This year, the Independent Petroleum Association of America marks its 75th anniversary. In Houston or Oklahoma City or Lafayette today, ...

In early September, 48 rigs were working in Texas Railroad Commission District 10, which comprises the 26 counties in the ...

Every aspect of oil and gas production today is challenged to improve performance of existing properties while lowering costs of ...

A few natural gas producers and utility executives still may admit-very privately-that they didn't see a need for more liquefied ...

Who wants U.S. assets these days? Everyone-even the sellers. E&P start-up veteran George Solich sold his Midcontinent-, San Juan- ...

This fall, we are at the tipping point on a number of important things, the U.S. and Afghan presidential elections ...

M. King Hubbert, the late and much-noted geologist, predicted in 1956 that U.S. oil reserves would peak in the 1970s ...

As analysts and investors have waited with baited breath to see what the future of commodity prices may hold, the ...

EOG Resources plans a salient expansion of the Barnett Shale play in North Texas. Several years ago, the Houston independent ...

1 Challenger Minerals Inc., Houston, plans to drill its #1 OCS-G-25044 in Mobile Block 988, offshore Alabama. It will drill ...

1 Leor Energy LP, Houston, received a permit for the #1 M.L. McCullough in James Farris Survey, A-148 in northeastern ...

1 Murfin Drilling Co. Inc., Wichita, Kan., scheduled a 4,700-ft. wildcat in Logan County in northwestern Kansas. The #1-14 Kuhlman-Voth ...

1 Vintage Petroleum Co. Inc., Tulsa, has staked the #1125 Pleito Ranch new-pool wildcat in Pleito Field in Kern County, ...

Petrobras led the bidding in Brazil's sixth hydrocarbon licensing round. The National Petroleum Agency received a record $216 million in ...

Equity Company Exchange / Symbol Headquarters Amount Comments Chesapeake Energy Corp. NYSE: CHK Oklahoma City US$295 million Sold 20 million common shares at US$14.75 each to finance the purchase ...

In another joint venture with Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc., Houston-based Apache Corp. will gain additional Gulf of Mexico shelf ...

Whiting Petroleum Corp., Denver, is adding 333.7 billion cu. ft. equivalent of proved reserves at an average acquisition cost of ...

Sources report Houston-based Pogo Producing Co. is the $83-million winning bidder of San Jose, Calif.-based Calpine Corp.'s San Juan Basin ...

• Natural Gas Partners, Irving, Texas, has funded Goldking Energy Holdings LP, Houston, with initial capitalization of more than $30 ...

In this issue's cover story on raising capital for emerging E&P companies, the point was made by one financial intermediary ...