The eastern Denver-Julesburg Basin is classic prairie country. The high rolling plains of eastern Colorado, southwestern Nebraska and northwestern Kansas ...

When Salt Lake City-based Questar Market Resources, a subsidiary of Questar Corp., drilled its first well in Wyoming's Pinedale Anticline ...

SPACs, or special-purpose acquisition companies, are making a comeback in the energy space. For years, many investment bankers wouldn't underwrite ...

It's not for lack of trying. Today, the vast majority of rigs working in North America are drilling for gas. ...

In the most active transactional year ever seen in a single region, the Gulf of Mexico M&A deal flow totaled ...

There is a saying in the service sector: "The services we offer are good, inexpensive and fast-pick any two." Sale ...

Starting last fall, it became clear even to casual industry observers that large oil and gas inventory overhangs weren't going ...

It's March. Let's hope the month goes out like a lamb, because the winter has been too hot and too ...

oftening commodity prices expose oil and gas producers to new enterprise values-and debt profiles. An onshore gas producer 60% weighted ...

Headlines tell us rapidly growing Chinese crude oil demand has been driving up world oil prices. But for the first ...

Dominion Black Warrior Basin Inc. has made a remote new-field discovery in northern St. Clair County, Alabama. The find is ...

Cantarell Field, in the Bay of Campeche in the southern Gulf of Mexico, supplied nearly 60% of Mexico's average daily ...

1 ConocoPhillips, Houston, plans a remote wildcat on the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The #1 Noatak will be drilled in Section ...

1 McCoy Petroleum Corp., Wichita, Kan., plans a remote wildcat to evaluate Lansing-Kansas City members of the Mississippian to 4,800 ...

1 Moon-Hines-Tigrett Operating Co., Ridgeland, Miss., tapped southeastern Pontotoc County, Miss., for a Mississippian Lewis sand producer with an initial ...

1 Harding Co., Dallas, plans to drill a horizontal well to reach Barnett shale within Dallas city limits in Section ...

Equity CompanyExchange / SymbolHeadquartersAmountComments Teekay Offshore Partners LPNYSE: TOONassau, BahamasUS$169.1 millionClosed its IPO of 8.1 million units at ...

Michael E. Little, chairman of Pioneer Drilling Co., San Antonio, (Amex: PDC) passed away Jan 13. He was 51. ...

• Sterling Energy Plc, London, (London: SEY) plans to acquire Whittier Energy Corp., Houston, (Nasdaq: WHIT) for US$11 per share ...

• Quintana Energy Partners LP, Houston, a private-equity fund formed to invest in oil and gas, coal and power, has ...

Tristone Energy Services Inc., Calgary and Denver, previously Petroleum Place Energy Services Inc., has restructured its business so that its ...

Tenaris SA, Luxembourg, (NYSE: TS) plans to acquire Hydril Co., Houston, (Nasdaq: HYDL) for $97 per share in a deal ...

Exco Resources Inc., Dallas, (NYSE: XCO) plans to acquire producing properties and other assets in multiple fields in the Midcontinent, ...

Apache Corp., Houston, (NYSE, Nasdaq: APA) plans to acquire a controlling interest in assets in the Permian Basin from Anadarko ...

Encore Acquisition Co., Fort Worth, Texas, (NYSE: EAC) plans to acquire oil and gas properties in the Williston Basin in ...

At the recent NAPE Expo gathering in Houston, industry participants displayed tempered expectations about near-term commodity prices. However, most E&P ...

Energy lenders may believe oil and gas prices have passed their peak, according to a survey of 44 of these ...

The costs of major oil and gas production projects have risen by more than 53% in the past two years ...

There is a saying in the service sector: "The services we offer are good, inexpensive and fast-pick any two." Sale ...

The eastern Denver-Julesburg Basin is classic prairie country. The high rolling plains of eastern Colorado, southwestern Nebraska and northwestern Kansas ...

Several capital providers at this year's NAPE Expo in Houston were enthusiastic about prospective deal flow during the months to ...

Softening commodity prices expose oil and gas producers to new enterprise values-and debt profiles. An onshore gas producer 60% weighted ...

As an estimated 15,000 people filed down the aisles at this year's NAPE Expo in Houston, the industry's excitement was ...

Starting last fall, it became clear even to casual industry observers that large oil and gas inventory overhangs weren't going ...

Despite the many foreseeable challenges in the future of the oil and gas industry, there is much cause for optimism, ...

At the recent NAPE Expo gathering in Houston, industry participants displayed tempered expectations about near-term commodity prices. However, most E&P ...

Though there is still talk of retreating commodity prices on the horizon, many smart management teams have built that possibility ...

Managing finding and development costs and field operating costs is going to be more important than ever for North American ...

It's not for lack of trying. Today, the vast majority of rigs working in North America are drilling for gas. ...

In the most active transactional year ever seen in a single region, the Gulf of Mexico M&A deal flow totaled ...

Canada is poised to become a hotbed of M&A activity in 2007 thanks to the upcoming demise of tax breaks ...

SPACs, or special-purpose acquisition companies, are making a comeback in the energy space. For years, many investment bankers wouldn't underwrite ...

Dominion Black Warrior Basin Inc. has made a remote new-field discovery in northern St. Clair County, Alabama. The find is ...

