PwC US notes that first-quarter deal volume and value increased year over year, and shale deals comprised 46% of total deal volume.

Private equity firms Trilantic Capital Partners and Riverstone Holdings have invested in Trail Ridge Energy Partners II, a newly-formed oil and gas exploration and production company focused primarily in the Permian Basin in West Texas. 

Independent research firm IHS Herold Inc. has provided OGFJ with updated production data for our periodic ranking of US-based private E&P companies. The rankings are based on operated production only within the United States.

Ridgebury Tankers LLC, a new tanker company focused on the acquisition and operation of vessels in the tanker sector, said April 11 that it has received a $200 million commitment from Riverstone Holdings LLC, an energy private investment firm, alongside a $5.7 million commitment from Ridgebury management.

TPH Partners II LP, a middle-market energy private equity fund, has formed Principle Petroleum Partners LLC, an independent upstream company headquartered in Dallas.

Ridgemont Equity Partners and Post Oak Energy Capital have committed $100 million to the management team of Titan River Energy LLC.

Capstone Natural Resources Partners LP, a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based oil and gas producing company, has acquired oil properties in Andrews and Gaines Counties in West Texas for $50 million.

AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN HOPPER, PRESIDENT AND CEO, AND LUKE SABAN, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND CFO, OF PEREGRINE MIDSTREAM PARTNERS

NBGI Private Equity, investor in Aberdeen-based ATR Group, has acquired the Aberdeen and Norway operations of Cosalt Offshore.