The Big Shuffle

摘要

In the speed version of the classic board game Monopoly, all the players buy every property they land on the first time around the board. As soon as all the lots are bought, a heavy round of haggling follows, where competitors scramble to swap or buy the properties that will give them the best advantage. Banks lending to the oil and gas industry say that phase has come to the real-life world of upstream acreage, with producers of all sizes making asset deals to consolidate holdings.