Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - June 2006 June 1, 2006 Feature CBM Review Nissa Darbonne Egypt Peggy Williams He Rocked the Rockies Brian A. Toal Managing Market Risk Brian A. Toal Midstream Growth Bertie Taylor Predicting the Sale Price Charles M. Lapeyre and Benjamin H. Davis Headlines Anadarko To Acquire Kerr-McGee and Western Gas For $21.1 Billion Apache Acquires BP GOM Assets Canada Southern Accepts Canadian Oil Sands Bid Canadian Oil Sands Ups Bid For Canada Southern Canadian Superior Has Outbid Petro-Canada's Offer Chesapeake Plans $845 Million Barnett Shale Acquisition Devon Acquires Chief's Barnett Shale Properties Endeavour Names Thomas Clark To Its Board Energy Partners Revises Offer For Stone Esprit To Aquire Trifecta Expro International Group Plans To Acquire Power Well Services Focus Energy Acquires Profico Properties For C$1 Billion Jana Asks THX To Move Forward On Its Offer Jana Bids $62/Share For THX Jana Partners Requests Houston Exploration Records Merit Acquires Houston Exploration's Offshore Louisiana Assets Mitsui Acquires GOM Leasehold From Pogo PEC Minerals To Acquire Sempra E&P Subsidiary Petro-Canada Raises Bid For Canada Southern Range Completes Purchase Of Stroud Energy Savanna Energy Services And Western Lakota Plan To Merge Saxon Plans Kinnell Asset Acquisition Shell Subsidiary To Acquire Two Barges From Parker Drilling Stone Accepts Energy Partners' Offer Talisman Sells Non-Strategic Canadian Assets Tenaris To Acquire Maverick Tube For US$3.2 Billion True Energy Merges With Shellbridge XTO Plans To Purchase Peak Energy For $105 Million Companies in This Issue Company Index Company Briefs Additional news Apache taking BP's Gulf Shelf assets for $1.3B A&D Watch Devon Energy to take Chief out of Barnett for $2.2B A&D Watch M&A News Petrohawk-KCS combination doubles company's EV A&D Watch Plains E&P to buy Stone for $1.9B A&D Watch Pogo splits Gulf interests with Mitsui A&D Watch Schlumberger buys out BHI stake in WesternGeco A&D Watch Completions Pushing $4 Nissa Darbonne, Executive Editor E&P Momentum Trends in Canadian Gas Peggy Williams Editors Comment A Messy Stew Leslie Haines AAPG-Convention Speakers Debate World Oil Supply, Conservation Leslie Haines Bolivian Hydrocarbon Nationalization Affects Repsol-YPF Reserves Bertie Taylor Canadian M&A: Producers Will Have To Pay To Play Taryn Maxwell CBM Review Nissa Darbonne Howard Weil: Finding Costs Continued To Soar In 2005 Leslie Haines Managing Market Risk Brian A. Toal MLPs Still Pushing For Lower Risks, Higher Returns In 2006 Leslie Haines Positive Sentiment Pervasive For Energy Stocks Brian A. Toal Profits Perspective Brian A. Toal Pushing $4 Nissa Darbonne Shell Turns Increased Attention To Onshore U.S. Unconventional Potential Leslie Haines Simmons: $6.60 Gas Required To Sustain Unconventional Plays Leslie Haines Trends In Canadian Gas Peggy Williams 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 A Messy Stew Leslie Haines New Financings Equity/Debt Table Other NewsWell AAPG-convention speakers debate world oil supply, conservation Leslie Haines Bolivian hydrocarbon nationalization affects Repsol-YPF reserves Bertie Taylor Breaux et al. call for Gulf revenues to coastal states Oil and Gas Investor This Week Canada, UAE, India among low-risk venues for E&P abroad Peggy Williams Canadian M&A: Producers will have to pay to play Taryn Maxwell Global oil demand risk for 2006 surfaces with IEA report Brian A. Toal Howard Weil: Finding costs continued to soar in 2005 Leslie Haines Independent securities dealers take larger Canadian market share Taryn Maxwell MLPs still pushing for lower risks, higher returns in 2006 Leslie Haines Pemex deepwater discovery may be fewer barrels Oil and Gas Investor This Week Positive sentiment pervasive for energy stocks Brian A. Toal Shell turns attention to onshore U.S. unconventional potential Leslie Haines Simmons: $6.60 gas required to sustain unconventional plays Leslie Haines On the Money Profits Perspective Brian Toal Trends & Analysis Tristone Capital's Energy Lender Price Survey Bertie Taylor