These days it is not uncommon for savvy operators-and their financial backers-to form new E&P companies, grow them rapidly into ...

Gas has been produced from coal seams in Oklahoma as long ago as the 1930s. But today the Sooner State ...

From Alaminos Canyon through Walker Ridge stretches a trend that is the very frontier of the Gulf of Mexico. Here, ...

In 1985, Bob Simpson had been with Southland Royalty Co. for nearly a decade when it was bought in a ...

With the Oilfield Service Index (OSX) up 23% through most of first-quarter 2005, hardly any investor needs to be told ...

Here's a farcical example of some of the press releases that are arriving at our editors' desks daily from a ...

How does one turn a $12 asset minus three years of production into $13.64 or more? Ask any U.S. asset-seller ...

Finding and development costs for drilling alone, for drilling plus reserve revisions, and for acquisitions increased last year, furthering a ...

The seismic industry should soon enjoy a long growth period, according to Bob Peebler, president and chief executive officer of ...

1 Shell Exploration Inc., Houston, has scheduled as many as five deepwater wells on its DeSoto Canyon 268 Block in ...

1 Allied Energy Corp., Bowling Green, Va., has built the location for its Allied Oakwood #1A exploratory well in Leon ...

1 Stroud, Okla.-based Coleman Production LLC staked two wildcats in a remote, nonproducing area 1.5 miles southwest of Wamego, Kan., ...

1 Pioneer Oil & Gas Co., South Jordan, Utah, completed its #1 Yankee Mine West wildcat in Section 21-21n-57e in ...

U.S.-based companies did quite well in the first licensing round held by Libya in some 20 years. Occidental Petroleum, ChevronTexaco ...

Equity Company Exchange / Symbol Headquarters Amount Comments Grey Wolf Exploration Inc. Toronto: GWE San Antonio US$57 million Closed its initial public offering. The offering was led by CIBC ...

Petrohawk Energy Corp., Houston, (Nasdaq: HAWK) plans to acquire Mission Resources Corp., Houston, (Nasdaq: MSSN) for stock, $135 million in ...

The acquisitive Fort Worth-based XTO Energy Inc. (NYSE: XTO) has accelerated its acquisition efforts in the past three years because ...

Denver-based Cimarex Energy Co. (NYSE: XEC) is relatively inconspicuous, says Mick Merelli, president, chief executive officer and chairman. "We're moving ...

• Houston-based Quantum Energy Partners III LP and Chuck Perrin have formed Tulsa-based Rockford Energy Partners II LLC with a ...

• ChevronTexaco (NYSE: CVX) has made an offer valued at $18 billion to buy Unocal Corp., (NYSE: UCL) forming an ...

On the first Monday of April, a number of events converged in the energy arena: ChevronTexaco announced its $18-billion bid ...

A.G. Edwards & Sons 26, 61 Acon Investments LLC 85 Admiral Bay Resources Inc. 85 Admiral Bay Resources Inc. 39 Advantage Resources 86 Air Liquide 19 Air Products and Chemicals 19 Albrecht & Associates ...