Like most of its peers, the stock of BJ Services Co. (NYSE: BJS) recently has suffered somewhat from falling ...

In Calgary he's known as Mr. Patient Money, and Murray Edwards certainly has been patient. At age 41, the native ...

An uncommon production technique is reawakening central Oklahoma's slumbering oil patch. In 1995, geologist and Oklahoma native David Chernicky began ...

Once a company completes an initial public offering, how does it attract investor interest to assure its stock price fully ...

If at first you succeed, keep using the same business strategy-over and over. This, in substance, is the philosophy that ...

During the last 18 months, the mixed signals that have frustrated companies, their lenders and the deal pace could best ...

When Jack Parks was first offered several million dollars in private equity for his Houston-based start-up exploration and production company, ...

Geez, I think it's over. To get a U.S. energy policy through Congress this year, even a watered-down version, we ...

Oil industry merger, acquisition and divestment activity never really slows down. The price just changes. Underlying the lulls are the ...

Sir John Browne's vision for a world-class supermajor, propelled by synergies and cost-cutting after acquiring Amoco, Arco and Vastar Resources, ...

1 Savoy Energy LP and Savoy Exploration Inc. , both of Traverse City, Mich., have ...

1 Stone Energy Corp. , Lafayette, La., logged 74 ft. of net pay in two sands at its ...

1 American Warrior Inc. has staked its #2 Randall in Comanche County, Kan., offsetting two indicated discoveries. ...

1 Key Production Co. , Denver, has staked two wildcats in Glenn County, Calif., reports IHS Energy Group. ...

Exploration and appraisal activity in the U.K.'s harsh West of Shetlands offshore sector ought to be rejuvenated by the government's ...

Equity Company Exchange / Symbol Headquarters Amount Comments FMC Technologies (NYSE: FTI) Houston US$221 million Priced its initial public offering of ...

Dallas-based Hunt Oil Co.'s US$600-million bid for Canadian independent Chieftain International Inc. (Amex: CID) ...

Harken Energy Corp. (Amex: HEC) is aiming to reduce its international exposure, focusing instead on its U.S. ...

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: APC) has won in a bid for Gulfstream Resources Canada Ltd. ...

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. (NYSE: COG) is buying Denver-based Cody Co. , the parent ...

• Denbury Resources Inc., Dallas, plans to acquire privately held Matrix Oil & Gas Inc., ...

• El Paso Corp. , Houston, plans to acquire Velvet Exploration Ltd. for C$8.15 per ...

• Core Laboratories , Amsterdam, Netherlands, has acquired privately held Promore Engineering Inc. The combined ...

During the past year, there has been a shake-up in the U.S. private equity landscape, and the change could be ...