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Oil & Gas Quarterly

Launch Report: Oil & Gas

May 26, 2026

The Q1 2026 Launch Report: Oil & Gas provides in-depth analysis of industry trends and evolving PE investment strategies, including deals data and maps of key PE-backed companies and investors.

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Leveraged Loans

Energy spike creates pressure points for Europe’s leveraged finance market

April 17, 2026

The leveraged loan, direct lending and high-yield bond markets are at risk of wider credit spreads.

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Analyst Note

PitchBook Analyst Note: Navigating the Energy Implications of the Iran War

March 5, 2026

This analyst note assesses how the Iran conflict could disrupt oil & gas supply and spur renewed energy investment, with outcomes hinging on Hormuz access, OPEC capacity, and infrastructure damage.

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Analyst Note

PitchBook Analyst Note: The Elevated Oil Stakes of Iranian Stability

January 21, 2026

Iranian oil disruption could impact 3.5% of global supply. We examine risks to the Strait of Hormuz, US producer strategies, and PE investment opportunities in Iran’s energy sector if sanctions ease.

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Private Equity

Trump’s vision for Venezuela’s oil no immediate boon for PE

January 5, 2026

Stability could free up energy assets for buyout shops to acquire over the long term, in and outside of Venezuela

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Energy

PE investment in Europe’s oil, gas continues fall—but big deals remain

October 4, 2024

PE deal value and count in oil and gas is falling sharply, but large-cap deals are still happening

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Climate Tech

Bumper profits for oil and gas yield spare cash for moonshot climate-tech bets

April 17, 2024

Oil and gas corporations have more spare cash than ever to throw at commercially untested early-stage climate technologies.

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Private Equity

Go East: Maturing PE market speeds stream of GPs opening Mideast offices

March 8, 2024

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Infrastructure

Real assets outshines other private capital strategies

February 7, 2024

Real assets fund performance beat other private capital strategies for the fourth quarter running.

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M&A

Exxon’s $59.5B deal could spur energy investors

October 10, 2023

ExxonMobil’s plan to acquire Pioneer Natural Resources for $59.5 billion sets up the biggest corporate M&A deal in 2023. It could also encourage further dealmaking in the upstream oil and gas sector.

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Corporate VC

‘Big oil’ bankrolls more climate VC deals, a dilemma for founders

March 27, 2023

More than 20% of the VC climate tech deals closed in 2022 had participation from big oil and gas players like Shell, BP and Saudi Aramco.

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Infrastructure

Real assets fund returns reach decade-plus high

November 16, 2022

Funds invested in real assets like infrastructure and oil and gas showed record performance through Q1 2022.

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Oil & Gas

Sector Spotlight: Oil & gas loans decouple from crude rally

March 24, 2022

Through March 18, U.S West Texas Intermediate crude was up 39% in 2022. The market value of loans backing companies in the Oil & Gas sector, by contrast, had lost 1.16%.

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Oil & Gas

KKR makes new bet on growth in natural gas market

February 28, 2022

KKR and Pembina Pipeline have agreed to merge their western Canadian natural gas processing assets to create a natural gas processing heavyweight.

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Private Equity

The rise of tech, the decline of oil and more private equity charts from 2020

December 22, 2020

IT investments are more prominent in US private equity than ever before, plus four other significant trends from the year that was.

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Energy

RigUp lands $300M to aid energy contractors, hits $1.9B valuation

October 9, 2019

The developer of a contractor hiring platform for the energy industry has raised a $300 million Series D led by Andreessen Horowitz.

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Oil & Gas

There will be buyouts: A brief history of Texas oil and private equity

July 2, 2019

Some of the fortunes created by the original Texas oil boom are still around today—and have become intertwined with the world of PE.

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Europe

Next big thing: Oiltech

January 1, 2019

In the first edition of our “Next big thing” series, we take a look at the evolving commodities space and the emergence of oiltech and, to a wider extent, commoditech.

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