Deon Daugherty

Houston

Editor-in-Chief at Oil and Gas Investor

Editor-In-Chief Oil & Gas Investor, a https://t.co/jpdHCJBe2i magazine Independent journalist. Investigative reporter. Old School pest. #energytwitter

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Articles

Money Talks: UMB Bank on Impacts of Upstream Consolidation

3 days ago | hartenergy.com | Deon Daugherty

Hart Energy queried banks across the U.S. oil and gas investment space to analyze the lending environment amid uncertain times. This exclusive interview with Zachary Leard, vice president/energy group, UMB Bank, is the second in a four-part series with Oil and Gas Investor. Deon Daugherty, editor-in-chief, Oil and Gas Investor: What are your goals for working with the oil and gas industry during the next 12-18 months? What factors will influence your engagement?
Money Talks: First Horizon's Investment Thesis on Oil, Gas

4 days ago | hartenergy.com | Deon Daugherty

Hart Energy queried banks across the U.S. oil and gas investment space to analyze the lending environment amid uncertain times. This exclusive interview with is the first in a five-part series with Oil and Gas Investor. Deon Daugherty, editor-in-chief, Oil and Gas Investor: What are your goals for working with the oil and gas industry during the next 12 to 18 months? What factors will influence your engagement?
Money Talks: First Horizon's Investment Thesis on Oil, Gas Investing

4 days ago | hartenergy.com | Deon Daugherty

Hart Energy queried banks across the U.S. oil and gas investment space to analyze the lending environment amid uncertain times. This exclusive interview with is the first in a five-part series. Deon Daugherty, editor-in-chief, Oil and Gas Investor: What are your goals for working with the oil and gas industry during the next 12 to 18 months? What factors will influence your engagement?
Market Volatility Sidelining Some Energy Investment

1 month ago | hartenergy.com | Deon Daugherty

The common concerns of demand and supply aren’t putting natural gas investors and executives on edge these days. Rather, it’s the breakneck pace of tariffs and threats of tariffs, sanctions, trade war and general uncertainty that make it tough to take market action. The volatility is so pervasive that global investment firms such as The Carlyle Group are largely on the sidelines.
Lone Star State of Mind: Rockcliff Energy III Sets Sights on Texas Shale Assets

1 month ago | hartenergy.com | Deon Daugherty

Rockcliff Energy III brings together Alan Smith, a long-time leader in the industry and former CEO of Rockcliff I and II, with former Chesapeake Energy executive Sheldon Burleson. The pair are leading the newly formed E&P with private equity firm Quantum Capital Group, and have their eyes on Texas assets in the Haynesville and Eagle Ford shales.
Q&A: Pearl Energy Investments Rides the Downturns for 250% ROI

1 month ago | hartenergy.com | Deon Daugherty

William J. “Billy” Quinn’s Pearl Energy Investments is the driving force of some of the nation’s most successful energy investments during the last 20 years in terms of simple net return on investments. As founder and managing director of the firm, Quinn has led a baker’s dozen of colleagues, including industry veterans and next-gen rock stars, to assemble investments in energy when it wasn’t just not cool—general interest was frozen over.
Q&A: Petrie Partners Co-Founder Offers the Private Equity Perspective

2 months ago | hartenergy.com | Deon Daugherty

Mike Bock, co-founder of Petrie Partners, shares his perspective on how deals will be made in oil and gas this year in an exclusive interview with Oil and Gas Investor. Deon Daugherty, editor-in-chief, Oil and Gas Investor: What do you expect to emerge as the top trends for energy finance in the short-term and then across 2025?
The Aggregators: Avant’s Winning Formula to Deliver Returns

2 months ago | hartenergy.com | Deon Daugherty

In less than five years, private E&P Avant Natural Resources has built two businesses in the Permian Basin, sold them off and is ready to do it again. Co-founders and co-CEOs Jacob Nagy and Skyler Gary spoke exclusively with Oil and Gas Investor about their winning formula. Deon Daugherty, editor-in-chief, Hart Energy: Your deal selling to Coterra Energy should close any minute now, so what’s next?
Hamm: Interior, DOE Leadership is a ‘Dream Team’

2 months ago | hartenergy.com | Deon Daugherty

It’s fair to say the founder and executive chairman of Continental Resources has some influence with the current administration on energy policy matters and who’s going to put them in place. “Believe it or not, (President) Donald Trump listens,” Hamm said on Feb. 5 during the 2025 NAPE Summit’s Governors Energy Forum. “A lot of people don't believe that, but he does listen, and he is so smart.”Hamm spoke alongside Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon, filling in for Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma.
VanLoh: US Energy Security Needs ‘Manhattan Project’ Intensity

2 months ago | hartenergy.com | Deon Daugherty

The energy industry is transitioning—but the shift is more about the global economy, supply and demand and recognizing that natural resources and capital are finite, said Wil VanLoh, founder and CEO of Quantum Capital Group. Action is needed now to preserve the U.S.’ energy security and dominance, and an ‘all of the above’ strategy is critical, VanLoh said during a keynote speech at the 2025 NAPE Summit on Feb. 5 in Houston.