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Billionaires Are Licking Their Chops Over Distressed U.S. Oil And Gas Assets

• https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden

This comes at the same time that the volatility (read: decimation) of the oil and gas industry has scared off many other investors, according to Bloomberg

Names like Sam Zell, Tom Barrack Jr., and Jerry Jones are all being tossed around as investors who are looking at distressed assets. Zell has teamed up with Barrack Jr. to look at oil assets in California, Colorado and Texas. Jones' company, Comstock Resources, is looking to acquire natural gas assets from Chesapeake Energy. 

Companies are eager to sell at cheap prices to try and get ahead of an upcoming credit crunch. 

Zell said on Bloomberg yesterday: "I compared it recently to the real estate industry in the early 1990s, where you had empty buildings all over the place, and nobody had cash to play. That's very much what we're seeing today."


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