Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - November 2005 November 1, 2005 Feature LONDON-LISTED David Wagman PAPUA NEW GUINEA Leslie Haines SERVICE-SIDE IPOs Brian Toal THE GRANITE WASH Peggy Williams THE GULF OF MEXICO Leslie Haines UPSTREAM AGAINST THE TIDE Brian Toal UPSTREAM LEADERSHIP Taryn Maxwell Headlines ATP Acquires Shelf Properties Boots & Coots To Buy Hydraulic Workover Business From Oil States Burlington To Buy Savell Field Assets Canaccord Capital Buys Enermarket Solutions CCS Income Trust To Buy Waste Management Assets From Producers Oilfield Chesapeake And Gastar Close Transaction Chesapeake Closes Columbia Natural Resources Acquisition Delta To Buy Castle Energy Denbury To Buy Mississippi & Alabama Properties Energen To Buy Permian Basin Properties Energy Resource Technology Buys Interest In Tiger Discovery Exxel Energy Acquires Columbia River Basin Interests Fairfield Energy To Buy North Sea Interests Harvest & Viking To Merge Hercules Offshore Acquires Liftboat Fleet Houston Exploration To Sell GOM Assets Increased Purchase Price For Dune's Acquisition Of Voyager Properties Kerr-McGee Completes Exit From The North Sea Kerr-McGee Completes IPO For Chemical Business Kootenay To Buy Southeast Saskatchewan Assets MAB To Buy Utah Leases Mullen Group Makes Unsolicited Takeover Offer For Pe Ben Oilfield Noble Royalties Completes $91MM Acquisition Norsk Hydro To Buy EnCana's Stake In Chinook OXY Buys Permian Assets For $144MM Parallel Closes Permian Basin Acquisitions PLS Signs Partnership With Burks Oil & Gas Precision Completes Reorganization Into Trust Public Gas Partners Buys Some 115 Bcfe Of Reserves Samson Canada To Evaluate Strategic Alternatives Schlumberger Acquires Minority Share In Packers Plus Swift Closes Acquisition Of South Bearhead Creek Interests Texas American Resources Buys D-J Basin Properties Unit Closes Acquisition For $82MM Companies in This Issue Companies in This Issue Other Company Briefs Additional Briefs Other Bachmann: Storms took out all of September Nissa Darbonne Chesapeake to move into the Appalachian Bertie Taylor M&A News Other Oxy acquires California, foreign assets in Vintage Taryn Maxwell Spinnaker exiting to Norsk Hydro Bertie Taylor Completions Private Exits Nissa Darbonne E&P Momentum Western U.S. Oil Shale Peggy Williams Editors Comment Canadian Juniors Bertie Taylor Drilling Permit Rate Continues To Grow On Strong Price Outlook Brian A. Toal EIA: Gas-Finding Improves, But Not From New Fields Joe Fisher Elasticity Is Back Leslie Haines Energy Industry No. 2 In Litigation, Behind Healthcare Taryn Maxwell Herold Panelists Debate Peak Oil: Fact Or Fiction? Leslie Haines Leggette: U.S. Needs National Energy Ethic Peggy Williams London-Listed David Wagman Positioning For Profit Brian A. Toal Private Exits Nissa Darbonne Producers Make Gains As Costs Continue To Rise Bertie Taylor Redrilling The Monell Peggy Williams Rigging Up The U.S. Fleet Peggy Williams Saudi Arabia: Refining Capacity Key To U.S. Energy Supply Bertie Taylor Service-Side IPOs Brian A. Toal Exploration Highlights Eastern U.S. Other Gulf Coast Other International Highlights Peggy Williams Midcontinent and Permian Basin Other Western U.S. Other From the Editor-in-Chief Elasticity is Back Leslie Haines New Financings Equity/Debt Table Other NewsWell Canada's synthetic crude oil looking for markets Peggy Williams EIA: Gas-finding improves, but not from new fields Other Energy industry No. 2 in litigation, behind healthcare Taryn Maxwell EOG's Papa: LNG essential to U.S., but competition to be tough Bertie Taylor Herold panelists debate peak oil: Fact or fiction? Leslie Haines Higher commodity prices supporting higher F&D costs Other Leggette: U.S. needs national energy ethic Peggy Williams LNG to satisfy much of China's energy appetite Taryn Maxwell Producers make gains as costs continue to rise Bertie Taylor Provident exec doubts future of so many Canadian trusts Nissa Darbonne Saudi Arabia: Build refining capacity, end blame games Bertie Taylor On the Money Positioning for Profit Brian Toal Trends & Analysis Canadian Juniors Bertie Taylor
