The industry has seen this movie before—collapsing commodity prices turn M&A deal-making on its head. The sequel adds a new twist: constrained capital markets.

Whipsawing prices, plummeting demand and frightening economics stress U.S. oil producers.

Rig counts are falling and capital markets are tight, but these players in the Fort Worth Basin’s Barnett shale keep growing production, reserves and take-away capacity. 

A new, small-footprint pumping unit installed near downtown Farmington, New Mexico, offers environmental advantages and no precision parts downhole.

With E&Ps facing a three-headed dragon of low commodity prices, closed financial markets and lender redeterminations, five industry experts suggest ways to get over the hump.

Rockies gas supplies moving to the Ohio Valley on the final leg of the Rex Pipeline will fight with increasing shale production from the Gulf Coast and Appalachia.

Energen chairman and CEO James McManus discusses Alabama shales, the company’s balance sheet and its buying power.

The two imminent issues in U.S. prosperity can solve each other.

A rollicking first-half 2008 for A&D quickly quieted down.

Banks adopt a more conservative stance in forward price decks.

The buy-build-exploit-sell business model has met its match in falling commodity prices.

A bevy of Haynesville hotties is turning heads.

Scientific research is needed to address outmoded H2S standards.