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Magazine - April 2008

Three Texas Panhandle, Ark-La-Tex and Appalachia formations have uncommonly fine responses to multiple stimulations in horizontal wells.


FEATURES
Telling the Story

John Pinkerton addresses Range Resources’ award-winning investor-relations practices, its plans for developing its emerging plays and its five-year streak of consecutive production growth.

A Deal Made For an MLP

When MLP BreitBurn bought all of the Antrim and New Albany shale assets of Quicksilver Resources, it instantly more than doubled in size and gained a significant equity partner.

Bill Barrett Strikes Again

Bill Barrett Corp. has wrung an almost 100-fold increase in gas production from the West Tavaputs Plateau in Utah. Here’s how.

Heard at the Conference

The scoop on the Bear Stearns fall-out. 

Sierra Club Initiates an Unexpected Union

The Sierra Club's executive director describes the organization's view of U.S. natural gas production as a better energy source than coal, crude oil or imported LNG.

Before Knowledge Exits

A formal knowledge-transfer and mentoring program with specific goals will help oil and gas companies compete and propel new employees to greater performance.

Energy Deal-Arrangers Make Forecasts

Two Houston investment-banking firms expect 2008 to be an active year for M&A action and for IPOs and other financings.

Appalachian Drilling Stirs Cooperation

Coalbed-methane drilling in the Appalachian Basin has unique challenges that CDX Gas meets with partnerships and technology.

Seismic Firms Enjoy Boom

Offshore seismic firms are enjoying their day in the sun as high world oil prices support exploration economics. Their offerings have expanded to multi-and wide-azimuth surveying, and electromagnetic 3-D.

Investing in Energy Independence

The former chairman of GlobalSantaFe believes the free market will enable the U.S. to regain energy independence, and use cleaner technologies in the process. Here's how to invest now to participate in this.

NEWSWELL
SPECIAL REPORTS
Special Reports
 
FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Needed: A 12-Step Program

The Bush Administration's latest, and last, budget has absolutely no funding for oil and gas research at DOE.

COMPLETIONS
Know Thy Hostile Shareholder

Here's some advice on being proactive in working with activist hedge-fund managers.

TRENDS & ANALYSIS
Petrodollars and Realpolitik

Do MLPs pay more for proved reserves than C-Corps? No, according to Energy Spectrum Advisors.

CAPITAL MARKETS
Private Capital Rundown

Private-equity capital targeted to energy totaled $20.7 billion at year-end 2007.

M&A TRENDS
The Declining Deal Value

Do MLPs pay more for proved reserves than C-Corps? No, according to Energy Spectrum Advisors.

EVENTS
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E&P MOMENTUM
Grays Harbor Basin Calls Attention

Comet Ridge has assembled a commanding position in a western Washington State basin.

EXPLORATION HIGHLIGHTS
Eastern U.S.

Highlights from Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and more.

Western U.S.

Discoveries in the Nikaitchuq Field in Alaska, Grizzly Bluff Field in California, and more.

Midcontinent & Permian Basin

Highlights from Scott County, Kansas, Viola, Oklahoma, and more.

Gulf Coast

Highlights from the Ouachita Fold Belt in Ellis County, Texas, the Ship Shoal Block in Louisiana and more.

International Highlights - April

Highlights include the United Kingdom, Norway, and Russia.

NEW FINANCINGS
See recent financings
COMPANY BRIEFS
Nanes Hedge Fund Targets Vaalco Energy Venoco to Follow Through With MLP Anadarko Sells Down to StatoilHydro for $2.1B First Reserve to Buy CHC Helicopter Texaco and Chevron: Exploration Losers?
TECHNOLOGY REPORT
“Free Fuel” Used For Onsite Electric Power

A U.S. Department of Energy project is turning "free fuel" into onsite electric power.

BRIGHT SPOTS
Meet Greg Robbins

Guggenheim Partners' Greg Robbins discusses mentors and energy finance.

LEGENDS
Chatting with Pete Stark

IHS Energy's Pete Stark aims to provide oil and gas data for making good drilling decisions.

AT CLOSING
Bouncing Back

For the U.S. offshore drilling industry, this January wasn’t particularly illustrious, as shares in the sector sold off 13% for the month versus a like decline for the OSX (Oilfield Service Index) and a 9% dip for the S&P 500.