3Tec Energy Corp. 89 A.G. Edwards 26 Abraxas Petroleum 35,72, 91 Adair International Oil & Gas Inc. 75 AEC 10, 11 AEC Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. 83 Alberta Energy Co. 32, 83 Allegro Development 23 Altira Group LLC 51 Altura Energy 21 Amerada Hess Corp. 69, 74, 94 Amoco Production 28 Anadarko Petroleum Corp. 28, 46 Anderson Exploration Ltd. 40, 83, 86 Anschutz Exploration Corp. 72 Apache Corp. 45, 70 Aquila Energy Capital 16 Aquila Energy Capital 50 ARC Financial Corp. 38 Arco Alaska Inc. 73 Arco Long Beach Inc. 89 Ariba 62 Armstrong Operating Inc. 72 Atlantic Oil & Gas LLC 67 Atlantis Capital Group LLC 79 B&R Construction Inc. 66 Baker Atlas 27 Banc of America Securities 48, 63, 79 Bank One Texas 79 Bank One, First Union Nat'l. Bank 52 Bank United 18 Bargo Energy Co. 17, 86 Barrett Resources Corp. 72 Barrow-Shaver Resources Co. 68 Bear Stearns & Co. 9 Belco Oil & Gas Corp. 89 Berkley Petroleum Corp. 72 Blue Star Oil & Gas Ltd. 57, 94 BMO Nesbitt Burns Corp. 33, 79, 86 BP Amoco 32, 62, 75 BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. 73 Bracken Operating LLC 70 Breitburn Energy Co. LLC 52 Brown & Root Energy Services 91 Burlington Resources. 32, 75 Cairn Energy India Pty. Ltd. 75 Calahoo Petroleum Ltd. 86 Caltex 62 Camelot Oil & Gas LLC 56 Canadian 88 Energy Corp. 74, 89 Canadian Hunter Exploration 32, 40 Canadian Natural Resources 32, 38 Canadian Occidental Petroleum 89 Canadian Occidental Petroleum 40, 89 Canyon Offshore Inc. 51 Capstone Microturbine 43 Careers.com 88 Castle Energy Corp. 56 Chase Bank of Texas 79 Chase Securities Inc. 79, 91 Chesapeake Operating Inc. 70, 72 Chevron Corp. 58, 62, 75 Chieftain International Inc. 69 China National Petroleum Corp. 9 CIBC World Markets 30 Clifford Oil & Gas 52 CMS Energy Corp. 17, 86 COGA 95 Coherence Technology Co. 51 Columbia Natural Resources Inc. 66 Compton Petroleum 40 Connelly Exploration Inc. 70 Conoco 55 Consol Energy Inc. 17 Cooper Cameron 63 Coral Energy 62 Core Laboratories BV 51 Cornerstone Ventures LP 12 Cosco Capital Management LLC 48 Costilla Energy Inc. 46, 86 Courson Oil & Gas Inc. 70 Credit Lyonnais Inside back cover Credit Suisse First Boston 79 Cross Timbers Oil Co. 53 Cypress Energy 40 Dain Rauscher Wessels 47 Den Norsk Stats Oljeselskap 75 Destiny Resource Services Corp. 79 Deutsche Bank AG 62 Devon Energy Corp. 86 Devon Energy Corp. 28, 45 Dominion Appalachian Devel. Inc. 66 Dominion Resources 32 Downstream Energy 62 Dyas Nederland B.V. 74 E.N. Patton Oil Co. Inc. 71 Edge Energy 40 Edper Brascan Corp. 32 Elf Exploration Inc. 69 EnCap Investments 48, 52, 79, 91 EnerCom 90 Energen Resources Corp. 73 Energie Beheer Nederland B.V. 74 Energy Partners Ltd. 89 Energy Portal 13 Energy Spectrum Capital 54 EnergyPrism.com Inc. 96 ENersection 61 Enron Capital & Trade Resources 46 Enterprise Oil PLC 74 EOG Resources Corp. 28, 69, 71 Equitable Production Co. 67 Equitable Resources Inc. 17, 89 Esenjay Exploration Inc. 68 Evercore Capital Partners LP 89 Evergreen Resources 92 Ewing Halsell Foundation 94 Exco Resources Inc. 94 Exxon Azerbaijan