Burned once, oil-service companies are playing chicken with producers: show us the money, then we'll show you more iron. This ...

Billions of dollars will be spent in southwestern Wyoming's Wamsutter area during the next several years to recover hundreds of ...

Operators have 18,500 miles of new gas, crude-oil and petroleum pipelines across North America under way or in review. North American ...

Private-equity funds are helping seasoned E&P management teams repeat earlier upstream successes under new banners. With billions of private-equity dollars pouring ...

The media has been full of reports that this year, the first of the huge and influential baby-boom generation turns ...

Tom Price, here it is. The senior vice president, investor and government relations, at Chesapeake Energy Corp. has (pleasantly) noted ...

ExxonMobil Corp. shareholders loved Lee Raymond, the chairman and chief executive who has his own encyclopedia entry and who has ...

The last days of 2005 brought an announcement from Chevron and its partners that a Gulf of Mexico wildcat they ...

1 Mariner Energy Inc., Houston, scheduled its first Rincon prospect test at the #1-OCS-G-26205 in 2,270 ft. of water in ...

1 Red Willow Production LLC, Houston, permitted the #1 Alligator Creek with plans to drill to 19,000 ft. The wildcat ...

1 Hays, Kan., independent Downing-Nelson Oil Co. completed a producer in the Arbuckle, one of two pays encountered with the ...

1 Alaska's Division of Oil & Gas has approved the Northeast Storms and Jacob's Ladder exploratory units on the North ...

Partners in a Sudanese block are preparing to step up exploration after a Comprehensive Peace Agreement is signed and the ...

Equity Company Exchange / Symbol Headquarters Amount Comments Exco Resources Inc. NYSE: XCO Dallas US$750 million Plans an IPO. Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.,Goldman, Sachs & Co. and J.P. Morgan ...

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

Petrohawk Energy Corp., Houston, (Nasdaq: HAWK) plans to acquire gas properties in the Elm Grove and Caspiana fields in North ...

• Privately held Canaan Resources LLC, Oklahoma City, a long-life-gas asset-acquisition company, has been formed with a $150-million commitment from ...

Talk to virtually any E&P or oil-service analyst these days and their message is essentially the same: look for 2006 ...

2005 marked the fourth straight year of good times for energy investors. While the U.S. budget for the current fiscal ...

The last days of 2005 brought an announcement from Chevron and its partners that a Gulf of Mexico wildcat they ...

ExxonMobil Corp. shareholders loved Lee Raymond, the chairman and chief executive who has his own encyclopedia entry and has run ...

The media has been full of reports that this year, the first of the huge and influential baby-boom generation turns ...

Tom Price, here it is. The senior vice president, investor and government relations, at Chesapeake Energy Corp. has (pleasantly) noted ...

Trends show U.S. gas production on a steady decline, despite a nearly all-out push by E&P companies in recent months ...

Last year was one of the most dramatic ever in the oil and gas industry. The repercussions of it will ...

Andes Petroleum Co., a joint venture of Chinese petroleum companies, has closed the acquisition of all of the oil and ...

Peoples Energy Production, the oil and gas production subsidiary of Peoples Energy, Chicago, (NYSE: PGL) has acquired oil and gas ...

Highpine Oil & Gas Ltd., Calgary, (Toronto: HPX) has closed the acquisition of White Fire Energy Ltd., Calgary (Toronto: WF). ...

Western Gas Resources Inc., Denver, (NYSE: WGR) plans to acquire coalbed-methane properties and related gathering assets in the Big George ...

Privately held, Gillette, Wyo.-based Kennedy Oil plans to sell its assets in Johnson, Sweetwater and Converse counties, Wyoming, in three ...

Paramount Energy Trust, Calgary, (Toronto: PMT.UN) has closed the acquisition of a private company active in gas exploration and development ...

Talisman Energy (UK) Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, (Toronto, NYSE: TLM) has entered into exclusive ...

Mullen Group Income Fund, Calgary, (Toronto: MTL.UN) plans to merge with Calgary-based Producers Oilfield Services Inc. (Toronto: POS). Through the ...

Forest Oil Corp., Denver, (NYSE: FST) has entered agreements with privately held Chalker Energy Partners and five undisclosed private entities ...

Stallion Oilfield Services, Houston, has acquired Elk City, Okla.-based Trail Blazer Hot Shot Inc. Trail Blazer is a provider of ...

Connacher Oil and Gas Ltd., Calgary, (Toronto: CLL) plans to acquire Luke Energy Ltd., Calgary, (Toronto: LKE) for C$2.31 in ...

Noble Energy Inc., Houston, (NYSE: NBL) plans to acquire privately held, Billings, Montana-based United States Exploration Inc. for $411 million. The ...

Houston-based BG Alaska E&P Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of BG Group Plc, has signed a participation agreement with Anadarko ...

Privately held, Pennsylvania-based Rex Energy reports that Rex Energy II Ltd. Partnership has closed the acquisition of several oil and ...

Privately held, Houston-based Northstar Interests Inc. plans to acquire substantially all of the Gulf of Mexico properties of Petrohawk Energy ...

XTO Energy Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, (NYSE: XTO) plans to acquire producing properties in East Texas and Mississippi from Total ...

Delta Petroleum Corp., Denver, (Nasdaq: DPTR) plans to acquire a 65% working interest in approximately 88,000 acres in the central ...

SignalEnergy Inc., Calgary, (Toronto: SGI) plans to sell 4.84 million barrels of oil equivalent of reserves, 70,952 acres (40,910 net) ...

Denbury Resources Inc., Dallas, (NYSE: DNR) has closed the acquisition of oil properties in Mississippi and Alabama for approximately $248 ...

Baker Hughes Inc., Houston, (NYSE: BHI) has acquired Broussard, La.-based Nova Technology Corp. for approximately $70 million in cash and ...

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

A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. 5, 80 Acon Investments 41 Aker Kvaerner MH 38 Albrecht & Associates 40 Alpine Inc. 12 Amberjack Pipeline Co. LLC 55 American Association of Petroleum Geologists 73, ...