3Tec Energy Corp. 80 A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. 75, 79 A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. 20 ABN-AMRO Bank 8 Adair International Oil &Gas Inc. 71, 83 Agip 70 Albrecht & Associates Inc. 13 Allegro Development 41 Amerada Hess 46 Anadarko Petroleum 31, 43, 64, 66, 81 Anthian Resource Corp. 83 Apache Corp. 18, 28, 43, 71 Applied Terravision 86 ARC Financial Corp. 75 Arco/Atlantic Richfield 69, 70, 80, 86 Argonauts Group Ltd. 81 Arlington Ventures Ltd. 83 Arthur Andersen 22, 79 Atlantic Methanol Capital Co. 76 Aydeco Energy 81 Baker Hughes 34, 45 Banc of America Securities LLC 79 Bank of Montreal 76 Bank of Oklahoma 85 Bank One 85 Barrett Resources Corp. 44, 66, 85 Basin Exploration Inc. 65, 68 Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. 75 Belden & Blake 45 Bellwether Exploration Co. 81 Berkley Petroleum Corp. 83 Berry Petroleum Co. 49 Beta Oil & Gas Inc. 81 BG International Ltd. 86 BG Plc 86 BHP Petroleum 86 BNP Petroleum Corp. 64 BP Amoco 18, 31, 40, 44, 65 70, 80, 81, 86 Braiden Resources Corp. 83 British-Borneo Petroleum Inc. 64 Brown & Root 55 Burlington Resources 31, 44, 67, 68, 69, 70, 80 Burnett Oil Co. Inc. 67 Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. 62, 68 Callon Petroleum Co. 64 Cambridge Energy Research Associates 26 Canadian 88 Energy Corp. 70 Cancoil Integrated Services Inc. 75 Caprock Pipe & Supply 69 Carrizo Oil & Gas Inc. 64 Carson Energy 64 Caspian Energy International Inc. 83 Cawley Gillespie 21 Centurion Energy International Inc. 86 Chase Securities Inc. 79 Chesapeake Energy 45 Chevron 24, 44, 53, 64, 70 Chieftain International Inc. 65, 75 CIBC Oppenheimer 15, 16, 17 CIBC World Markets 75, 79 Columbia Natural Resources Inc. 63 Comerica 77 Compass Bank 75 Comstock Resources 45 Conoco Inc. 24, 46, 71 Continental Resources Inc. 68 Contour Energy 45 Cornerstone Ventures LP 18 Corpfinance Advisory Services Inc. 76 Credifinance Securities Ltd. 75 Credit Lyonnais Inside back cover Credit Suisse First Boston 79, 86 Crescendo Resources LP 66, 80 Cross Timbers Oil Co. 43 Cross Timbers Oil Co. 2 Crystal Gas Storage Inc. 83 Cullen Ranch 78 Dailey International 45 Dain Rauscher Wessels 4, 5 Dain Rauscher Wessels 47, 75 Data Corp. 31 Daugherty Resources Inc. 83 Davis Petroleum Corp. 64 DDD Energy 75 Del Roca Energy Ltd. 75 Delta Petroleum Corp. 85 Denbury Resources Inc. 47 Devon Energy Corp. 28 Diamond Offshore 45 DNO Heather 86 Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette 76 Drucker Industries Inc. 86 Eagle Geophysical 43, 45 Eaton Vance Management 31 Edge Petroleum Corp. 64 El Paso Energy Corp. 83 Elf Aquitaine 46, 70 Elk Hills Inc. 53 EnerCom Inc. 56 Energy Associates Inc. 62 EnergyCareers.com 82 Energy Income Fund LP 83 Energynet.com 77 Enron Corp. 79 Enron North America Corp. 79 Ensco International 44 Environmental Energy Inc. 83 Equitable Production Co. 63 