Operating Co. LLC 96 Exxon E&P Caspian Sea Ltd. 96 Exxon Mobil Corp. 75, 96 First Energy Capital Corp. 94 First Reserve Corp. 35, 79 First Savings Bank 79 First Union 52 FirstEnergy Capital Corp 37, 86 Fletcher Challenge Ltd. 75 Forest Oil Corp. 69 Fosters Resources Ltd. 79 Frontier Exploration Inc. 66 FX Energy Inc. 74 Gas Authority of India Ltd. 75 GeoNet Energy Services 78 Goldman Sachs Group 62 Grey Wolf Inc. 79 Griffiths McBurney & Partners 40, 79, 86, 94 Gujarat State Petroleum Corp. Ltd. 75 Gulf Canada Resources Ltd. 74 Halliburton Co. 62, 79, 89 Halliburton Energy Services 91 Helmerich & Payne Inc. 71 Hilcorp Energy ILP 91 Hilden Oil Co. Inc. 66 Hillcrest Beverly Oil Corp. 94 Hindustan Oil Exploration Co. Ltd. 75 Horizon.com Ltd. 96 Houston Exploration Co. 79 Howard, Weil, Labouisse, Friedrichs Inc. 79 HS Resources Inc. 28 HSBC Bank USA 79 Hurricane Hydrocarbons Ltd. 21 Indian Oil Corp. 75 IndigoPool.com 64 InterOil Corp. 79 Ivanhoe Energy Inc. 72 J. Burns Brown Operating Co. 72 J.D. Edwards 96 Jamex Inc. 68 Johnson Rice & Co. LLC 79 Kaiser-Francis Oil Co. 70 Kayne Anderson Energy Fund LP 48 Kerr-McGee Corp. 28, 74, 89 Key Energy Services Inc. 91 Keyspan Energy Corp. 79 KS Tech 96 Landmark Graphics Corp. 91 Lariat Petroleum Inc. 50 Lehman Brothers Inc. 42 Lehman Brothers Inc. 79 Lincoln National Life Insurance 52 Local Inc. 67 Longbow Capital 21 Louis Dreyfus Gas Corp. 86 Madison Energy Advisors 17 Mallon Resources Corp. 74, 96 Manti Operating Co. 69 Marathon Oil Co. 35, 73, 89 Mariner Energy Inc. 69 Matador Operating Co. 70 Matrix Oil & Gas Inc. 79, 91 McDermott 51 McMoRan Exploration Co. 79, 89 McMurry Oil Co. 83 MCN Energy Group 17 MDU Resources Group Inc. 94 Melut Petroleum Co. Ltd. 79 Merrill Lynch & Co. 9 Mildco Inc. 66 Miller Exploration Co. 69 Miller Petroleum Inc. 67 Morgan Stanley Dean Witter 62 Nance Petroleum Corp. 72 National Fuel Gas Co. 86 National Oilwell 63 Natural Gas Partners 45, 46, 50 Natural Gas Partners 87 Nearburg Producing Co. 71 Network Oil Outside back cover New Cache Petroleum 35 Newcrest Capital Inc. 86 Newfield Exploration Co. 17, 28, 50 Newport Petroleum Corp. 32, 39 Niko Resources Ltd. 75 Norcen Energy Resources 35 Norsk Hydro 75 Northrock Resources 37, 83, 86 Novistar 80 Occidental Petroleum 21, 75, 77, 89 Ocean Energy Inc. 44 Ocean Energy Inc. 35, 68, 89 Oceaneering International Inc. 79 Odebrecht S.A. 74 Odessa Exploration Inc. 91 Oil & Natural Gas Corp. 75 Oil India Ltd. 75 Oildex.com 22 Overseas Private Investment Corp. 79 Oxy USA Inc. 71 Pacalta Resources 32 PaineWebber Inc. 83 Paradigm Geophysical 63 Paradigm Technologies 83 Paradigm Technologies Inc. 96 Parker & Parsley Petroleum Co. 45 Penn West Petroleum 32, 40 PennNet 2 Pennsylvania General Energy Corp. 66 Penwell Energy Inc. 73 Peters & Co. 38 Petrie Parkman & Co. 17, 79 Petro-Hunt LLC 68 Petrobank Energy & Resources Ltd. 83 Petrobras 74 Petrobras America Inc. 69 PetroChina Co. Ltd. 9 PetroCompanies 91 Petrocosm.com 62 Petroleum Geo-Services AS 52 Petrolsoft 62 Petrominerals Corp. 94 Petronas 75 Petrorep Resources 39 Phillips