Defining the best and worst of times for the energy business depends on where you stand. For exploration and production ...

With oil and gas prices high and interest rates low, more and more investors are discovering the value of buying ...

The energy investment-banking team at Hibernia Southcoast Capital in New Orleans recently analyzed the effect of return on capital employed ...

There's a red-hot horizontal drilling play in full steam in the Williston Basin, in the Bakken Shale. That's not a typo, ...

This special report was prepared by London-based Global Business Reports after meeting with some of the UAE industry's leaders and ...

Anticipating a growing demand for natural gas in the Middle East, the UAE and Qatar established Dolphin Energy Ltd. in ...

As the UAE's oil and gas production industry developed during the past 40 years, related industries have been benefactors. Locally ...

Among the most interesting developments that have shaped the United Arab Emirates' oil and gas industrial sector, the birth and ...

Competition for Canadian assets has become heated-some would say overheated but buyers are walking away pleased, despite paying historically high ...

Proved reserves. No single thing more affects an exploration and production company's value. But until oil or gas actually flows ...

The Gulf of Mexico shelf has been pronounced dead before, but then along came the application of 3-D seismic, combined ...

Henry Hub natural gas prices are likely to trade between $4 and $6 per million Btu (MMBtu) though 2006. That's ...

The deep-gas play in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico shelf is one of the most exciting of ...

1 Midland, Texas-based Clayton W. Williams Jr. plans a deep, remote wildcat in nonproducing Webster County, Miss. When the independent ...

1 Endeavor Energy Resources LP, Midland, is drilling a remote wildcat on the eastern flank of the Fort Worth Basin ...

1 Anadarko Petroleum Corp., based in The Woodlands, staked another wildcat in its series targeting pre-Permian horizons in southwestern Kansas' ...

1 Prime Natural Resources Inc., Houston, plans a wildcat to look for oil and gas in Kern County, Calif. The ...

U.K. independent Cairn Energy has hit a company-maker in northwestern India's Barmer Basin, onshore Rajasthan-the N-B-1, drilled on the 5,000-square-kilometer ...

Equity Company Exchange / Symbol Headquarters Amount Comments Oneok Inc. (NYSE: OKE) Tulsa, Okla. US$150 million Plans to privately place 6.9 million shares at US$21.74 each. CitiGroup Global Markets ...

Shares of El Paso Corp. (NYSE: EP) dropped 18% on news the company would slash its year-end 2003 proved reserve ...

Encore Acquisition Co., Fort Worth, (NYSE: EAC) plans to purchase privately held Plano, Texas-based Cortez Oil & Gas Inc. for ...

In many ways, 2003 was a break-out year for Austin-based Brigham Exploration Co. (Nasdaq: BEXP). It greatly reduced debt through ...

• Privately held Dallas-based Classic Reserves Ltd., which sold the assets and stock of Classic Petroleum Inc. earlier this year ...

• XTO Energy Inc., Fort Worth, (NYSE: XTO) plans to buy producing properties primarily in the Barnett Shale region of ...

• Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., Calgary, has acquired 100% interest in the Petrovera Resources partnership, which has heavy-oil properties in ...

• Vermilion Energy Trust, Calgary, (Toronto: VET.UN) plans to buy assets in The Netherlands for C$80.5 million producing 5,900 BOE ...

A new player has emerged in the energy capital-markets arena in the Mile High City-Meagher Dunn Capital. Its target clients: ...