Secondary & Tertiary Recovery
Operators applying waterflooding and tertiary methods to mature fields.
Market snapshot
These figures describe Conventional Onshore E&P (7.5.1), the segment that Secondary & Tertiary Recovery sits within. They are not figures for Secondary & Tertiary Recovery on its own.
Not sized separately. Crude extraction is classified as one activity, so conventional production cannot be distinguished from shale. Shale now dominates the code, which would make any figure here a description of unconventional output wearing a conventional label. Conventional assets are bought for declining, predictable cash flow, the opposite of the shale case.
Business model & economics
Revenue model
Conventional oil and gas production sales
Key economics
- Revenue per firm
- $103,338,245
- Revenue per employee
- $4,795,268
- Employees per firm
- 17.1
- Recurring revenue
- Moderate
- EBITDA margin
- Cyclical; low-capital cash harvesting
- Capex intensity
- Moderate
steady low-decline production
Characteristics
- Scale-driven: payroll is only 2% of revenue, so the cost base is assets, not headcount
- Moderate strategic-buyer pool: 54 firms exceed 500 employees, so a scaled asset has buyers, but not many
- Mature, legacy fields and stripper wells.
- Low-decline, low-capital steady cash flow.
- Fragmented long tail of smaller producers.
NAICS 211120. U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Statistics of U.S. Businesses; U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census.
M&A deal context
Who’s acquiring
- Mature-asset & conventional consolidators
- Private-equity & income-focused buyers
- Smaller-operator roll-ups
What’s driving deals
- Mature-asset and stripper-well consolidation.
- Enhanced oil recovery and cash harvesting.
- Disciplined legacy-production management.
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