Popularity is surging for all sorts of oil-recovery projects, due to today's robust commodity prices. While much attention currently swirls ...

Some E&P veterans lament that the days of wildcatting are long gone. In the offices of Southwestern Energy Co., wildcatting ...

The oil and gas market is still red hot, and investors with varying levels of experience want in on the ...

E&P firms typically hold hedge positions to settlement. Few firms have a hedge policy that would allow them to do ...

Zapata County, the west flank of South Texas, produces more natural gas each year than any other Texas county. Its ...

The day I wrote this, the standard-bearers of the American oil industry strode into a Senate committee chamber to face ...

Several Gulf of Mexico operators may be visiting their insurance brokers in London in the coming months in meetings that ...

Attractive prospects at current oil and gas prices and a shortage of rig equipment are catapulting dayrates for offshore as ...

Devon Canada Corp., a unit of Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy Corp., will spud the first well in 15 years in ...

1 Denbury Onshore LLC, Plano, Texas, marked a discovery at its #1 Richards "35-2" wildcat on the northern flank of ...

1 A discovery rewarded drilling efforts by Barrow-Shaver Resources Co., Tyler, Texas, as it completed the #1 Shiels Unit in ...

1 Red Oak Energy Inc., Wichita, Kan., received a permit to drill a wildcat seven miles south and slightly west ...

1 The FEX LP subsidiary of Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, plans as many as eight exploratory wells in the northwestern ...

BP has made its ninth discovery on Angola's deepwater Block 31. The Hebe-1 was drilled in 2,008 meters of water ...

Equity Rosetta Resources Inc. NA Houston US$950 million Plans an initial public offering of 50 million common shares at an estimated US$19 per share. Southwestern ...

Petroleum Development Corp., Bridgeport, W.Va., (Nasdaq: PETD) reports that it will file amendments to its 2004 annual report and first-quarter ...

• The Northern Ute Indian Tribe has formed Fort Duchesne, Utah-based Ute Energy, with John Jurrius as chief executive and ...

• Chesapeake Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, (NYSE: CHK) plans to acquire 19.9% of the common shares of Houston-based Gastar Exploration ...

Believe it or not, OPEC isn't all that comfortable with $60 or $65 oil. That's the appraisal of Fadel Gheit, ...

The pressure to keep up with the U.S. appetite for oil is never-ending, but most E&P companies refuse to stop ...

"Our motto is to always overpay," says Aubrey McClendon, chairman and chief executive of Chesapeake Energy Corp., one of the ...

Some E&P veterans lament the days of wildcatting are long gone. In the offices of Southwestern Energy Co., wildcatting remains ...

The oil and gas market is still red hot, and investors with varying levels of experience want in on the ...

Zapata County, the very tip of South Texas, produces more natural gas each year than any other Texas county. Its ...

The day I wrote this, the standard-bearers of the American oil industry strode into a Senate committee chamber to face ...

Attractive prospects at current oil and gas prices and a shortage of rig equipment are catapulting dayrates for offshore as ...

Chemical-recovery processes have been around for decades, but have not been heavily used in North America. Of daily production of ...

Several Gulf of Mexico operators may be visiting their insurance brokers in London in the coming months in meetings that ...

Early this fall, the capital canyons of Wall Street were filled with myriad puddles, as eight straight days of rain ...

Devon Canada Corp., a unit of Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy Corp., will spud the first well in 15 years in ...

Believe it or not, OPEC isn't all that comfortable with $60 or $65 oil. That's the appraisal of Fadel Gheit, ...

What's to be done when there is little opportunity left for domestic greenfield exploration and production? For one, go back ...

E&P firms typically hold hedge positions to settlement. Few firms have a hedge policy that would allow them to do ...

Omni Energy Services Corp., Carencro, La., (Nasdaq: OMNI) plans to acquire Preheat Inc. for $16 million in cash, and the ...

After a 19-year absence, the Oasis Group partners, Amerada Hess Corp., (NYSE: AHC) ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) and Marathon Oil (NYSE ...

Paramount Energy Trust, Calgary, (Toronto: PMT.UN) plans to acquire a private Calgary-based company active in gas exploration and development in ...

Swift Energy Co.,Houston, (NYSE:SFY)has acquired additional interests in the South Bearhead Creek Field in Beauregard Parish, La., for $5.75 million. ...

KCS Energy Inc., Houston, (NYSE: KCS) has acquired an onshore Gulf Coast property from an undisclosed seller for $24.8 million. ...

Grove Energy Ltd., Vancouver, (Toronto Venture: GRV) plans to merge its U.K. E&P assets with those of privately held, U.K.-based ...

