Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - October 2005 October 1, 2005 Feature A Gas Opec Leslie Haines Double-Team Taryn Maxwell Framing Perceptions Other Growing Pains Other Learning Curve Other Money in the midstream Leslie Haines Pay for performance Other Private E&P Capital Brian A. Toal Redrilling Monell Peggy Williams Taming the Bear Other The LNG Rush Taryn Maxwell U.S. M&A Nissa Darbonne Headlines Amerada Hess To Buy Egypt Interest Aurado Completes Sale Of Medicine River Properties Baytex Energy Trust To Acquire SK Properties Berry Petroleum Acquires Additional Colorado Interests Cardinal Resources Acquires Rudis Drilling Co. Cardinal Resources To Acquire Ukraine-Based Rudis Drilling Chamaelo To Acquire Two Private Companies Chesapeake To Acquire Columbia Natural Resources For $2.2B CNPC International Completes Acquisition Of PetroKazakhstan Dallas Investment Group Buys Metrix Networks EnCana's CEO To Step Down Encore To Acquire Kerr-McGee Properties Enerplus Resources Completes Acquisition Of Sleeping Giant Halliburton To Acquire Easy Well Solutions Kerr-McGee Acquires Trinidad & Tobago Interests Kerr-McGee Completes Sale Of Four North Sea Fields Kerr-McGee Secures Sales Agreements For Divestiture Program Kootenay Energy Completes Acquisition Newfield Signs Joint Development Agreement With Exxon Northern Ute Indian Tribe Forms Ute Energy Occidental To Acquire Vintage For $3.8 Billion Parallel To Buy Texas Properties Phoenix Technology Income Fund Completes Purchase Of Drilling Assets Richards Completes Purchase Of Lacombe Acreage Santos Completes Acquisition Of Tipperary Sequoia Completes Acquisition Of Alberta Assets Sheer Energy Completes Business Combination Talisman To Buy Paladin Resources The Houston Exploration Co. To Buy South Texas Assets Total's Offer For Deer Creek Expires Transco Resources To Combine With CEP International Tuscany To Acquire Private Company Unit To Buy Properties For $82.4 Million Vermilion To Buy Glacier Energy Waveform Acquires Additional Saskatchewan Lands Whiting Closes North Ward Estes Field Acquisition Companies in This Issue Companies in This issue Other Company Briefs Additional News Other M&A news Other Mariner to double with Forest GOM assets Taryn Maxwell Completions Proven People Nissa Darbonne E&P Momentum Rigging Up Peggy Williams Editors Comment 29 Of 38 Leading Indies Report Higher Production In 2Q Bertie Taylor A Call To Action David Holt A Gas OPEC Leslie Haines Canadian M&A Prices Reaching Historic New Levels Taryn Maxwell Is This As Good As It Gets For The Service Sector? No Bertie Taylor Katrina Brought Disaster To Gulf Coast Energy Center Bertie Taylor Money In The Midstream Leslie Haines No Safe Harbor Leslie Haines Panelists: Corporate Deals Stunted While 'Everyone Seems Expensive' Nissa Darbonne Pay For Performance Dina Pyron Perception And Reality Brian A. Toal Private E&P Capital Brian A. Toal Proven People Nissa Darbonne Rand: U.S. Shale Oil Could Be Economical Future Energy Source Taryn Maxwell S&P: Robust Upstream Revenues Alone Don't Warrant Upgrades Bertie Taylor The LNG Rush Benjamin Schlesinger U.S. M&A Nissa Darbonne Exploration Highlights Eastern U.S. Other Gulf Coast Other Midcontinent & Permian Basin Other Western U.S. Other From the Editor-in-Chief No Safe Harbor Leslie Haines New Financings Equity NewsWell 29 of 38 leading indies report higher production in 2Q Bertie Taylor Canadian M&A prices reaching historic new levels Taryn Maxwell Corporate deals stunted while 'everyone seems expensive' Nissa Darbonne Drilling permit rate continues to grow on strong price outlook Brian Toal Forecast: Rockies tight-gas production will continue to climb Brian Toal Is this as good as it gets for the service sector? No. Bertie Taylor Katrina brought disaster to Gulf Coast energy center Bertie Taylor Rand: U.S. shale oil could be ecnomical future energy source Taryn Maxwell S&P: Robust upstream revenues alone don't warrant upgrades Bertie Taylor On the Money Perception and Reality Brian Toal Trends & Analysis A Call to action Other