Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - March 2006

Feature

2005 Excellence Award Winners

By any measure, 2005 was a remarkable year for the upstream industry and its investors.

Leslie Haines

Alabama

Peggy Williams

Deep Utah

Peggy Williams

East Coast Buyside

Brian A. Toal

Independent U.S. Gas

Leslie Haines

Repeatable

Leslie Haines

The U.S. Asset Portfolio

William A. Marko

To Be or Not To Be

Leslie Haines

Upstream Lending

Bertie Taylor

Headlines

Amerada Hess To Change Its Name

Black Hills To Acquire Piceance Basin Assets

Bracken Moves To Randall & Dewey I-Banking

Compton Buys Out Callum Partner

Energy Spectrum Capital Invests $30MM In Forrest Drilling

Enterra Acquires Producing Assets In Oklahoma

ExxonMobil Subsidiaries Sign JV Agreement For Indonesian Block

Five States Energy To Divest Sand Hills, Texas, Properties

Lime Rock Invests In Rig Builder, IDM Equipment

Lukoil To Acquire Chaparral Resources

Noble Closes U.S. Exploration Acquisition

PHI To Redeem $200 Million Of Senior Notes

Pinnacle Group To Buy Maverick Energy

Pioneer Closes GOM Sale To Merubeni

Resilient Resources To Combine With Guardian Exploration

Sequoia Resources Formed

Shell E&P Establishes Oil-Sands Subsidiary

SignalEnergy Closes Initial Sale Of Alberta Properties

TCW To Acquire Membership Units Of CDX LLC

Tetra Technologies Buys Two Barges

The Houston Exploration Co. To Sell GOM Assets

Vermilion Energy Trust To Acquire Interest In Esso SAF

Wells Fargo Names New Head Of Energy Group

XTO Closes Acquisition Of Properties From Total

XTO Energy Raises $1 Billion In Debt Capital

Companies in This Issue

Company Index

Company Briefs

Additional News

Cal Dive expands in GOM, adding Remington

Taryn Maxwell

Noble Energy to bring in USE's D-J Basin assets

Bertie Taylor

W&T to take GOM assets of Kerr-McGee

Taryn Maxwell

Completions

Vitamin G

Nissa Darbonne, Executive Editor

E&P Momentum

Virginia's CBM Play

Peggy Williams

Editors Comment

Addicted

Leslie Haines

Deep Utah Potential

Peggy Williams

Repeatable Resourcefulness

Leslie Haines

Upstream Lending

Bertie Taylor

Vitamin G

Nissa Darbonne

Exploration Highlights

Eastern U.S.

Other

Gulf Coast

Other

International Highlights

Other

Midcontinent & Permian Basin

Other

Western U.S.

Other

From the Editor-in-Chief

Addicted

Leslie Haines

New Financings

Equity/Debt Table

Other

NewsWell

5-Year MMS plan includes drilling offshore Virginia

Oil and Gas Investor This Week

Al-Naimi: Long-term hydrocarbon viability requires market balance

Taryn Maxwell

CERA director: LNG faces a barrel of challenges

Taryn Maxwell

CNOOC's Chengyu: China doesn't aim to overturn 'world order'

Nissa Darbonne

Deverka: Successful buyers need acquisition action plan, focus

Nissa Darbonne

DOE deputy: Challenges facing energy industry are vast

Bertie Taylor

E&P executives should keep watch for meddling hedge-fund managers

A&D Watch

In the global energy market, is natural gas the new prize?

Bertie Taylor

LNG likely to be best placater of Mexico's growing gas demand

Nissa Darbonne

New billion-dollar E&P projects will need good management

Bertie Taylor

Outlook positive for Canadian trusts while oil, gas prices hold up

Brian A. Toal

Panelists discuss hedge funds' contribution to market volatility

Bertie Taylor

Petrie: Scenarios supporting energy-price volatility numerous

Nissa Darbonne

Shell chief: Fossil fuels will continue to deliver most of world's energy

Nissa Darbonne

Super-majors say the only shortage in energy is access

Taryn Maxwell

Western Canadian land prices nearly double in 2005

Peggy Williams

WoodMac: Plenty of gas remains in U.S. Rockies

Brian A. Toal

On the Money

Beating the Street

Brian Toal

Trends & Analysis

Energy IPOs

Bertie Taylor