Bracing For Change: A Look Ahead To 2021
Path Forward: Borrowing Base Redeterminations In A Restructuring World
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 153-Doing Compliance in an Economic Downturn
As the two-year pandemic finally begins to fade into the background (at least for now), commercial real estate continues to adapt to market challenges, both old and new. Inflation is an old challenge that took quite an...more
Jobs Report Friday again! And this one should be a doozy, as we look for what a wave of recent strikes, increased competition for workers, and millions of workers reconsidering career paths will mean for the numbers...more
Find out why rising crude oil prices could pose a hyperinflationary threat to the U.S. economy....more
The Fifth Circuit has potentially opened the door for the misclassification of many common highly paid employees currently paid day-rate wages in the oil and gas industry. In Hewitt v. Helix Energy Solutions. Group., Inc.,...more
At the 2021 NAPE Summit, decision-makers, prospect generators, financiers, E&P operators, and service providers will finally return in person in Houston at the George R. Brown Center on August 18-20 (virtually from August...more
Es claro que existen aún oportunidades amplias para mejorar la requerida flexibilidad de los contratos de exploración y producción de hidrocarburos en Colombia. El plan y programa de inversión de la Agencia Nacional de...more
In 2020, like most other industries, the energy sector faced extreme challenges stemming from the pandemic. People were relying less on energy due to workforce and lifestyle changes. Last year also brought market dislocations...more
Looking ahead, here are a few themes I think will play a role in 2021, which are a continuation or evolution of where we’ve been in 2020....more
2020 was a tumultuous year for the oil and gas industry, but there’s still reason for optimism. Originally published in The Weekly E&P Update Newsletter, December 22, 2020. ...more
What will the oil and gas landscape look like in 2021? Managing Director Gary Pittman discusses bankruptcy and restructuring trends and what we can expect heading into the new year....more
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently issued an interim report by CFTC Staff on the April 2020 price collapse of the West Texas Intermediate light sweet crude oil futures contract (WTI Futures Contract)....more
As Murphy’s law states, “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong”. This age-old adage can be applied to what the U.S. oil and gas industry has experienced through most of 2020. The U.S. shale sector continues to reel...more
Due to the drop in demand for oil and gas attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic and the decline in oil prices, cash flow generation is crucial to energy companies. To enhance cash flow, energy companies should review their...more
Wall Street had another come-to-Jesus day over the troubling recent Covid trends, as surging cases throughout the U.S. and across Europe drove markets to their worst performance since June....more
As predicted in Holland & Knight's Energy and Natural Resources Blog post on March 16, 2020, "Midstream Providers Can Prepare for the Next Wave of Restructurings," the dual impact of a COVID-19 demand slump and market pricing...more
How will oil and gas companies adapt to tightening bank loan requirements amid commodity price uncertainty and an ongoing pandemic going forward? Opportune Managing Director David Morris explains on the latest episode of...more
While the airline industry has benefited from a special federal stimulus loan package tied to the impact of COVID-19, the energy industry has not been as fortunate to date. Many energy companies were distressed before the...more
In a House Select Subcommittee meeting on Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called for more Congressional action to provide coronavirus relief and promised a White House initiative to protect renters from eviction....more
More on TikTok’s plans to sue the U.S. over the White House’s recent executive orders seeking to block the app on American soil and force its owner, ByteDance, to sell its American assets. The company intends to argue that...more
Exxon Mobil: Doubling Down While Facing Peak Oil Demand - "With most competitors pivoting away from upstream growth, Exxon continues to press ahead with investments despite very challenging current price environment for...more
Is A&D activity picking up in the upstream oil and gas sector and, if so, is now the right time to find attractive deals? ...more
Big Oil repeatedly remanded to state courts - will SCOTUS come to the rescue? "Oil companies facing suits by state and local governments that want them to bear a share of the cost of responding to the consequences of...more
The first half of 2020 has presented governments, business and individuals with an unprecedented set of circumstances to grapple with. As thoughts start to turn towards emerging from the crisis, people around the world have...more
The recent dramatic decline in oil prices was precipitated by an unprecedented drop in demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic played out against a backdrop of an already slightly oversupplied oil market. Oil prices have...more
Opportune Managing Partner David Baggett shares his thoughts on how oil and gas restructurings may signal a paradigm shift in the industry. ...more