EnCap Investments has closed an energy infrastructure fund with $791.6 million in capital commitments. The vehicle will focus on the midstream sector of the oil and gas industry in North America, and will be managed in partnership with Flatrock Energy Advisors.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil and gas exploration company Oasis Petroleum Inc filed for an initial public offering of up to $350 million on Thursday. Houston, Texas-based Oasis is an independent oil and natural gas exploration and development company. Most of the company’s business is focused in the Williston Basin in northeastern Montana and northwestern [...]

EnCap Investments LP is plotting its eighth fund and may need a placement agent to help it tap international investors. David Miller, a co-founder of the Houston based firm, told Buyouts that EnCap will start raising the fund late in first quarter or early in second quarter 2010. The firm will likely target somewhere in [...]

EnCap Energy Infrastructure Fund and TPH Partners have formed Meritage Midstream Services, a Golden, Colo.-based provider of midstream services to oil and gas producers. No details of the equity commitments were disclosed.

It’s kind of like a model exclaiming “Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.” Thanks to strong performances, energy-focused buyout funds are meeting LP’s allocation caps. How can that be possible, you ask? It’s all about percentages. An LP told me there are a number of strong energy-focused firms in the market “that are working harder [...]

When a man that’s made his living on oil and gas tells you we need to use less oil and gas, I’ll drop everything to listen. That’s essentially the message I got from Gary R. Peterson of oil and gas PE firm EnCap Investments. “This isn’t the party line you’ll get from most oil guys,” [...]