The company also changed its website URL from the old dgoc.com to div.energy. However, the mission remains the same: grow by buying older/existing gas and oil wells.
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Diversified Gas & Oil (DGO) owns close to 8 million acres of leases with some 60,000 (mostly) conventional oil and gas wells (with over 400 Marcellus/Utica shale wells)–all of it in the Appalachian Basin. DGO is expanding. Earlier today the company announced it has cut a deal to buy ~780 net operated wells and leases in the Cotton Valley/Haynesville region of Lousiana for $135 million.
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Diversified Gas & Oil (DGO) owns close to 8 million acres of leases with some 60,000 (mostly) conventional oil and gas wells. Their focus has been to acquire quality production and cash flow–regardless of the well or commodity type (gas or oil)–in the Appalachian Basin. DGO currently owns over 400 Marcellus/Utica shale wells in their portfolio too. Earlier this week the company issued its fourth-quarter and full-year 2020 update. Although the company reported a $23 million loss for 2020 (versus making $99 million in 2019), CEO Rusty Hutson says he is “exceptionally pleased with our results in 2020” and the way the company navigated a turbulent 2020.
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