XTO Energy made its formal debut June 1 as the new corporate moniker for Cross Timbers Oil Co. No new ...

It may be conventional wisdom to assume that outstanding oil and gas discoveries can no longer be made anywhere except ...

Armed with the lofty ambition of "Repowering America," Calpine Corp. of San Jose, California, aims to become the nation's largest ...

Oilfield service and supply firms have been claiming some of the public-equity pie for themselves, in their initial public offerings ...

Knowing a little about a lot can take an investor a long way. But knowing a lot about a little ...

It is difficult to imagine a less controversial corporate goal than shareholder wealth creation. Nearly all public companies pay at ...

In Houston, the energy capital of the world, it's common sport to pontificate, with a somewhat superior eye, on gasoline ...

Three years ago, liquefied natural gas turned up in a conversation concerning how Anadarko Petroleum Corp. ended up exploring for ...

The world's oil and gas producers are increasing their 2001 capital budgets beyond the healthy gains they established in December ...

1 State Oil Properties Inc., Newton, Ill., plans to evaluate Silurian at a new wildcat staked in Cumberland County, Ill., ...

1 A remote wildcat, the #2 San Ambrosia, drilled by Lewis Petroleum Properties Inc. in Webb County, Texas, has been ...

1 John O. Farmer Inc., Russell, Kan., is drilling another wildcat in the company's ongoing southwestern Kansas drilling program. The ...

1 An extended flow test of a 15-ft. perforated interval in Winters at Woodland, Calif., independent Production Specialties Co.'s #3-26 ...

Exploration in New Zealand's Taranaki Basin is hopping, and U.S. firms are in the thick of the action. Houston independent ...

Equity Company Exchange / Symbol Headquarters Amount Comments Statoil ASA NA Oslo, Norway US$3.8 billion The Norwegian government has set June 18 as the target date for listing Statoil ...

Denver's Westport Resources Corp. (NYSE: WRC) will vault into the ranks of the nation's 20 largest independent producers when it ...

Oklahoma City-based Kerr-McGee Corp.'s (NYSE: KMG) purchase of Rockies gas producer HS Resources Inc. (NYSE: HSE) will boost its portfolio ...

Conoco Inc. (NYSE: COCA) has made a decisive move to expand its upstream portfolio with a C$9.8-billion (US$6.3-billion) purchase of ...

Pride International Inc. (NYSE: PDE) and Marine Drilling Cos. Inc. (NYSE: MRL) will merge in an all-stock transaction that would ...

• Continental Resources Inc., Enid, Okla., plans to acquire the assets of privately owned Farrar Oil Co., Mt. Vernon, Ill. ...

• Baytex Energy Ltd., Calgary, has increased its offer to acquire Triumph Energy Corp., Calgary, from C$3.70 to C$4.17 per ...

Alaska's North Slope bursts with tremendous stores of natural gas. The amount is prodigious: North Slope fields contain about 35 ...

A.G Edwards & Sons 27, 95 Agip 83 Alberta Energy 39 Amerada Hess 11, 71, 83 Amoco 64 Anadarko Petroleum Corp. 4 Anadarko Petroleum Corp. 9, 16, 35, 65, 68, 76, 84, ...