Reaching into its famously deep pockets, Royal Dutch/Shell's plan to acquire the U.K.'s biggest-and only remaining large-independent, Enterprise Oil Plc, ...

"We have a problem." No other words have such power to send a shiver up the spine of a manager. ...

2001 was a good year for U.S. independent producers. Despite a fairly steady drop in oil and, especially, North American ...

People in the oil and gas industry constantly strive to improve exploration and development success rates, and one of the ...

It's all over but the shouting. There will be no drilling in ANWR, U.S. production declines will keep worsening and ...

Dutch/Shell hopes to buy the additional production growth it has found elusive recently: output will Royal increase 6% with the ...

Evergreen Resources Inc., one of the coalbed-methane specialists in the Rocky Mountain region, held onto its position as the independent ...

Equity Company Exchange / Symbol Headquarters Amount Comments GulfMark Offshore Inc. (Nasdaq: GMRK) Houston US$53.1 million Sold 1.5 million common shares for US$35.40 each. GulfMark offered an additional 225,000 ...

Santos Ltd. (Nasdaq: STOXY) is continuing its significant U.S. growth, with plans to acquire Houston independent Esenjay Exploration Inc. (Nasdaq: ...

He's back. Some 20 years after shaking up several major oil companies with unsolicited acquisition offers, T. Boone Pickens Jr. ...

Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL) plans to split its oil-service group and its engineering and construction group into separate, wholly owned ...

• Magnum Hunter Resources Inc., Irving, Texas, and Prize Energy Corp. have merged, and now have an enterprise value of ...

• NCE Petrofund Corp., Toronto, plans to acquire producing properties in central Alberta from a Canadian company for C$40.2 million. ...

• Royal Dutch/Shell, The Hague, The Netherlands, plans to buy London-based independent Enterprise Oil Plc for cash and notes, at ...

• J.M Huber Corp. has formed a producer-finance and risk-management business unit based in Houston. David Pruner, formerly of Enron ...

A well-worn play is attracting a fresh look, thanks to the efforts of a small Denver independent. In ...