LNG Immunization

A weaker U.S. dollar is keeping the LNG away. Many commentators and analysts continue to hypothesize about the odds of increased U.S. imports of liquefied natural gas this year and ...more

Oil vs. Unconventional Gas

It seems to pay more to be an unconventional-gas player, according to research by Ben Dell, senior analyst for Bernstein Research. Dell analyzed 2008 stock-price performance through March 24 for ...more

With oil supply weak, global demand strong, is new norm $100?

Conventional wisdom has long suggested that speculators have been the culprits in driving global oil prices to stratospheric heights. But after crude prices hit an early April 2008 high of ...more

• Political risk in U.S. is now greatest risk to energy industry

• Smart acreage accumulation is key to play success

• All in F&D costs dropped dramatically in 2007 to $2.52/Mcfe

• Wall Street financial earthquake of staggering proportion

• Old is new again, as Texas is ‘the hottest thing’

• Technology driving costs down and recoverables up

• Everything is in play in quest to find unconventional plays

• Floyd, Marcellus, Ardmore Woodford getting attention

• Korell: Observation of incongruities led to Fayetteville success

• Chevron’s Paul: Every molecule counts as demand rises

• Executives expect the current cycle will last longer

• Operators must match right rig to the well

• Colombia welcomes U.S. as trade partner; seeks oil investors

• Well-service rig fundamentals, rating improving

Horizontal Stimulation

Pennsylvanian Cleveland. Cretaceous James Lime. Devonian Huron. These are three quite different formations—sands, carbonates and shales—in the Texas Panhandle, Ark-La-Tex and Appalachia, three widely separated U.S. provinces.What they have in ...more

International Highlights

?ExxonMobil Corp. is buying into Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd.’s tight-gas play in Hungary’s Mako Trough. The major will pay Falcon $25 million for a two-thirds interest in 75% of ...more

• Western U.S.

• Midcontinent & Permian Basin

• Gulf Coast

• Eastern U.S.

Contango may sell Dutch, Mary Rose

Contango Oil & Gas Co., Houston, (Amex: MCF) has acquired additional working interest in the Dutch and Mary Rose discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico from undisclosed sellers for a ...more

• Energy XXI, Plans join in Blackbeard

• CNX Gas’ share price unleashed

• TXCO, Third Point reach agreement

• Additional News

• M&A News

Gas Outlook Brightens

Several factors have recently converged, making the outlook for U.S. natural gas pricing more attractive heading into this summer. For one thing, during the final 70 days of this past ...more