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Magazine - October 2002

The A&D business slowed down dramatically during the first half of 2002, compared with the frantic pace that was seen


FEATURES
IS THERE A NEW GAS-PRICE FLOOR

There are several positive and negative factors currently affecting the U.S. natural gas market that suggest the market will remain ...

A CHANGING MIDSTREAM MARKET

An "everything must go" atmosphere has enveloped the midstream energy industry as cash-starved energy merchants peddle their pipelines to stay ...

NEW LIFE IN OLD BASINS

Every year, the United States adds some fairly meaningful oil and gas reserves that are not the result of companies ...

EVALUATING THE MAJORS

Based on nine upstream performance indicators, BP beat its peers for the second consecutive year in the 12th annual Prudential ...

NEWSWELL
 
FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
A LOOK AT THE NEW

Perhaps the U.S. and Canadian rig counts are down by a third from last year due to a number of ...

COMPLETIONS
LOOKING UP

While boating back into Intercoastal City, Louisiana, from a morning shrimping and crabbing trip in Vermilion Bay this past Labor ...

TRENDS AND ANALYSIS
Conoco and Phillips Create Latest Megamajor

In a Labor Day weekend surprise, Conoco and Phillips Petroleum closed their long-awaited, $15-billion merger, which had been approved by ...

E&P MOMENTUM
LEASING & PERMITTING DATA

Leasing activity is holding steady in the Western Gulf of Mexico region. The Western Gulf Lease Sale 184, held August ...

EXPLORATION HIGHLIGHTS
INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

Calgary firm Talisman Energy has made a major natural gas discovery in the Monkman/Sukunka area of northeastern British Columbia, the ...

NORTHEAST/SOUTHEAST

1 Michigan's Lake County is the location of a new 4,900-ft. remote wildcat scheduled to be drilled by Savoy Energy ...

GULF COAST

1 Work is under way at a remote Real County, Texas, wildcat-the Rio-Tex Inc. #1201 Lewis in Section 12, Block ...

MIDCONTINENT & PERMIAN BASIN

1 Two counties in western Kansas have each claimed a new Pennsylvanian discovery, according to IHS Energy Group. In Ness ...

WESTERN U.S.

1 Ivanhoe Energy, Bakersfield, reports drilling has resumed after logging operations indicated the #1-22 Northwest Lost Hills, a wildcat in ...

NEW FINANCINGS
New Financings - Equity/Debt table

Equity Company Exchange / Symbol Headquarters Amount Comments Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc. NA New Orleans US$126.5 million Plans to sell US$126.5 shares. Goldman Sachs, CIBC World Markets, Jefferies & ...

COMPANY BRIEFS
Unlocal aims to reel Pure back into fold

Unocal Corp. (NYSE: UCL) is hoping to buy the shares of Pure Resources Inc., Midland, Texas, (NYSE: PRS) it does ...

Additional briefs...

• Conoco Inc. and Phillips Petroleum Co. have closed their merger. Net proved reserves are 8.7 billion BOE and daily ...

Canadian briefs...

• Provident Energy Trust, Calgary, plans to acquire Meota Resources Corp. for C$271 million in stock and cash, plus the ...

Capital providers

• Michael E. Frazier has been named president and chief operating officer of Houston-based investment-banking firm Simmons & Co. International. ...

International briefs...

• Petrobras plans to pay $89.5 million for control of Devon Energy Corp.'s Argentine unit, Petrolera Santa Fe. Petrolera has ...

ON THE MONEY
The Fall Buying Season

This summer, the Dow tested the 7,500 level. And it may again before October is out. Nonetheless, this may be ...

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