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September 16, 2025

Waterbridge (WBI): ~17% Upsized IPO Prices at (Expected) High-End of the Range ($20p/s)

By Timm Schneider

Within please find: Our final valuation at the final IPO terms, assuming upsized proceeds all go towards debt repayment; Implied valuation ranges from $15 – $37 per share (Read On); and How we believe WBI…

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September 16, 2025

Permian Acreage Continues to Set Records as a Large Public Drops a Casual ~$175K/ Acre Earlier Today

By Timm Schneider

We believe ~$175K/ acre is a new record. Granted – this was a small ticket item overall (~$28mm) for this operator – but it is nevertheless indicative of the ‘Tier 1 (hopefully) acreage chase.’ Seems…

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September 16, 2025

Waterbridge (WBI) IPO Said to Price at Top of Range as FOMO Casts an Apparently Wide Net

By Timm Schneider

…According to an article that hit Bloomberg a few minutes ago. That would imply a price of ~$20 per share based on the initial range of ~$17- $20. ***Updated Valuation Sheet Within*** This is expected…

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September 15, 2025

CRC’s ~$700mmm BRY Acquisition Announcement: Big Synergies or Big Stretch?

By Timm Schneider

Within we provide a full accretion/ dilution analysis and some quick thoughts on the CRC for BRY transaction announced earlier today. We use consensus estimates for both CRC and BRY and all of the provided transaction…

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September 14, 2025

Natural Gas: Options Positioning is Bearish – But We Remain (Stubbornly) Bullish

By Timm Schneider

Within, we provide a quick overview of our recent thoughts on natural gas. Recall we actively take (real money) natural gas positions – primarily via options (for better or worse). We believe this helps our active…

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September 14, 2025

Timm-inator 2: Market Judgment Day – This Week in Energy & Utilities (*NEW PUBLICATION*)

By Timm Schneider

Given all the AI hype we figured we’d give our weekly an AI undertone (read on)… oh, and I also like cats… Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a 1991 science fiction action film where the supercomputer…

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September 14, 2025

Your Energy & Utility News for the Week Ending September 13th

By Timm Schneider

For the news, we include a brief summary description for each headline. We only include links to news sources that do NOT require you to have a subscription to the respective site, or if they do, they are free of charge. However,…

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September 13, 2025

Waterbridge (WBI) IPO Prep Part 3: Survey Results Highlight Cautious Optimism

By Timm Schneider

Within, we share with you the full results of our recent WBI pre-IPO survey. We expect the issue to price next week (as early as Tuesday). As such, we will be avaible all weekend to…

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September 10, 2025

Waterbridge (WBI) IPO Prep Part 2: Quick Takes from the Deal Roadshow, S-1 & Some Investor Feedback (So Far)

By Timm Schneider

This offering is expected to price around September 16, 2025. We listened to the roadshow presentation (all documents available online) – a straightforward ~30-minute overview. Within, we provide initial feedback as well as some insights…

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September 8, 2025

Energy IPOs Have Performed Awful YTD – Can Waterbridge (WBI) Turn the Tide; Part 1

By Timm Schneider

Waterbridge (WBI) set its preliminary pricing range today, implying an equity value of ~$575mm (mid) assuming the full shoe. We are not opining on valuation at this point (but we have some ideas…). Stay tuned….

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September 8, 2025

Permian Well Permits, Wells Drilled, and Oil Completions Nose-Dive in August. EF Gas Still Strong (?!)

By Timm Schneider

Within, we provide our thoughts on The Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) most recent monthly ‘Summary of Drilling Permits, Completions and Plugging Reports Processed’ for the month of August 2025. Texas Oil & Gas Activity Data for…

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September 7, 2025

Your Energy & Utility News for the Week Ending September 7th

By Timm Schneider

For the news, we include a brief summary description for each headline. We only include links to news sources that do NOT require you to have a subscription to the respective site, or if they do, they are free of charge. However,…

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September 6, 2025

Natural Gas: Framing the Set-Up for Equities & the Commodity

By Timm Schneider

Within, we provide a quick overview of our recent thoughts on natural gas. We also look at implied valuations for the domestic E&P sector (what prices are consensus expectations implying; etc) and the most recent…

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September 5, 2025

Natural Gas: We’re Still Long… But Rolled to some DEC Calls

By Timm Schneider

Greetings from the road. As always, updating our positioning briefly. We are currently long the commodity via: Oct (NG1) $3.50 Calls (LNE); Expiry Sep 25th 2025 DEC (NG3) $4.50 Calls (LNE); Expiry Nov 24th 2025…

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September 3, 2025

Permian in Focus: Process of Elimination – Why PAA/PAGP Was the Natural Buyer for EPIC

By Timm Schneider

Investor conversation around Plains All American (PAA) and its newly acquired 55% stake in EPIC has been, let’s call it, ‘polarized.’ Spreadsheet purists keep pounding the table on buybacks – so they don’t like the…

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