Equity Oil Co. 68 Ernst & Young 25 Evergreen Resources 36 Exxon Mobil Corp. 24, 31, 44, 70 First Energy Corp. 85 First Union Corp. 31 First Union National Bank 85 First Union Securities Inc. 75 First Union 10 FirstEnergy Capital Corp. 83 Fleet Boston Corp. 39 Floyd Oil Co. 80 Forest Oil Corp. 44, 68 Franklin Investments 21 Freedom Energy Inc. 66 GeoQuest 57 Global Marine 44 GMT Inc. 64 Golden E&P Corp. 83 Goldman, Sachs & Co. 79 Goldston Oil Corp. 63 Grant Geophysical 45 Grant Geophysical 25 Grey Wolf 45 Griffiths McBurney & Partners 85 Halliburton Co. 31 Halliburton Energy Services 55 Hallwood Energy Corp. 85 Hanifen, Imhoff Inc. 81 Helmerich & Payne Inc. 66 Howard, Weil, Labouisse, Friedrichs Inc. 80 Hughes Eastern Corp. 63 Huntford Resources Corp. 85 Hurricane Hydrocarbons 45 Indonesia Petroleum Ltd. 71 International Finance Corp. 70 Investment Management Co. 31 IPO.com 79 J.D. Gas Inc. 67 James Cleo Thompson 67 Jennings Capital Inc. 75, 85 John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance 33 Johnson Rice & Co. 50 Kaiser-Francis Oil Co. 85 KCS Energy 45 Ken-Tex Oil and Gas 85 Kerr McGee Corp. 65 Kerr-McGee Corp. 14 Kestrel Energy Inc. 68 Kufpec 71 LaMae Oil & Gas Corp. 68 Landmark Graphics 58 Landmark Graphics 27 Lario Oil & Gas Co. 83 Lasmo Plc 70, 86 LL&E 68 LLOG Exploration Co. 64 Loan Pricing Corp. 9 Local Inc. 63 Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas 16, 67, 85 Lukoil 86 Madison Energy Advisors Inc. 11, 83 Magnum Hunter Petroleum 45 Magnum Hunter Petroleum 75 Marathon Oil 24 Marathon Petroleum El Manzala Ltd. 86 Mariner Energy 65, 79 Matrix Energy LLC 81 Maverick Tube 9 Medallion Exploration 63 Mellon Bank 31 Metro Holding SA 70 Michael Petroleum 45 Middle Bay Oil Co./3Tec Energy 80 Midland Southwest Software Inc. 26 Miller Exploration Co. 65 Mitchell Energy & Development Corp. 79 Mitsui Oil Exploration Co. Ltd. 71 Mobil Corp. 31, 67 Moody's Investors Service 42 Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc. 75 Morgan Stanley Dean Witter 79 Moxie Petroleum Ltd. 85 Murphy Oil 64, 70 Nabors Drilling 44, 55 Nadel & Gussman 64 National Bank Financial Corp. 83 Natural Gas Partners 39 Nearburg Producing Co. 67 Nesbitt Burns Inc. 83 Neutrino Resources Inc. 83 Newfield Exploration 43 Noble Affiliates Inc. 76 Noble Drilling 44 Norsk Hydro ASA 70 Northern Offshore 45 Novistar 12 Nuevo Energy Co. 44, 47 Occidental Petroleum Corp. 52, 70, 80 Ocean Energy Inc. 44, 65 Octagon Capital Corp. 75 Oxy USA Inc. 66 PaineWebber Inc. 79 Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co. 53 PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd. 70, 81, 86 Paradigm Geophysical. 