Late yesterday evening, Tallgrass Energy announced that Blackstone has offered to acquire all outstanding publicly-available Class A shares of the midstream company in a deal that would take Tallgrass private at a 36% premium to yesterday’s stock price. Blackstone currently …

Thoughtful, firsthand reporting is getting harder to come by these days. In an era of declining print advertising revenue, publishers routinely flood the web with low-calorie click bait (because it creates ad inventory) instead of publishing deeply reported, “old school” …

A couple of weeks ago, our friends at Infill Thinking, an oilfield market research firm, conducted a membership outlook survey. 80 business leaders weighed in, with participants hailing from fairly diverse upstream backgrounds. The whole 20-question survey yielded interesting results, …

Just hours after last week’s big Solaris Water Midstream deal splashed across the newswires, we were honored to officially announce the company’s CEO as our next Keynote Speaker. Solaris CEO Bill Zartler’s remarks will open the “Oilfield Water Industry Update …

Even those who don’t work directly in oilfield water are paying attention to our sector this week, thanks first to a thought piece Raymond James sent to their clients on Monday and second to an E&P’s big water divestiture this …