Riverstone-backed company circles US$3.8bn E&P

摘要

silver run acquisition Ⅱ, a special purpose acquisition company headed by former Anadarko Petroleum chief executive James Hackett and backed by Riverstone Croup, agreed to acquire not one, but two companies last week. The SPAC, which raised US$1.035bn on its IPO just three months ago, is paying US$3.8bn for oil and gas explorer Alta Mesa and Kingfisher Midstream, a midstream company whose anchor producer is Alta Mesa.