58 Paradigm Technologies 83 Parker Drilling 45 Partners In Exploration Inc. 71, 83 Patina Oil & Gas 45 Patterson Energy Inc. 76 Pennsylvania General Energy Corp. 62 Petrie Parkman & Co. 79, 80 Petrolera Argentina San Jorge 70 Petroleum Development Corp. 62 Petroleum Finance Co. Ltd. 14 Petroleum Helicopters Outside back cover PetroStar Energy 62 Petrovietnam 71 Petsec Energy 45 Peyto Exploration & Development Corp. 76 Phillips Petroleum Co. 24, 46, 66, 71 Pinnacle Resources Ltd. 81 Pioneer Natural Resources Co. 39, 43 Pioneer Oil Co. 62 Plains All American Inc. 50 Plains All American Pipeline LP 50, 79 Plains Resources Inc. 47, 79 Playa Minerals & Energy 21 Poco Petroleums Ltd. 80 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 79 Pride International 44 PrimeEnergy Corp. 85 Primero Operating Inc. 67 Prize Energy 39 ProMax Energy Inc. 76 Prudential Steel. 9 Puma Energy Inc. 83 PYR Energy Corp. 11 Queen Sand Resources 45 Questar Corp. 64, 81 Quicksilver Resources Inc. 75 R&B Falcon 44 R.L. Adkins Corp. 67 Raymond James & Associates 9 RBC Dominion 18 Red River Energy Inc. 81 Redstone Oil & Gas Co. 83 Remington Oil and Gas Corp. 65 Renaissance Energy Ltd. 81 Repsol-YPF 46, 70 Reuters Group Plc 9 Riata Energy Inc. 67 Richland Minerals 70 Richland Petroleum Corp. 85 Robertson Stephens 39 Roundtree & Associates Inc. 65 Royal Dutch/Shell 14, 18, 28, 44, 65, 71, 85, 86 RSE Partners-I LP 62 Salman Partners Inc. 83 Salomon Smith Barney 9 Samson Investment Co. 85 Samson Offshore Co. 85 San Jorge 70 Sanders Morris Mundy 79 Santa Catalina (Algeria) Ltd. 86 Santa Fe Snyder Corp. 43, 71 Sapient Energy Corp. 85 Schlumberger Ltd. 31 Schlumberger Inside front cover SCS Resources Ltd. 71 Sedco Forex 45 Seitel Inc. 75, 79 Shell 14, 18, 28, 44, 65, 71, 85, 86 Soho Resources Corp. 85 Source Energy 68 Southern Mineral Corp. 83 Southwest Bank-Texas 24 Southwestern Energy Co. 72 Spinnaker Exploration Co. 79 Square Mile Energy 64 St. Croix Operating Inc. 69 St. Mary Land & Exploration 85 St. Mary Operating Co. 66 Startech Energy 68 Statoil (Det Norske Oljeselskap) 65, 70, 86 Stone Energy 44 Swift Energy 6 Symmetry Resources Inc. 83 Tap Oil 71 Tappit Resources Ltd. 76 Tatum Petroleum 62 Temblor Petroleum Co. LLC 68, 83 Tesoro Petroleum Corp. 86 Texaco Inc. 24, 44, 57, 64, 71, 86 Texas Pacific Group 51 Texoil Inc. 75 The Boston Co. 31 The Oil & Gas Asset Clearinghouse Inc. 81 The Prospective Investment & Trading Co. Ltd. 85 Tipperary Corp. 81 Titan Exploration Inc. 22 Tom Brown Inc. 68 Torch Energy Advisers 23 Toreador Royalty Corp. 83 Tosco Corp. 80 TotalFina SA 14, 24, 70, 71 Transocean Sedco Forex 8 TransTexas Gas 45 Trend Exploration LLC 69 Trico Marine 45 Triton Energy 45 Turkish Petroleum 86 Union Bank of California 80 Union Pacific Resources 72 Unocal Corp. 71 Vintage Petroleum Inc. 44, 64, 76 Vision Energy Inc. 75, 79 Vista Resources 39 Volunteer Energy LLC 85 Wagner & Brown Ltd. 64 Weatherford International 45 Westfort Energy Ltd. 76 Whiting Petroleum Corp. 85 Williams Cos. Inc., The 85 Wiser Oil 45 Wyoming Resources Corp. 68 Yemen Hunt 71 Yorkton Securities Inc. 75 Young Oil Corp. 63 Younger Energy Co. 66