Petroleum Co. 21, 70 Pioneer Natural Resources Co. 28, 45, 68, 69, 79, 91 Poco Petroleums 32 Pogo Producing Co. 68 PPX Producing Property Exhange 84, 85 Preston, Reynolds & Co. Inc. 94 PricewaterhouseCoopers 58 Prize Energy Corp. 45, 91 Prize Energy Corp. 96 ProcureNet Inc. 96 Pure Resources, Inc. 24 PYR Energy Corp. 72 Questar Corp. 76 Quicksilver Resources Inc. 17, 86 Range Production Co. 71 Ranger Oil Ltd. 83 Raymond James & Associates Inc. 35 Raymond James & Associates 29 RBC Dominion Securities 32 Reliance India Ltd. 75 Reliance Industries Ltd. 75 Remington Energy 32 Reservoir Characterization Research and Consulting Inc. 51 Resources 39 Richard Spears & Associates 58 Rigel Energy. 32 Rio Alto Exploration 40 Roundtree & Associates Inc. 67, 69 Royal Dutch/Shell 62 S. Lavon Evans Jr. Operating Co.. 67 Saba National Oil Co. 75 Sage Energy Co. 71 Salomon Smith Barney 9 Samedan Oil & Gas Corp. 68 Samson Canada Ltd. 86 Samson Resources Co. 25 Samson Resources Co. 91 San Jacinto Securities 57 Sapient Energy Corp. 50 Schlumberger 63 Schlumberger Inside front cover Scotia Capital 36 Seagull Energy 35 Seneca Resources Corp. 86 SG Investment Banking 62 Shell 62 Shell Capital 12 Shell Exploration & Production Co. 91 Shell Western E&P Inc. 66 Smith International 61 Smith International/Wilson 63 Smith Production Co. 68 SolutionBank Inc. 96 Sonahess 75, 94 Sonatrach 74-75, 94 Southcoast Capital LLC 79 Southern Company 8 Southwestern Energy Co. 68 Spinnaker Exploration Co. 52 St. Mary Land & Exploration 18 St. Mary Operating Co. 68 Star Resources LLC 70 Startech Energy 40 Statoil Energy 17 Stephen Avenue Securities Inc. 79 Strain Consultants Inc. 56 Swift Energy Co. 14 Talisman Energy Inc. 32, 75, 77 Tarragon Oil & Gas 35 Team Energy LLC 66 Tenneco Inc. 50 Tepco Resources Inc. 67 Termo Co. 73 Terra Energy Ltd. 86 Texaco Inc. 17, 62, 63, 89 Texoil Inc. 52 The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. 79 The Exploration Co. 55, 94 The Exploration Company 17 The Fuji Bank Ltd. 79 The GHK Co. LLC 70 The Meridian Resource Corp. 68 The Oil & Gas Asset Clearinghouse 92 The Oil and Gas Conference 93 The University of Texas Permanent Investment Fund 50 THUMS 89 Tide West Oil Co. 45 Torch Energy Advisors 15 TotalFina Elf 62, 75 TransZap Inc. 51 Tri Link Resources Ltd. 86, 91 Triton Energy Ltd. 96 U.S. Bank 52 Ulster Petroleums Ltd. 40, 83, 86 Ultra Petroleum 79 Union Bank of California 79 Union Gas Operating Co. 68 Union Pacific Resources 35, 46, 68 United Heritage Corp. 79 Unocal Corp. 32, 75, 83 Unocal Canada Resources 86 Vanco Energy Co. 96 Ventus Energy 40 Veritas DGC Inc. 4,5 Vermilion Resources 40 Vista Energy Resources Inc. 45 Vitria Technology Inc. 96 Wainoco Oil 35 Walter Oil & Gas Corp. 69 Warburg Pincus & Co. 48, 50, 52 WBI Holdings Inc. 94 WellBid 19 WellBid Inc. 61, 96 Wells Fargo Bank 6 Wells Fargo Bank 52, 79 Wepco Energy Co. 66 Westech Energy Corp. 73 Western Geophysical 73 Westport Oil and Gas Co. 89 Williams Energy Co. 20 Winslow Resources Inc. 73 Yates Petroleum Corp. 71 Yemeni Oil Investment Co. 75 Ziff Energy Group 25