Year-end 2023 is quickly approaching so that means it’s time to take a look back at the year. Here are the top ten posts for the year measured by readership. Click on any of the post titles to revisit the post.

Thank you to our readers for your constant support! It’s our honor to cover the oil & gas industry for you. We are taking the next two weeks off from the blog to celebrate the holidays but we’ll be back next year!

1. Exxon’s Acquisition of Denbury: A Tale of Two Businesses, and Neither One Is Worth $4.9 Billion
2. Inside the Board Rooms of a $5.4 Billion Oil and Gas Merger
3. Eagle Ford M&A: Transaction Activity Picks Over the Past 4 Quarters
4. M&A in the Permian: Acquisition Growth Flat Ahead of Expected Surge
5. Appalachian Gas Valuations: A Beautiful Future Emerges From An Ugly Past
6. Understanding Oilfield Services Companies & How to Value Them
7. Earnings Stability and Geopolitical Volatility: Two Foes Are Battling Once More
8. Is TXO’s Strategy Paying Off? The TXO Energy Partners IPO
9. IRS Valuation Guidance | Mines, Oil and Gas Wells, & Other Natural Deposits
10. NAPE 2023: Europe’s Post-Russian Energy Strategy & A 2023 Merger Outlook

In addition to the the blog posts above, we also publish the Mineral Aggregator Valuation Multiples Study each quarter. Here are the four issues released in 2023.

• Q4 | Market Data as of November 17, 2023
• Q3 | Market Data as of August 21, 2023
• Q2 | Market Data as of June 19, 2023
• Q1 | Market Data as of March 3, 2023

Finally, we published the 2023 Energy Purchase Price Allocation Study on the blog this year. This study researches and observes publicly available purchase price allocation data for four sub-sectors of the energy industry:

• Exploration & Production
• Oilfield Services
• Midstream
• Downstream

Look for the 2024 study in late summer/early fall 2024.

Again, thank you to our readers. Happy Holidays!