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Some 100 miles north of Los Angeles, over the Tehachapi Mountains, lies the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley FEATURES
TRUE WORTH
Some Wall Street analysts became prominent television celebrities in 2002, but not in the manner they would have preferred. The ...
LEADING-EDGE LOGGING
Since 1927, when the Schlumberger brothers ran the first electric log in a French oil well, logging technology has evolved ...
VALUING YOUR EXECUTIVES
CEOs aren't very popular these days. In fact, at least one recent article rated chief executive officers just slightly ahead ...
CHANGES IN OWNERSHIP
Complete the following price sequence: $2.46, $5.90, $2.89, $4.85....The ability to predict the likely answer will help define success and ... NEWSWELL
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FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
THE BIG SHOW
Experts dissected the big picture at the big show last month in Houston, the 20th annual oil conference of Cambridge ... COMPLETIONS
BUYING AGAIN
If needing more capital to continue expensive deepwater Gulf of Mexico exploration, Devon Energy Corp. isn't the place one would ... TRENDS AND ANALYSIS
High cash flows obscure cost creep and slower growth
No doubt about it, cash flows generated by high oil and gas prices in the past few months have made ... E&P MOMENTUM
LEASING & PERMITTING DATA
A review of the 2002 data from federal and state lease sales in the Rocky Mountain region indicates the market ... EXPLORATION HIGHLIGHTS
INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
Last year was lackluster for the U.K. offshore, reports Edinburgh-based consulting firm Wood Mackenzie. In 2002, 14 fields containing 400 ...
EASTERN U.S.
1 Shell Offshore Inc. has filed an exploration plan with the U.S. Minerals Management Service to drill as many as ...
GULF COAST
1 Sarita Oil & Gas Co., Bishop, Texas, is turning to the right at the #1 Hope Behne Ranch, a ...
MIDCONTINENT & PERMIAN BASIN
1 Mull Drilling Co., Wichita, has permitted a wildcat in a nonproducing township 13 miles south of Sharon Springs on ...
WESTERN U.S.
1 Ivanhoe Energy (USA) Inc., Vancouver, has started a steam-injection program to improve heavy-oil production from wells it operates in ... NEW FINANCINGS
New Financings - Equity/Debt table
Equity Company Exchange / Symbol Headquarters Amount Comments Oneok Inc. (NYSE: OKE) Tulsa US$491.4 million Plans to sell 12 million newly issued shares and US$275 million of equity units. ... COMPANY BRIEFS
BP commences massive investment in Russia
Russia-it's the destination du jour for Western companies looking to boost their oil production, in theory at least. In practice, ...
Plains, 3Tec combination reduces Plains' oil weight
The combination of Plains Exploration & Production Co. and 3Tec Energy Corp. will create new core areas for Plains in ...
El Paso to sell more assets to pay debt
Most of its refining business will be sold in El Paso Corp.'s 2003 round of cash-raising asset sales, which it ...
Additional briefs
Bill White, former chief financial officer of Pure Resources Inc., has formed a new E&P company, Amado Energy LP, ...
U.S. M&A
XTO Energy Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired coalbed-methane gas producing properties in southwestern Colorado from J.M. Huber Corp., ...
Canadian M&A
Enerplus Resources Fund, Calgary, plans to acquire PetroCorp Inc.'s, Tulsa, Okla., two Canadian subsidiaries, PCC Energy Inc. and PCC ...
International M&A...
Centrica Resources Ltd. plans to acquire 60% of the Southern North Sea Block 47/15b, containing the Rose gas discovery, ... ON THE MONEY
INTERNATIONAL ENJOYMENT
The past five years have been a period of sustained international growth for the large independents, according to an IHS ... EDITORS COMMENT
HEADLINES
COMPANIES IN THIS ISSUE
Companies in This Issue
3Tec Energy Corp. 83 A&D Strategies Conference 86 A.W. Tipka Oil & Gas Co. 69 Abaco Operating LLC 70 Access-Renova 83 Acclaim Energy Trust 17 Advantage Energy Income Fund 17 Aera Energy 34 Aethon I LP 88 Agip 77 Albrecht ... |