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On a March day half a millennium ago, Pedro Alvares Cabral sailed west from the mouth of the Tagus River FEATURES
RECIPE FOR GROWTH
Houston-based 3Tec Energy Corp. is a great example of the rejuvenation and renewal so common to the volatile independent oil ...
GROWING LEADERS
It's no surprise that Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in ...
THE THIRD WAVE
It seems that barely a week passes when merger news in one industry or another does not make headlines. Consequently, ...
BEST UPSTREAM MAPLE LEAFS
In most other industry cycles, $25 to $30 oil prices and $2.50 to $3 natural gas prices have triggered market ... NEWSWELL
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FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
PROCURING NEW PATHS TO SUCCESS
Return on capital employed was the mantra chanted by nearly every executive speaker at the 28th annual investment conference of ... COMPLETIONS
PELLUCIDITY
There is a dot-com site (Dictionary.com) that offers an e-mail service, "Word of the Day." Most of these words are ... TRENDS AND ANALYSIS
Occidental Petroleum (NYSE-OXY)
"We recommend the purchase of Occidental shares based on the prospect of significantly higher oil, gas and chemical earnings during ...
Talisman Energy Inc (NYSE, TSE-TLM)
"We believe that Talisman Energy is positioned for a blowout year in 2000-given its highly visible production gains in the ... E&P MOMENTUM
EXPLORATION HIGHLIGHTS
NORTHEAST/SOUTHEAST
1 New exploration slated for Illinois includes a new-field wildcat being started in Clinton County and two locations staked in ...
GULF COAST
1 Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas Corp., Oklahoma City, re-established production in the abandoned Mustang Island Block 774-L Field in Texas ...
MIDCONTINENT & PERMIAN BASIN
1 Raydon Exploration Inc., Oklahoma City, is drilling a wildcat in Hamilton County, Kan., that's scheduled to go to 5,200 ...
WESTERN U.S.
1 Crest Energy Corp., Napa, Calif., is drilling a new-field wildcat in Glenn County, Calif., reports IHS Energy Group. The ...
INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
State oil company Ecopetrol has signed two new association contracts with foreign operators working in Colombia, and both sides appear ... NEW FINANCINGS
EQUITY
OSCA Inc. (NASDAQ: OSCA), Lafayette, La., registered an initial public offering of Class A common shares for $143.75 million with ...
DEBT
Pioneer Natural Resources Co. (NYSE: PXD), Dallas, cancelled its $400 million offering of 10-year unsecured senior notes. The debt was ... COMPANY BRIEFS
Anadarko acquiring bigger oil - UPR
No one disputed the idea that merging Anadarko Petroleum Corp. with Union Pacific Resources Group Inc. will create significant long-term ...
Phillips buying Arco's Alaskan assets, for $7B
In a deal that will nearly double its reserves, Phillips Petroleum Co. is buying Atlantic Richfield Co.'s Alaskan upstream and ...
Mitchell removes its 'For Sale' sign
After six months of investigating a possible sale, Mitchell Energy & Development Corp. scratched the idea and decided to remain ...
Additional briefs
BP Amoco is seeking to buy the shares of publicly traded Vastar Resources Inc., Houston, that Atlantic Richfield Co. ...
International briefs...
BP Amoco, London, is forming a joint venture with PetroChina Corp., a unit of state-owned China National Petroleum Corp., ... ON THE MONEY
JUST AROUND THE CORNER
The deepwater Gulf of Mexico is showing signs of life once again. "We've seen some modest improvement in activity in ... EDITORS COMMENT
HEADLINES
COMPANIES IN THIS ISSUE
Companies in This Issue
3Tec Energy Corp. 52 A2D Technologies 29 Agip 44, 82, 83 Alberta Energy Co. Ltd. 67, 86 Alberta Energy Corp. 14, 15 Allegro Development 55 Allegro ... |