https://pitchbook.com/tag/oil-gas oil-gas en-US Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:30:58 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/energy-spike-creates-pressure-points-for-europes-leveraged-finance-market The leveraged loan, direct lending and high-yield bond markets are at risk of wider credit spreads. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:30:58 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/energy-spike-creates-pressure-points-for-europes-leveraged-finance-market https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/trumps-vision-for-venezuelas-oil-reserves-unlikely-to-benefit-pe Stability could free up energy assets for buyout shops to acquire over the long term, in and outside of Venezuela Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:10:52 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/trumps-vision-for-venezuelas-oil-reserves-unlikely-to-benefit-pe https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/pe-investment-in-europes-oil-gas-continues-to-fall-but-the-big-deals-remain PE deal value and count in oil and gas is falling sharply, but large-cap deals are still happening Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:14:42 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/pe-investment-in-europes-oil-gas-continues-to-fall-but-the-big-deals-remain https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/oil-gas-profits-yield-spare-cash-climate-tech Oil and gas corporations have more spare cash than ever to throw at commercially untested early-stage climate technologies. Wed, 17 Apr 2024 22:40:04 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/oil-gas-profits-yield-spare-cash-climate-tech https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/pe-firms-mideast-middle-east-offices-abu-dhabi-saudi-arabia Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:24:39 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/pe-firms-mideast-middle-east-offices-abu-dhabi-saudi-arabia https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/real-assets-private-market-fund-returns Real assets fund performance beat other private capital strategies for the fourth quarter running. Wed, 07 Feb 2024 19:44:45 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/real-assets-private-market-fund-returns https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/exxon-pioneer-oil-gas-energy-pe-investors 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. Wed, 11 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/exxon-pioneer-oil-gas-energy-pe-investors https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/big-oil-climate-tech-cvc-amogy-aramco 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. Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/big-oil-climate-tech-cvc-amogy-aramco https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/real-assets-fund-return-high-2022 Funds invested in real assets like infrastructure and oil and gas showed record performance through Q1 2022. Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/real-assets-fund-return-high-2022 https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/oil-gas-sector-loans-crude-rally 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%. Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/oil-gas-sector-loans-crude-rally https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/kkr-pembina-pipeline-natural-gas-infrastructure PE's KKR and Pembina Pipeline have agreed to merge their western Canadian natural gas processing assets to create a natural gas processing heavyweight. Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/kkr-pembina-pipeline-natural-gas-infrastructure https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/private-equity-charts-2020-tech-oil-irr IT investments are more prominent in US private equity than ever before, plus four other significant trends from the year that was. Wed, 23 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/private-equity-charts-2020-tech-oil-irr https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/rigup-lands-300m-to-aid-energy-contractors-hits-19-billion-valuation RigUp has raised $300 million led by Andreessen Horowitz for its energy contractors platform. Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/rigup-lands-300m-to-aid-energy-contractors-hits-19-billion-valuation https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/there-will-be-buyouts-a-brief-history-of-texas-oil-and-private-equity Some of the fortunes created by the original Texas oil boom are still around today—and have become intertwined with the world of PE. Wed, 03 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/there-will-be-buyouts-a-brief-history-of-texas-oil-and-private-equity https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/next-big-thing-oiltech 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. Wed, 02 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/next-big-thing-oiltech