Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - April 2006 April 1, 2006 Feature BREAKING INTO THE BARNETT Nissa Darbonne OPPORTUNITIES IN INDIAN COUNTRY Nancy K. Appleby, Gregory G. Hawn, and Nancy A. Wodka PHOENIX RISING Bertie Taylor STARVING FOR ASSETS Taryn Maxwell STORAGE SPACE EXPANDING Brian A. Toal STRUCTURE FOR SUCCESS Brian A. Toal SUCCESS BREWS IN ANDREWS COUNTY Peggy Williams TO APPALACHIA Nissa Darbonne Headlines Addax Increases Its Participating Interest Offshore Nigeria Allis-Chalmers Acquires Rogers Oil Tools Services Apache To Acquire BP GOM Assets For US$1.3 Billion Avalon Acquires Working Interest In Texas Field From Canyon Creek ConocoPhillips Completes Burlington Acquisition Exco Resources Buys Interest In West Texas Fields Houston Exploration To Sell Some GOM Assets Irwin Energy Completes Big Cat Acquisition Jana Partners Pressures The Houston Exploration Co. Kinder Morgan Subsidiary Buys West Texas Properties Melrose Resources To Acquire Merlon Petroleum Mitsui Acquires 50% of GOM Leases From Pogo Petrohawk And KCS Energy To Merge Plains Exploration To Acquire Stone Energy For $1.46 Billion Pogo Producing Plans Latigo Petroleum Acquisition Resolute and Navajo Nation Acquire ExxonMobil Utah Interests Schlumberger Acquires Baker Hughes' Interests In WesternGeco Taghmen Acquires Petroleos Del Norte For US$32 Million Teton To Acquire Working Interest In North Dakota Assets Texhoma Energy Closes Louisiana Purchase From Kilrush WaveForm Buys Alberta Gas Properties Companies in This Issue Company Index Company Briefs Additional News Taryn Maxwell M&A News Marubeni, Merit, Mariner make Gulf acquisitions Taryn Maxwell Peoples expanding E&P; may divest power-generation Taryn Maxwell Completions Long-Lived Reserves Nissa Darbonne, Executive Editor E&P Momentum New Albany News Peggy Williams Editors Comment Breaking Into The Barnett Nissa Darbonne Offshore Dayrates Continue To Climb; SCORE Hits New High Bertie Taylor Some Trends To Watch Leslie Haines Starving For Assets Taryn Maxwell Structure For Success? Brian A. Toal Exploration Highlights Eastern U.S. Other Gulf Coast Other International Highlights Peggy Williams Midcontinent & Permian Basin Other Western U.S. Other From the Editor-in-Chief Some Trends to Watch Leslie Haines NewsWell Africa to contribute more global LNG, crude oil by 2010 Bertie Taylor Barton: Americans need to know of oil, gas challenges Bertie Taylor Canadian oil and gas opportunities taking center stage Leslie Haines EIA: Much new oil supply to come online through 2010 Don Lyle Financial engineering: A good idea with a bad reputation Taryn Maxwell Moratoria have 135 Tcf of offshore potential locked up Peggy Williams Most independents had increased production in fourth quarter Bertie Taylor Offshore dayrates continue to climb; SCORE hits new high Bertie Taylor Private equity plays role in new Watson gas-marketing venture Bertie Taylor Questar's Stanley offers up a U.S. energy policy Taryn Maxwell Repsol's write-down from Argentine assets affects stock outlook Bertie Taylor S&P: 2006 oil, gas industry fundamentals should be strong Oil and Gas Investor This Week Senate committee calls for expanded GOM 181 area Oil and Gas Investor This Week Service sector's results vastly improved from year earlier Bertie Taylor Small caps draw investor audience in Florida Leslie Haines Staffing, securing drilling services pressure independents Bertie Taylor Surplus of storage prompts lower gas-price forecasts Bertie Taylor Venture-capital investing grows; still short of 2001 Oil and Gas Investor This Week On the Money Beating the Street Brian Toal Trends & Analysis The end of Cantarell begins? Leslie Haines
