Cube Development vs. Full Stacked Development: What’s the Difference?

Cube Development vs. Full Stacked Development: What’s the Difference?

Full stacked development describes the vertical inventory, while Cube development describes how that inventory is executed at the section level ...
Heavy Oil 2026: Top Operators, Rigs, and Drilling Momentum

Heavy Oil 2026: Top Operators, Rigs, and Drilling Momentum

Western Canada’s heavy oil activity in 2026 is concentrated among a small group of operators executing disciplined, infrastructure-led drilling programs ...
Kinetik’s Sale Prospect - Western Midstream Partners, Testing Interest

Kinetik’s Sale Prospect – Western Midstream Partners, Testing Interest

Kinetik’s potential sale is being driven as much by asset quality as deal timing, with its Texas air permits revealing ...
Birchcliff’s Montney Strategy Is Showing Up in the Data

Birchcliff’s Montney Strategy Is Showing Up in the Data

Birchcliff’s 2025 Grande Prairie Montney drilling activity closely matches management’s message of disciplined, infrastructure-led development, with multi-well pads, concentrated rig ...
Whitecap’s Montney Strategy, Confirmed by the Drill Bit

Whitecap’s Montney Strategy, Confirmed by the Drill Bit

Whitecap positioned the Montney as a long-dated, infrastructure-led growth engine focused on returns, flexibility, and capital discipline rather than volume ...
Grande Prairie 2026: Disciplined Capital, Repeatable Execution

Grande Prairie 2026: Disciplined Capital, Repeatable Execution

Grande Prairie’s Montney in 2026 is defined by disciplined, infrastructure-led execution rather than aggressive growth, with capital concentrated in repeatable, ...
Crescent Energy Advances Mid-Life Optimization with UL Tilden 32 Gas Lift Pad in Ward County

Crescent Energy Advances Mid-Life Optimization with UL Tilden 32 Gas Lift Pad in Ward County

Crescent Energy Operating LLC has taken another step in optimizing its Permian Basin portfolio with the completion of a new ...
Inside FireBird Energy’s COYOTE UNIT: Pad-Based Spraberry Development in the Midland Basin

Inside FireBird Energy’s COYOTE UNIT: Pad-Based Spraberry Development in the Midland Basin

FireBird Energy II’s COYOTE UNIT project offers a clear look at how modern Permian operators execute disciplined, small-footprint development programs ...
ONEOK: The Permian Is Structurally Undersupplied on G&P — Glasscock County Shows Why

ONEOK: The Permian Is Structurally Undersupplied on G&P — Glasscock County Shows Why

ONEOK, Inc. sees the Permian Basin as structurally undersupplied on gathering and processing, a view reinforced by Glasscock County’s 169 ...
Inside Ovintiv’s HERBERT F101B: A Focused, Capital-Efficient Midland Basin Execution

Inside Ovintiv’s HERBERT F101B: A Focused, Capital-Efficient Midland Basin Execution

HERBERT F101B highlights how Ovintiv executes small, well-defined Midland Basin developments with tight drilling cadence, single-rig batch execution, and clean ...