Fairfield Energy Ltd., a newly formed U.K.-based E&P company, plans to acquire certain subsidiaries from Acorn Oil & Gas Ltd., including interests in the abandoned Maureen and Crawford fields in the central and northern North Sea. The Maureen partnership, with Apache Corp. (NYSE: APA) as operator, recently acquired new 3-D-seismic data over the field and plans a multi-well appraisal program for 2006.