Year-end 2025 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. Shining Some Light on Four Overshadowed Oil and Gas Plays: Uinta Basin, Bakken Shale, DJ Basin, and SCOOP/STACK
2. 2025 U.S. Oil Outlook: Don’t Count On A “Drill Baby Drill” Mentality
3. Examining Bakken, DJ Basin, and Woodford Shale Production and Activity
4. Permian Producer Stocks Pummeled
5. Viper-Sitio Transaction Signals Strategic Shift in U.S. Royalty Landscape
6. Upstream Natural Gas Valuations: A Big Year
7. Oilfield Services Update for 2025
8. Oilfield Services Companies and How To Value Them
9. Should You Choose an Industry or Valuation Expert?
10. Why E&P Companies Need a Quality of Earnings Analysis

In addition to the blog posts above, we also publish the Mineral Aggregator Valuation Multiples Study each quarter. Here are the four issues released in 2025.

• Q4 | Market Data as of December 4, 2025
• Q3 | Market Data as of August 26, 2025
• Q2 | Market Data as of June 11, 2025
• Q1 | Market Data as of March 12, 2025

Finally, we published the 2025 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
• Refining and Marketing

Look for the 2026 study in late summer/early fall 2026.

Again, thank you to our readers. Happy Holidays!