Since the go-go 1990s, mounting problems with Wall Street stock recommendations-bias, conflicts of interest and fraud-have cast an increasingly negative ...

As the energy M&A market heats up in 2005, more independents and service companies are going to be looking for ...

Alaska's oil production peaked in 1988 at 2 million barrels per day. Then, in a span of just a ...

Every year by October 31, injection of natural gas into U.S. storage ends. This year, the amount of gas set ...

Many executives may dismiss private equity as simply "expensive" money while public equity is considered relatively "cheap." The logic seems ...

The fervor created by high oil and gas prices and, frankly, by overblown headlines about natural gas shortages and crude ...

Stone Energy Corp.'s new chief executive, David Welch, has a tough task ahead. The company, a long-time Wall Street darling ...

The global resource base for hydrocarbons is still healthy and will be aided by a growth in exploration investment that ...

The rousing success of the Barnett Shale play in North Texas has many companies looking for similar-style plays in their ...

1 Challenger Minerals Inc., Houston, completed its #1 OCS-G-25046 discovery well offshore Alabama on Mobile Block 988 for an undisclosed ...

1 Valence Operating Co., Kingwood, Texas, plans a wildcat to 13,500 ft. on a lease immediately southwest of the Noonday ...

1 Samuel Gary Jr. & Associates Inc., Denver, scheduled a wildcat in western Comanche County about 5.5 miles southwest of ...

1 Continuing to drill wildcats named after Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, Cimarex Energy Co., Denver, staked a location for its #1-32 ...

The deepwater common-interest zone (CIZ) between Angola and Congo has yielded a prolific discovery. ChevronTexaco reports that its Lianzi-1 exploration ...

Equity Company Exchange / Symbol Headquarters Amount Comments Brompton Equal Weight Oil & Gas Income Fund Toronto: OGF Toronto C$417 ...

Nexen Inc. (Toronto: NXY) plans to acquire EnCana Corp.'s (Toronto: ECA) British North Sea operations for US$2.1 billion. EnCana reports ...

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (Toronto, Amex: CNQ) and another producer plan to buy many of Anadarko Petroleum Corp.'s (NYSE: APC) ...

• Corpus Christi, Texas-based LMP Exploration Operating LLC has been formed with $35 million of equity capital from Greenhill Capital ...

• St. Mary Land & Exploration Co., Denver, has signed agreements to acquire, for cash, approximately $97.5 million of properties ...

In this month's cover story on the wide range of capital options currently available to the energy sector, the point ...