Some people are born cynics; others come by their skepticism through years of enduring life's hard knocks. Other folks drift, ...

In September 1992, Mick Merelli found himself at the helm of a small E&P company, Key Production, that had just ...

Hedging is a risk-management tool designed to help producers maximize earnings and cash flow by allowing them to take advantage ...

Each spring and fall, birders from all over North America come to the Texas coast, drawn by The Great Texas ...

Within the past few years, the market has witnessed the meltdown of the tech bubble, the emergence of the energy ...

"High prices cure high prices," according to the economic maxim, but if 2004 is a reliable indication, $45 oil and ...

My, how the bulls are running through the oil patch, snorting and kicking up clouds of dust. The only thing ...

Enterra Energy Trust has followed Provident Energy Trust across the Canadian border into the U.S. to buy reserves and production-and, ...

Hedge-fund manager Carl Icahn and fellow money manager Barry Rosenstein plan to nominate themselves to the Kerr-McGee Corp. (NYSE: KMG) ...

Luca Technologies is a privately funded firm that is investigating the groundbreaking field of real-time biogenic production of methane. The ...

1 Murphy Exploration & Production Co., El Dorado, Ark., found gas pay with more than 70 ft. of true vertical ...

1 Blue Ridge Group Inc., Bowling Green, Ky., will drill the #1 Lake Palestine wildcat about two miles southwest of ...

1 Range Oil Co. Inc., Wichita, Kan., staked a wildcat to reach gas pays in the Mississippian. Projected to reach ...

1 Methane Energy Corp., Maple Valley, Wash., expanded its corehole program to evaluate coalbed methane in Coos County, Ore. The ...

Activity is brisk in Yemen, with a cadre of international operators enjoying success and new players entering the game. In ...

Equity Company Exchange / Symbol Headquarters Amount Comments IHS Inc. NYSE: IHS Denver up to US$350 million Filed an initial public offering plan. Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Citigroup ...

Calgary-based Enterra Energy Trust (Nasdaq: EENC; Toronto: ENT.UN) plans to buy Riverton, Wyo.-based Rocky Mountain Gas Inc. from U.S. Energy ...

Forest Oil Corp., Denver, (NYSE: FST) plans to buy a privately held, North Texas-focused company for an estimated $200 million ...

A storied name in the oil and gas business may soon go public. The owner of the world's largest well ...

• Escondido Resources LP, Houston, has been formed by William E. Deupree, Mark Semmelbeck, Kurt von Plonksi and J. David ...

• ChevronTexaco (NYSE: CVX) has its eye on Unocal (NYSE: UCL), according to the Wall Street Journal. Unocal shares rose ...

From the lows of January 5 this year to the highs of February 28, the stocks of major oils were ...

A.C. Nielson 117 A.G. Edwards & Sons 9, 26, 72 A.G. Edwards Capital Markets 93 A.W. Wilson 100 ABN Amro Bank 38 Acclaim Energy Trust 32 Addison Energy Inc. 18. 122 AIG Financial Products ...