M&A Wave Hints at Eagle Ford Revival

How about that Eagle Ford-EF, basin? Sometimes you would think that the only place that E&P companies cared about was the Permian. It gets all the attention and the really big-tens of billions, deals in the M&A space have been focused there. But the Eagle Ford has seen a comparatively quiet resurgence in interest in the last several years, with a number of good sized-$2-3 bn dollar deals taking place, along with one $22 bn mega-deal between ConocoPhillips, (NYSE:COP), and Marathon Oil, NYSE:MRO). Production has remained in a fairly tight…