Those in the know at Apache Corp. were certain that 2000 would be The Year of the Drill Bit. ...

Deregulation hit Canada with a jolt in recent months after Alberta surged ahead with its program that many considered premature ...

Amid recent $30 oil and $5 gas, and the run-up in E&P share prices fueled by merger rumors, one would ...

The road toward the highly controversial Eastern Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 181 has been a long one. During the ...

Signaling faith that North American natural gas will be a hot commodity for years to come, Shell Oil Co. ...

One of the freshest faces among public small-cap E&P companies is Denver independent Westport Resources Corp. Westport is hardly the ...

If the active rig count measures the pulse of the oil and gas business, then the acquisition and divestiture market ...

Once again, some very unfortunate events will no doubt hurt this industry and may set back its aspirations for the ...

The California electricity situation, more specifically its wriggling under the pressure of its light bills, is reminiscent of the survival-of-the-least-fit ...

While you and your investors are buying this stock and selling that one, with no care as to which exchange ...

1 Exploration in southern Illinois includes a wildcat being drilled by Carmi, Ill., independent George N. Mitchell Production Co. ...

1 Mestena Inc. , Corpus Christi, tested 2.02 million cu. ft. of gas and 110 bbl. of condensate per day ...

1 Jason Oil Co. , Russell, Kan., is drilling a Pennsylvanian Lansing-Kansas City wildcat at the #1 Walters in Cheyenne ...

1 Habanero Resources Inc. , Vancouver, says the drill pad is under construction at the newly permitted #3-26 Pale Rider, ...

The Canadian Maritimes have gained an onshore discovery and a new exploratory venture, reports consulting firm Canadian Discovery Ltd. of ...

Equity Company Exchange / Symbol Headquarters Amount Comments CNOOC Ltd. (NYSE: CEO) Beijing $1.25 billion Has priced 81.1 million ADRs in ...

After losing a bid for the U.K.'s Lasmo Plc and its multinational oil assets, Amerada Hess Corp. (NYSE: ...

• Shell Oil Co., Houston, has bid $55 per share for Barrett Resources Corp., Denver, cash. (See "Elephants ...

• TRC Capital Corp. has made an unsolicited tender offer to purchase up to 10 million Imperial Oil Ltd., Toronto, ...

• Accenture and Novistar Inc. plan to provide comprehensive accounting outsourcing services to the U.S. upstream energy market. Accenture ...

Omni Energy Services Corp. , Carencro, La., president and chief executive officer David Jeansonne and a passenger were killed Feb. ...

The talk among bulge-bracket marketmakers is that 2001 will be a robust year for equity-raising by the energy industry. But ...