GeoSouthern Energy

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GeoSouthern Energy Corporation
Type Privately held company
Industry Petroleum industry
Founded1981;42 years ago (1981)
Founder George Bishop
Headquarters The Woodlands, Texas
Key people
George Bishop (CEO)
Products Petroleum
Natural gas
Owner George Bishop

GeoSouthern Energy Corporation is a petroleum and natural gas exploration and production company headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas.

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History

In 1981, the company was founded by Chairman George Bishop. [1] [2]

Margaret "Meg" Molleston, joined the company in 2006 and leads the management of GeoSouthern's assets.

In February 2014, the company sold 82,000 acres in the Eagle Ford shale area of Texas to Devon Energy for $6 billion in cash. [3] [2] The assets were owned in a joint venture with a fund of The Blackstone Group. [4]

In August 2015, in partnership with GSO Capital Partners, the company acquired it's GEP Haynesville assets in the Haynesville Shale, including 300 wells across 112,000 acres, from Encana for $850 million. [5]

In November 2021, the company sold in it's Haynesville Shale GEP Haynesville asset, then producing 700 MMcf/d, to Southwestern for $1.85 billion. [6]

GEP Haynesville II

In 2020, Chesapeake Energy Corporation filed for bankruptcy, and as part of its restructuring plan, it decided to sell some of its assets to pay off its debts. One of the assets that Chesapeake sold was it's South Mansfield Haynesville shale acreage, comprising 50,000 net mineral acres, which it sold to Williams Companies, Inc in December 2020. [7]

In August 2021, Williams announced an upstream JV with GeoSouthern (GEP Haynesville II) to develop the South Mansfield asset in order to enhance their strategy of connecting the best supplies of affordable, reliable and clean natural gas with growing customer demand. [8]

In May 2023, Alan Armstrong of Williams stated "During the last downturn, particularly in 2020, where we had customers that owed us for expansions and we brought in new operators to develop those...in the Haynesville, GeoSouthern (GEP Haynesville II) has been the operator there and they have done a fantastic job of growing the volumes in the Haynesville for us." [9]

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References

  1. "George Bishop". Forbes .
  2. 1 2 Helman, Christopher (November 20, 2013). "A New Billionaire Emerges From Devon Energy's $6 Billion Deal For GeoSouthern". Forbes .
  3. "Devon Energy Completes Acquisition of Eagle Ford Assets from GeoSouthern Energy" (Press release). Business Wire. February 28, 2014.
  4. "GeoSouthern & Blackstone to Sell Their Eagle Ford Shale Partnership to Devon Energy" (Press release). The Blackstone Group. November 20, 2013.
  5. "GeoSouthern Haynesville, LP and GSO Capital Partners LP Announce Acquisition of Haynesville Shale Assets from Encana Corporation" (Press release). PRNewswire. August 25, 2015.
  6. "Southwestern Energy Announces Agreement to Acquire GEP Haynesville" (Press release). Businesswire. November 4, 2021.
  7. "Bankruptcy court approves Williams-Chesapeake midstream contract resolution" (Press release). S&P. December 17, 2020.
  8. "Williams Reports Higher Results Across Key Metrics in Second Quarter" (Press release). Businesswire. August 2, 2021.
  9. "Lower natural gas prices are driving high demand, says Williams CEO Alan Armstrong" (Press release). CNBC. May 4, 2023.