Hart Energy Publishing
Magazine - September 2003

An impressive array of reservoirs-stretching across almost the entire Paleozoic Era-produce oil, gas and condensates in the Permian Basin, one


FEATURES
EXPLORING OFFSHORE WESTERN CANADA

The British Columbian Ministry of Energy & Mines is working on a campaign to spark interest in drilling off the ...

GOING PRIVATE

This summer saw a quartet of small-cap public exploration and production companies going private. It also marked the first anniversary ...

GAS-MARKETING CAPACITY

Exit, stage left: numerous gas mega-marketers. Enter, stage right: gas producers who have to fend for themselves to sell gas ...

FALSE START

A burst of U.S. upstream merger and acquisition activity in the first quarter of 2003 fizzled in the second quarter. ...

NEWSWELL
 
FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
NATURAL GAS HIGHS AND LOWS

North American natural gas scenarios were the talk of the town last month. In Denver, that is. Nearly1,000 executives and ...

COMPLETIONS
ANADARKO FOR SALE?

Balance sheet restructuring at Anadarko Petroleum Corp. made for campy whispers in August in Denver where more than 1,000 E&P ...

TRENDS AND ANALYSIS
How Commodity-Price Forecasts Affect the Flow of U.S. Assets

In recent years, the volatility of oil and gas prices has been a major factor in choppy asset-deal flow. Oil ...

E&P MOMENTUM
PLENTY OF GAS, BUT IT'S IN THE GROUND

Attendees at the Colorado Oil & Gas Association's annual meeting in Denver in early August were treated to expert viewpoints ...

LEASING AND PERMITTING DATA

A land play in New Mexico's Harding, Guadalupe, DeBaca, San Miguel and Quay counties has been gaining ground, says Mark ...

EXPLORATION HIGHLIGHTS
EASTERN U.S.

1 Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Houston, set a record by completing the first gas producer in the Lloyd area of the ...

GULF COAST

1 Lehnertz-Faulkner Inc., Tyler, is drilling the #1 Malbrue, a proposed 12,100-ft. wildcat about 10 miles northwest of Cayuga in ...

MIDCONTINENT & PERMIAN BASIN

1 Wichita, Kan.-based Stelbar Oil Corp. Inc. plans two wildcats to 5,600 ft. about three miles southeast of Manter in ...

WESTERN U.S.

1 Key Production Co. Inc., Denver, drilled a gas discovery with its #1-4 Lady Monarchs in Section 4-16n-1w in Colusa ...

INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

Apache Corp. is enjoying outstanding results in its exploration efforts in Egypt's Western Desert. The Houston-based firm tested its Qasr-1X ...

NEW FINANCINGS
New Financings - Equity/Debt table

Equity Company Exchange / Symbol Headquarters Amount Comments Pengrowth Energy Trust (Toronto: PGF) Calgary C$118.7 million Plans to sell 7 million trust units. Underwriters are led by RBC Capital ...

COMPANY BRIEFS
Forrest oil management change-up under way

At the end of September, Robert S. Boswell will step down as chairman of Denver-based Forest Oil Corp. Earlier this ...

Whiting Petroleum

Denver-based Whiting Petroleum Holdings Inc. expects to be spun out by its parent company, Alliant Energy Corp., a Madison, Wis.-based ...

Icahn retains stake in National Energy Group

When National Energy Group Inc. recently sold some of its debt and stock to American Real Estate Partners LP, it ...

Buffett invests in seismic company

Legendary investor Warren Buffett is building a position in the troubled seismic services market through a Berkshire Hathaway Inc. investment ...

Additional news

• PetroHawk Energy LLC, Houston, has been formed by former 3Tec Energy Corp. executives Floyd C. Wilson, Steve W. Herod, ...

U.S. E&P M&A news

• Chesapeake Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, has gained an estimated 135 billion cu. ft. equivalent of proved reserves in the ...

Canadian E&P M&A news

• Murphy Oil Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Murphy Oil Corp., El Dorado, Kan., plans to sell its interests in ...

International M&A news

• Energy North Sea Ltd. plans to buy 41% interests in the producing Montrose, Arbroath and Arkwright fields, a 10% ...

ON THE MONEY
EDITORS COMMENT
HEADLINES
COMPANIES IN THIS ISSUE
Companies in This Issue

3Tec Energy Corp. 84 A&D Conference 78 A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. 80, 83 A.R. Temple 64 Acclaim Energy Trust 87 Alexander Energy 83 Alexi Holdings Ltd. 43 Alliant Energy Corp. 80 Amerada Hess 55 American Real Estate ...



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