Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - June 2012

Cover Story

The Horizontal Cometh

From South Florida to the Permian Basin, private E&Ps and leaseholders await the transfer of shale-play horizontal technology to their conventional formations.

Feature

Best Financing: Kodiak's One-Two Punch

A creative financing strategy helped Kodiak Oil & Gas execute key acquisitions that transformed the company into a major Bakken player

Digging Into The Duvernay

Early well results have observers convinced the Duvernay could become the Canadian equivalent of the red-hot Eagle Ford shale.

Discovery of the Year: Developing Giant

Chesapeake Energy's prolific debut well in the Ohio Utica shale play enticed a who's who of influential operators to buy in, but can the industry sustain economic results? Bet on it.

Gulfport, New York

Utica-shale player Gulfport Energy Corp. captured the attentino of investors and analysts at OGIS New York this spring - and its Ohio leasehold is just one of its many opportunities.

XTO's Williams Looks Forward

President Jack Williams offers a long-term view of unconventional resource trends as the company's merger with ExxonMobil transforms it's resource base.

At Closing

Chesapeake's Spring

The proper, Oklahoma City way to address a media F5 tornado appears to be to provide the facts, stick to your business and let it evaporate—if only it will. At press time, Chesapeake Energy Corp. cofounder, chairman and chief executive Aubrey McClendon completed an investor call about a $3-billion, short-term loan the company had announced before the May 12-13 weekend. In just a couple of hours before trading closed on May 11, the stock price had fallen to $14.81 from a previous-day $16.39, as e-news writers misunderstood a 10Q filing...

Bright Spots

Capital Markets

Completions

Oil Demand Hangs In

E&P Momentum

Inclined Towards The Cline

From the Editor-in-Chief

Legends

Trends & Analysis

China Revs Up Shales