![]() Another option is to go on the offense and build a couple Cannons so you can hopefully pound your enemies into dust. Do you build a lot of Harvesters to earn massive loots? It's tricky because each Harvester you build dooms all the tiles surrounding it. offers plenty of interesting strategic possibilities. Even with these limited unit options, Greed Corp. Finally, the Carrier will transport Walkers to any tile on the map. A Cannon can be built to lob artillery at enemies and destroy their tiles. Armories will produce Walkers, your one movable unit that will go forth and claim tiles for you. Harvesters will drain resources from the land at the beginning of each turn until its tile is destroyed. Although there are many levels to the game (literally), you only have a few units to build. This is one of those games where the player with just one unit and one tile to their name might end up the victor in the end. Factions are eliminated if all their units and buildings are destroyed, but it is actually quite difficult to get a sense of who has the upper hand at any given time. When the dust settles, the player that survived the longest is the winner. Your objective is always the same: be the last man standing. is a visually exciting board game.Ĭlick here for destroy. The concept makes for great fun and I never tire of watching those columns crumble away and disappear into the nothing below. In order to harvest resources and build units you must consume the earth beneath your feet, and by the end of a game the landscape will be a mere skeleton of what it was when you began. is a land grab game that plays out on hexagonal boards, but the twist is that each hexagon can be destroyed. ![]() Add the US refining and marketing business to that, and roughly half of Chevron’s operating cash flow will be Made in the USA.Greed Corp. By next year, about 40% of the company’s operating cash flow would come from pumping oil and gas from onshore and offshore fields in America, according to Citigroup Inc. In expanding beyond the Permian into a second US shale basin, Chevron is becoming even more American, quickly reversing its internationalization following the merger with Texaco about two decades ago, when it created mighty business units in far flung locations like Australia and Kazakhstan. In both, Chevron is now one of the top producers. The oil game today is all about the Permian and the DJ basins. Another basin, the Anadarko-Woodford in Oklahoma, has probably peaked too. ![]() Of the five major American shale basins, two – where the revolution largely originated - are already past their prime: production in the Bakken, in North Dakota, and the Eagle Ford, in southern Texas, has peaked. Yet, there’s a strategic angle to it too. The purchase speaks volumes about the geographical and business shift ongoing in the US shale industry. From a business perspective, the question isn’t why Chevron is buying, but why PDC is selling. The company expects the transactions to be accretive to its shareholders immediately, adding about $1 billion to its annual free cash flow, a number that may go up as the synergies could be significantly larger than what Chevron indicated. PDC wasn’t an exception, and Chevron has bought oil and gas reserves relatively cheap, paying about $7-a-barrel for the inventory. Certainly, Chevron appears to have taken advantage of the fact that any oil company heavily exposed to Colorado tends to trade at a discount due to investor worries about environmental regulatory risk. On the surface, the deal may look more opportunistic than strategic. In its much better-known Permian location, it’s pumping about 800,000 barrels a day. If the deal closes by year end, as expected, Chevron would pump about 360,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day there, quickly approaching 400,000 barrels a day by 2024. Dig deeper, however, and the scale of the new business is evident. Almost out of the blue, the DJ basin will become one of Chevron’s top-five assets in terms of production and free cash flow. The location may surprise, because Colorado tends to fall under the radar of Wall Street, and the state is seen as more risky from a regulatory point of view than Texas or even New Mexico. In Chevron-speak, the DJ basin ads “another piston” to its already strong shale engine. Together, the two relatively small all-stock deals will transform Chevron into the largest oil and gas producer in the so-called Denver-Julesburg shale basin, which spreads across Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming. second, on Monday, it announced a $6.3 billion deal to buy PDC Energy Inc. has expanded its position in the US shale industry beyond the giant Permian basin- probably at a lower cost than it would have paid for Anadarko.įirst, it was the $5 billion deal in 2020 to acquire Noble Energy Inc. Even after being outbid for Anadarko Petroleum Corp.
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