Diamondback Energy 与 Permian E&P Endeavor Energy Resources 价值 260 亿美元的合并，因受到联邦贸易委员会 (FTC) 的严格审查，被搁置数月之久，最终完成，创造了分析师所称的盆地中“最后也是最好的石油沙箱”。

Bernstein Research 的 Bob Brackett 表示：“我们认为 FANG/Endeavor 的合并是一个独特的‘沙盒’，拥有大片连续的优质二叠纪油田。”用 Bernstein Research 的话来说，沙盒是一种大型单盆地资源，拥有巨大的开采空间，并有机会在一个地方应用集中技术。

为了达到这一目标，Diamondback 经历了联邦贸易委员会的两次广泛审查。在此期间，彭博社报道称，该公司、Hess Corp. 和 Occidental Petroleum 等公司因与 OPEC 的沟通而受到联邦贸易委员会调查人员的调查。 

Diamondback Energy’s $26 billion merger with Permian E&P Endeavor Energy Resources—bogged down for months under extensive review by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)—has closed, creating what an analyst called “the last and best oil sandbox” in basin.

“We see a combined FANG/Endeavor as a unique ‘sandbox’ of large contiguous high quality Permian acreage,” Bernstein Research’s Bob Brackett said. A sandbox, in Bernstein Research’s vernacular, is a large single-basin resource with massive running room and the opportunity for focused technology to be applied in one place.

To get to this point, Diamondback endured two extensive reviews by the FTC. Along the way, there were reports by Bloomberg that the company, Hess Corp. and Occidental Petroleum, among others, were being probed by FTC investigators over their communications with OPEC.