ARC Energy Trust, Calgary, (Toronto: ARX) has closed the purchase of shares in wholly owned subsidiary companies of Calgary-based Imperial ...

A joint venture of companies owned by India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd. (ONGC) and the China National Petroleum ...

Petrofund Energy Trust, Calgary, (Toronto: PTF.UN; Amex: PTF) has closed the acquisition of privately held, Canada-based Kaiser Energy Ltd. for ...

Producers Oilfield Services Inc., Calgary, (Toronto: POS) has closed the acquisition of privately held, Airdrie, Alberta-based Supply-Rite Rentals Ltd. for ...

Energen Resources Corp., the oil and gas acquisition and development subsidiary of Energen Corp., Birmingham, Ala., (NYSE: EGN) has closed ...

Norsk Hydro ASA, Oslo, Norway, (NYSE: NHY) has closed the acquisition of Houston-based, Gulf-focused Spinnaker Exploration Co. (NYSE: SKE) for ...

Deer Creek Energy Ltd., Calgary, (Toronto: DCE) has completed its amalgamation with 1202655 Alberta Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of ...

Newfield Exploration Co., Houston, (NYSE: NFX) has signed a production sharing contract for Block 17/08 in the Pearl River Mouth ...

Warren Resources of California Inc. and Warren E&P Inc., subsidiaries of Warren Resources Inc., New York, (Nasdaq: WRES) plan to ...

ConocoPhillips, Houston, (NYSE: COP) plans to acquire Houston-based Burlington Resources Inc. (NYSE: BR) in a transaction valued at $35.6 billion. ...

Houston-based Lime Rock has completed the final closing of Lime Rock Resources, a private equity fund with total capital commitments ...

Enterra Energy Trust, Calgary, (Nasdaq: EENC; Toronto: ENT.UN) plans to acquire producing wells, undeveloped land and an operating company with ...

Pyramid Petroleum Inc., Calgary, (Toronto Venture: PYR) has entered a letter of intent for its qualifying transaction as a capital ...

Vermilion Energy Trust, Calgary, (Toronto: VET.UN) has completed the acquisition of Glacier Energy Ltd. for C$6.25 per share and the ...

Crescent Point Energy Trust, Calgary, (Toronto: CPG.UN) plans to acquire approximately 5,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day of oil ...

Arc Energy Trust, Calgary, (Toronto: ARX) plans to purchase shares in wholly owned subsidiary companies of Calgary-based Imperial Oil Resources ...

IHS Inc., Englewood, Colo., (NYSE: IHS) has acquired the content and data services business of Dallas-based i2 Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: ...

NGP Energy Capital Management, Irving, Texas, has closed three new funds with aggregate capital of $1.7 billion. These funds include ...

EnergyQuest Resources LP, Houston, a portfolio company of Houston-based Quantum Energy Partners, and investment affiliates Kansas Processing EQR LLC and ...

Houston-based, privately held Hilcorp Energy Co. has closed on a transaction with Kerr-McGee Corp. (NYSE: KMG) to acquire various interests ...

Rowan Cos. Inc., Houston, (NYSE: RDC) plans to construct two jack-up rigs to add to its offshore fleet. The rigs will ...

Houston-based Cobalt International Energy LP has been launched with $500 million in financial backing from Carlyle/Riverstone and Goldman Sachs Capital ...

Employees of New Orleans-based Howard Weil Inc. have purchased the firm from Citigroup. Citigroup originally acquired Howard Weil when it ...

Producers Oilfield Services Inc., Calgary, (Toronto: POS) has closed the acquisitions of privately held, Nisku, Alberta-based Raydan Transport Ltd. and ...

Cano Petroleum, Fort Worth, Texas, (Amex: CFW) has closed the acquisition of Pampa, Texas-based WO Energy for $55.2 million, including ...

Ensign United States Drilling Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ensign Energy Services Inc., Calgary, (Toronto: ESI) has acquired Action ...

Westside Energy Corp., Houston, (Amex: WHT) plans to acquire 100% of the partnership interests and assume certain debt of EBS ...

Bonnett's Energy Services Trust, Grand Prairie, Alberta, (Toronto: BT.UN) has closed the acquisition of Fort St. John, British Columbia-based Hess ...

A.G. Edwards & Sons 52 Abercrombie Energy LLC 72 Aberforth Partners 90 Advantage Energy Trust 28 Aera Energy LLC 63 Albrecht & Associates 44 Amerada Hess Corp. 86 American Exploration Co. 45 Aminex 77 Anadarko Petroleum 92 Andes Petroleum Co. 42 Apache ...