In 1909, John Moody introduced a simple grading system for U.S. railroad bonds that summarized their credit quality. He expressed ...

While the majority of independents are increasingly pinning their hopes and fortunes on natural gas, a few companies remain heavily ...

In the largest divestiture of federal property in the nation's history, Occidental Petroleum purchased the federal government's 78% interest ...

One of the most entertaining and enjoyable developments to hit the oil and gas industry in the last two years ...

Now that the millennium hype is past, what's ahead for the oil and gas industry? It's fair to say that ...

Financial editor Nick Snow was in Boston to interview oil and gas industry financiers for this month's cover, when the ...

The following recommendations-either positive or negative-are strictly the opinion of the analysts or brokerages noted, which may have an interest ...

1 Pioneer Oil Co., Lawrenceville, Ill., has added an oil producer to the Posey County, Ind., Spencer Consolidated Field, reports ...

1 An Oligocene Vicksburg discovery, that flowed at a combined rate of 10.75 million cu. ft. of gas and 216 ...

1 An oil discovery completed by Younger Energy Co., Wichita, in Lane County, Kan., made 75 bbl. per day on ...

1 Source Energy, San Diego, has set production pipe at the #1 SE Garrison City, a new wildcat in Section ...

Royal Dutch/Shell has agreed with Iran to invest $800 million to develop two Persian Gulf heavy-oil fields, Soroush and Nowruz. ...

Seitel Inc. (NYSE: SEI), Houston, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to spin off its oil and gas exploration ...

A commercial bank group, led by Bank of Montreal, approved an increase in the borrowing base for Vintage Petroleum Inc. ...

The $200-million initial public offering of Houston-based Mariner Energy LLC, which will trade on Nasdaq as MEGY, was still waiting ...

Executives of Plains Resources Inc. and Plains All American Pipeline LP, both in Houston, had an unsettling Thanksgiving week, while ...

• BP Amoco Plc, London, is buying a significant part of Repsol-YPF's holding in Crescendo Resources LP, Amarillo, Texas, for ...

Plenty of bidders, including energy conglomerates and electric companies, will be lining up once Mitchell Energy & Development Corp. goes ...

Independent refiner-marketers are most likely to snap up domestic downstream properties that Exxon Mobil Corp. must divest as part of ...

A year ago, both mainstream and contrarian global oil and gas analysts served up bright to bleak visions of future ...

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