AllianceBernstein Energy Opportunities

Hey WSO,

Long-time user but I am (obviously) employing a throwaway account here to mask my identity. I'm looking for information on alliance bernstein's energy opportunities fund as I am in the interview process with them. From what I've gathered thus far they invest in private debt/equity deals across the capital stack within the energy space, mostly upstream. Also engage in some public deals but that is a smaller part of their focus. Would like to know if any of you have some familiarity with them and some visibility into comp, work/life, etc. They also mentioned a case study as part of the interview process so information on that (and any other information re: the hiring process) would be really helpful. This is a pretty big opportunity for me to jump from the sell-side to the buy-side and I'd like to have all my ducks in a row. Thanks for the help.

Tagging some O&G ppl that I've seen post that seem pretty knowledgeable here about TX energy space: @Texas Tea" @Pump Jack Pete" @LeonTree" @DHopkins516" @Tricky Triangles" @MMBanker14" @Houston_OG" @Stringer Bell"

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Congrats on getting an interview. I've run across AB before in the upstream space, at the time they were still running everything out of NYC. They're somewhat new to principal investing in oil & gas deals. From what I gathered, they tend to chase lower risk deals (core of basin's, midstream/gathering, minerals, etc.) and invest along side more established E&P focused PE funds that already have teams in place, covering their G&A, and doing the heavy lifting when evaluating the technical feasibility of deals. Other than that I don't have a lot of insight in to that group. Best of luck.

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