While many global oil executives preach optimism to investors and the general public, Issam A.R. Al-Chalabi, the former Iraqi oil ...

It's March. Let's hope the month goes out like a lamb, because the winter has been too hot and too ...

Last year, explorers hit it big in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Early estimates are that some 1.5 billion barrels ...

Exco Resources Inc., Dallas, (NYSE: XCO) has closed the acquisition of producing properties, acreage and other assets in the Vernon ...

EV Energy Partners LP, Houston, (Nasdaq: EVEP) has closed its acquisition of properties in the Monroe Field of northern Louisiana ...

Apache Corp., Houston, (NYSE, Nasdaq: APA) has closed its acquisition of a controlling interest in assets in the Permian Basin ...

United States Steel Corp. (U.S. Steel), Pittsburgh, (NYSE: X) plans to acquire Lone Star Technologies Inc., Dallas, (NYSE: LSS) for ...

Warren Resources Inc., New York, (Nasdaq: WRES) plans to acquire oil and gas properties and related assets of five drilling ...

James A. Watt has resigned as chief executive and chairman of Maverick Oil and Gas Inc., Dallas (OTCBB: MVOG). Stephen Cohen ...

Rider Resources Ltd., Calgary, (Toronto: RRZ) plans to acquire certain interests in west-central Alberta from an undisclosed seller for C$208 ...

Enerplus Resources Fund, Calgary, (NYSE: ERF; Toronto: ERF-UN) plans to acquire a 90% interest in the privately held Kirby Oil ...

Venoco Inc., Denver, (NYSE: VQ) plans to acquire assets in California and Texas in two deals from undisclosed sellers for ...

General Electric Co., Fairfield, Conn., (NYSE: GE) has closed its acquisition of Houston-based VetcoGray from Candover Investments Plc, Huddersfield, U.K., ...

Goodrich Petroleum Corp., Houston, (NYSE: GDP) has closed the sale of substantially all of its South Louisiana assets to an ...

Legacy Reserves LP, Midland, Texas, (Nasdaq: LGCY) plans to acquire certain producing properties in Oklahoma from Nielson & Associates Inc., ...

Berry Petroleum Co., Bakersfield, Calif., (NYSE: BRY) plans to sell its noncore West Montalvo assets near Ventura, Calif., to an ...

Hercules Offshore Inc., Houston, (Nasdaq: HERO) plans to acquire Todco, Houston, (NYSE: THE) for approximately $2.3 billion, with Todco shareholders ...

Basic Energy Services Inc., Midland, Texas, (NYSE: BAS) plans to acquire Midland-based Sledge Drilling Holding Corp. for approximately $51 million, ...

UAE.-based RAK Petroleum (Ras Al-Khaimah Petroleum Public Co. Ltd.) plans to acquire 50% of the exploration assets of Indago Petroleum ...

True Energy Trust, Calgary, (Toronto: TUI-UN) reports it has received an unsolicited reorganization proposal from privately owned hedge fund Lawrence ...

Daniel S. Loeb and Bradley L. Radoff of Third Point LLC will join the Pogo Producing Co., Houston, (NYSE: PPP) ...

Energy Partners Ltd., New Orleans, (NYSE: EPL) has concluded its strategic alternatives process without any definitive offers to buy the ...

Halliburton Co., Houston, (NYSE: HAL) plans to movie its corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai, U.A.E. Halliburton chairman, president and chief ...

Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Houston, (NYSE: APC) plans to sell a portion of its interest in the K2 unit in the ...

Constellation Energy Partners LLC, Baltimore, (NYSE: CEP) plans to acquire certain coalbed-methane properties from EnergyQuest Resources LP, a portfolio company ...

Encore Acquisition Co., Fort Worth, Texas, (NYSE: EAC) has closed the acquisition of oil and gas properties in the Big ...

Callon Petroleum Co., Natchez, Miss., (NYSE: CPE) plans to acquire an 80% working interest in the Entrada Field in the ...

CCS Income Trust, Calgary, (Toronto: CCR.UN) has closed the acquisition of Kilgore, Texas-based Mobley Oilfield Services and plans to acquire ...

EV Energy Partners LP, Houston, (Nasdaq: EVEP) plans to acquire properties in Monroe Field of northern Louisiana from an institutional ...

Basic Energy Services Inc., Midland, Texas, (NYSE: BAS) has closed its acquisition of Texas-based JetStar Consolidated Holdings Inc. for approximately ...

Omni Energy Services Corp., Carenco, La., (Nasdaq: OMNI) has closed its acquisition of privately owned Charles Holston Inc., Jennings, La., ...

Progress Energy Ltd., Calgary, (Toronto: PGE) plans to acquire certain Canadian assets from BG Group, Reading, U.K., (London: BG) for ...

Dune Energy Inc., Houston, (Amex: DNE) has canceled its plans to acquire the remaining 1,600 acres in assets in North ...

Maverick Oil and Gas Inc., Dallas, (OTCBB: MVOG) plans to sell its interest in Texas Barnett Shale properties to an ...

Queensland Gas Co. Ltd., Brisbane, Australia, (Australia: QGC) has rejected the bid by Los Angeles-based TCW Group, an asset management ...

Los Angeles-based TCW Group, an asset management unit of Paris-based investment and banking firm Société Générale, has made a bid ...

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