Today oil and gas companies face two significant challenges that underscore the need to manage knowledge-an asset that people now ...

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For someone who once made his living shouting and waving his hands in other people's faces, J. Robert (Bo) Collins, ...

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Cimarex Energy Co. will not have any debt when it is formed in the spin-off of Helmerich & Payne Inc.'s ...

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1 Young Oil Corp., Knob Lick, Ky., reports it has brought in a third high-flowing Mississippian Fort Payne Reef oil ...

1 ExxonMobil Corp. has completed a producer in Baffin Bay Field, Kenedy County, Texas, flowing 38.961 million cu. ft. of ...

1 A stepout from the now abandoned 1967 discovery of Wolgamott Field in Barber County, Kan., has been completed by ...

1 Ivanhoe Energy Inc., Bakersfield, provides an update on the Aera Energy LLC #1-22 NWLH that's being drilled in Section ...

In 2000, Corridor Resources drilled an onshore New Brunswick tight-gas-sand discovery, the McCully #1, that attracted wide industry attention, reports ...

Equity Company Exchange / Symbol Headquarters Amount Comments PetroQuest Energy Inc. (Nasdaq: PQUE) Lafayette, La. US$19.8 million Issued 4.5 million of its shares at US$4.40 each. The proceeds will ...

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BJ Services Co., Houston, (NYSE: BJS) plans to buy Osca Inc., Lafayette, La., (Nasdaq: OSCA) for $28 per share, or ...

• Devon Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, has acquired Mitchell Energy & Development Corp., The Woodlands, Texas, for 0.585 share of ...

• Bonterra Energy Income Trust, Calgary, and Comstate Resources Income Trust have merged. The combined trust has established reserves of ...

• Benton Oil and Gas Co., Houston, will sell its 68% interest in Arctic Gas Co. to a nominee of ...

It's hard to believe. Last October, some prominent energy analysts at bulge-bracket firms actually had Buy or Market Perform ratings ...