With a softening of the U.S. market for natural gas, many in the business are wondering if plans for increased ...

Norway ranks as the No. 1 place to live in the world, according to the U.N. Human Development Report. Norwegians ...

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In the words of Xiang Yu, a 19th-century Chinese poet, the emerging majors have "strength to lift mountains and spirit ...

Recession is a reality. So are low commodity prices and less-than-robust oil and gas stock valuations. In such an environment, ...

Value is a fleeting concept, whether it involves owning a blue-chip in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a high-profile technology ...

Are you a disciple of the value-investing gurus Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett? Have you observed that investors often become ...

The noted geophysicist M. King Hubbert (1903-1989) was the first man to effectively apply principles of geology, physics and mathematics ...

Maybe we should have seen this coming-after all, no company is that good. And nothing goes up forever. Nothing. Since ...

El Paso Corp. is hoping to fast-forward some huge E&P asset divestments, in advance of the expiration of pooling-of-interests rules. ...

The decline of Enron Corp. (NYSE: ENE) is a loss-temporarily or permanently-of a major source of capital to the E&P ...

1 Howard Energy Corp., Mount Carmel, Ill., is preparing to drill to 7,000 ft. in Cambrian at the #1 Shaglee ...

1 The neighboring counties of Starr and Jim Hogg in South Texas each has a new discovery completed by Dominion ...

1 New exploration in Kansas includes three tests where drilling is under way, reports IHS Energy Group. In Stevens County, ...

1 First Goldwater Resources Inc., Vancouver, reports a Fresno County, Calif., exploratory well in which it has an 8% working ...

Activity has been robust offshore Nova Scotia. At press time, PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd. was drilling ahead at its Southampton A-25, ...

Equity Company Exchange / Symbol Headquarters Amount Comments Duke Energy Corp. (NYSE: DUK) Charlotte, N.C. US$750 million Publicly offered equity ...

The combination of Conoco Inc. (NYSE: COC) and Phillips Petroleum Co. (NYSE: P), to be called Conoco Phillips, will be ...

The $3.5-billion merger of Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (NYSE: PGO) and Veritas DGC Inc. (NYSE: VTS) will create the second-largest geophysical ...

• El Paso Corp., Houston, will sell approximately $2.25 billion in assets in 2002 as part of a plan to ...

• Ultima Energy Trust, Calgary, will acquire two oil-producing properties and associated facilities in central Alberta, with an average working ...

• EuroGas Inc., Vienna, Austria, has acquired a 58.5% interest in Medusa Oil & Gas, a subsidiary of Ramco Energy ...

Oil production from the North Sea has reached its pinnacle, and the entire region is changing, contends Roger D. Read, ...