When President Bush lifted many of the U.S. sanctions against Libya in April, he opened the country to investment by ...

His Highness Sheik Hamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, chairman of the Abu Dhabi Economic Forum, recently announced that the emirate, ...

Recent activity on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) suggests an increase in the number and value of upstream asset transactions. ...

China's economy has been racing upward like a skyrocket celebrating the emperor's birthday. Gross domestic product climbed 9.1% during 2003, ...

Despite years of victories declared over downsizing, portfolio optimization, and process and technology improvements, exploration and production companies still struggle ...

The famed Vicksburg Fault Zone fields stretch along a northeast trend from the Mexican border through Kleberg and Nueces counties, ...

Crude oil is an exasperating commodity. It's like broccoli or daily exercise-you don't really like it but you need it. ...

The 2003 slowdown in whole-company A&D activity is well over, as several large U.S. independents have already vanished this year. ...

Is the world awash in crude, or is supply tight enough to prop up high oil prices? During the past ...

While Jonah is a whale of a gas field, the neighboring Pinedale Anticline may be an even bigger catch. Indeed, ...

1 Shell Offshore Inc. permitted the farthest offshore well to date in the eastern Gulf of Mexico in Lloyd Block ...

1 Roosth Production Co., Tyler, Texas, is drilling ahead at its 6,000-ft. wildcat in the John V. Cherry Survey, A-171, ...

1 Three wildcats are scheduled for Graham County, Kan. Lario Oil & Gas Co., based in Wichita, Kan., is planning ...

1 Hamar Associates LLC, Ojai, Calif., has applied for a number of wells, including a wildcat in Sutter County in ...

Russian giant Lukoil is investing heavily in the Caspian Sea region. It recently took two new concessions in the central ...

Equity Company Exchange / Symbol Headquarters Amount Comments XTO Energy Inc. NYSE: XTO Fort Worth, Texas US$600 million Sold 24 million shares at US$25.23 each. Joint book-running managers were Lehman ...

Houston-based diversified energy company El Paso Corp. has unveiled its long-awaited revised strategic plan for its E&P business, emphasizing a ...

Calgary-based royalty trust Provident Energy Trust has acquired privately held Los Angeles-based producer BreitBurn Energy LLC for C$155 million ...

Small-cap Dune Energy Inc.‚ (OTC BB: DENG) has been busy lately. Formerly a quiet and little-known company, it has completed ...

• Randy Hill, Cory Richards and David Myers plan to form a new E&P company that has not yet been ...

• Houston-based Capital C Energy LLC, a Carlyle/Riverstone Global Energy and Power Fund II LP company, plans to buy Belden ...

Events are occurring in today's energy and financial markets that could very well return Denver to its former status as ...