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Troy Eckard, CEO of Eckard Global, Carl Tricoli, co-founder and managing partner of Denham Capital Management, and Wil Vanloh, co-founder and chief executive of Quantum Energy Partners, participate in a panel discussion about deal-making in the energy industry and opportunities for private equity.

At the following LINK you can see the panel discussion from the Bloomberg Link Oil & Gas Conference in Houston

"It's actually very interesting in that the number of private equity backed companies that are typically bidding on a package of assets has gone up 3 or 4 fold...private equity is playing a much more active role today," Wil Vanloh.

"Companies are overwhelmed with the opportunities.  Right now I would say the oil and gas industry is like a pizza buffet on steroids; it's all you can it, you can get as much as you want but you have to figure out what you can actually digest," Troy Eckard.

"We actually like looking at gas assets right now, especially those that are economic today, that you can produce today and that have some optionality associated with them," Carl Tricoli.