New El Paso Corp. president and chief executive Doug Foshee's long-term plan to turn the embattled company around has won ...

Despite $30 oil and $4-plus gas throughout much of 2003, oil-service stocks didn't reflect this sustained boom. One could attribute ...

With at least 300 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves yet to be recovered in the Rockies, there's a tremendous ...

The Land of Lincoln would seem to be an ideal spot for coalbed-methane (CBM) development. A recent paper by the ...

Siberia is a million square miles of wilderness stretching across Asia from the Ural Mountains in the west to the ...

Five years ago, what was once Europe's leading oil and gas producer was in deep disarray. With alarming outlooks on ...

The U.K. is going through a historical phase as a hydrocarbon-producing country. After having relied on small entrepreneurs for the ...

From the outset, the U.K.'s oil and gas industry was able to build a large part of its development on ...

The U.K. has a long-established position as a world financial center. Just as the country's maritime and industrial traditions fuelled ...

Despite its seeming fiscal steadiness, the U.K. oil and gas tax regime has witnessed a number of changes throughout its ...

Operator interest was subdued in the Minerals Management Service's Sale 189 in the eastern Gulf of Mexico in December in ...

1 Armadillo Services Inc. of Alabama, Raymond, Ala., completed a discovery in the northwestern corner of Monroe County, Miss., for ...

1 Four Sevens Operating Co., Fort Worth, completed an Atoka discovery for 203,000 cu. ft. of gas a day in ...

1 Mica Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, received a permit for a wildcat in Section 20 of nonproducing township 2s-25w in ...

1 Apparently trying to get on the good side of California's new governor, Cimarex Energy Co., Denver, has named a ...

Offshore Mauritania ended 2003 with some excellent drilling results. Woodside Petroleum reports that its West Tiof C-4-7, a stepout to ...

Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. added another $510 million of purchases to its 2003 tally just before year-end, bringing its ...

ChevronTexaco plans to sell about 60% of its total U.S. properties, and may also sell some producing and midstream assets ...

• Myra A. Dria, president, and Keith A. Zimmerman, vice president, business development, have formed Ristra Energy LLC, Houston. Dria ...

• Privately held Petrohawk Energy LLC, Houston, and Beta Oil & Gas Inc., Tulsa, Okla., (Nasdaq: BETA) have agreed to ...

For those producers thinking of tapping the public equity markets this year, their timing couldn't be better. On the heels ...