Now come darker days for oil and gas mezzanine finance, with the closing of Shell Capital Inc. The shuttering follows ...

Many energy investors are disappointed when stock prices fall. These would be investors who bought at a peak. Craig Callahan ...

Sure, commodity prices have rebounded since last fall. And the acquisition-and-divestiture market is beginning to heat up. And yes, in ...

Producers and California Democrats are certainly unlikely allies, but it appears they may have found common ground when it comes ...

With the winds of last year's merger-and-acquisition gale still swirling through the streets of downtown Calgary, few will not ask ...

Ladyfern wells are so mighty that the ground rumbles when they are tested. Their rates are phenomenal-a lone well can ...

A year ago at this time, Houston was hit, and hard, by a100-year flood. Some 36 inches of rain fell ...

An otherwise learned young dot-com executive (there are still a few out there) told me recently that he was glad ...

There is a song lyric, "When life looks like easy street, there's danger at your door." This certainly applied to ...

1 Savoy Energy LP and Savoy Exploration Inc., Traverse City, Mich., have announced a new-field opener completed in Grand Traverse ...

1 Vastar Resources Inc., Houston, has made a Hidalgo County, Texas, shallower-pool discovery in the Santa Ana Field area that ...

1 A wildcat completed by Raymond Oil Co. Inc., Wichita, in Barber County, Kan., had an initial flow gauge of ...

1 Nevada's Pine Valley has a new producer completed by two Texas companies pumping 254 bbl. of oil and 16 ...

A number of significant exploration wells were drilled in the Northwest Territories this winter, reports Calgary-based consulting firm Canadian Discovery ...

Equity Company Exchange / Symbol Headquarters Amount Comments Spinnaker Exploration Co. (NYSE: SKE) Houston US$207.5 million Plans to issue 5 million shares of its common stock at US$41.50 each. ...

Several oil-service companies' efforts to reduce their tax liabilities may be for naught if Congress closes the loophole through which ...

• Devon Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, plans to sell properties in the U.S. and Canada for $953 million. According to ...

• APF Energy Trust, Calgary, plans to acquire a private company and its joint-venture partner's assets for approximately C$57 ...

• BlackRock Energy Capital Ltd., Houston, has been formed to provide capital of less than $5 million for acquisitions, monetizations ...

• EEX Corp., Houston, sold its Indonesian assets to PT Medco Energi International for $26.3 million in cash. EEX sold ...

As we noted in the recent cover story, "Northeast Buyside," the value players among institutional investors were out in force ...