Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - June 2007 June 1, 2007 Feature Encore Acquisition Explains Acquisitions, E&P MLP Spin-Out Interview by Taryn Maxwell Fayetteville, Woodford Shales Beckoning Producers With Huge Potential Brian A. Toal GULF RISK MANAGEMENT Mark R. Mozell New Brunswick Starts First Gas Production This Month Peggy Williams OCTG Merger-Mania Rolls Up Four Leading U.S. Makers Taryn Maxwell OVERCOMING THE LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS? Lloyd Byrne Some 23,000 Miles Of Pipelines Under Way Bruce Beaubouef The Carve-Out: What Makes A Good E&P MLP? Shannon Nome TRISTONE CAPITAL'S ENERGY LENDER PRICE SURVEY Headlines Arawak To Acquire Kazakhstan-Focused Producer Basic Acquires Service Assets Of Wildhorse And Eagle Frac Tank Cal Dive To Acquire Horizon Offshore Castex Closes Acquisition Of Louisiana Assets From Energy Partners Castex To Acquire Louisiana Assets From Energy Partners Celtic Acquires Alberta Assets CNX To Acquire 1 Million Acres Of Gas Rights From Peabody Compton To Acquire Stylus Comstock Acquires Assets In South Texas ConocoPhillips Leaves Venezuela Following Negotiation Breakdown Crow Creek Closes Midcontinent Acquisition From Encore Energy XXI Closes Acquisition Of Gulf Shelf Properties From Pogo ENI Closes Acquisition Of Congolese Assets From Maurel & Prom EV, EnerVest Close Anadarko/Texas Deal Forest Closes Acquisition Of Houston Exploration Gazprom To Acquire Siberian Assets From BP Hicks Holding Files IPO Loews And XTO To Buy Dominion E&P Operations McGill To Retire As SVP Of ExxonMobil McMoRan To Acquire Shallow Water Gulf Assets From Newfield Murphy Acquires Bear Ridge's Tupper Gas Interests Paramount And Baytex Close Acquisition Of Dominion's Canadian E&P Penn West Plans To Acquire C1 Energy Petrohawk Plans To Form MLP For Permian And Arkoma Assets Petrohawk To Sell Gulf Coast Division SandRidge Energy Files IPO St. Mary Acquires South Texas Assets Statoil Closes North American Oil Sands Acquisition Stylus Energy Sells Noncore Assets Team Closes Acquisition Of Aitec Tetra Plans MLP For Oilfield Service Subsidiary Venoco To Form MLP For Certain Assets Company Briefs Additional news In Memoriam Production Services Network marks first anniversary Leslie Haines Completions Future Value Nissa Darbonne, Executive Editor E&P Momentum Upstarts in Africa Peggy Williams, Senior Exploration Editor Editors Comment All-In F&D Costs Jeannie Stell Alternative-Energy Plans 'Somewhat Detached From Reality,' Says Petrie Jeannie Stell Drilling Activity Expected To Ramp Up in Second Half Brian A. Toal Drilling Activity Expected To Ramp Up In Second Half Brian A. Toal Energy Execs Say More Government Support Needed For Renewables Taryn Maxwell EVEP's Walker Lists Bad Reasons For Forming An MLP Jeannie Stell Fayetteville And Woodford Shales Brian A. Toal Horizontal Drilling In Unconventional Resources Can Double IRR Jeannie Stell Insurance Provider Launches Blowout-Prevention Business Leslie Haines Mulva: ConocoPhillips Out Of Venezuela; Into Russia, Canada Taryn Maxwell No Small Wonders Peggy Williams OGIS Attendees: MLPs, Resource Plays Are Intertwined Leslie Haines Project Suggests Shear Wave Best Seismic Mode Peggy Williams Quantum's Wolf Advises Good Relationships, Never Burning Bridges Leslie Haines Russian Oil, Gas Reserves Too Big To Ignore Stephen Payne Shale Mania Leslie Haines Tubular Demand Taryn Maxwell Upstarts In Africa Peggy Williams Upstream Spending Rising Brian A. Toal Exploration Highlights EASTERN U.S. GULF COAST INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS Peggy Williams MIDCONTINENT & PERMIAN BASIN WESTERN U.S. From the Editor-in-Chief Shale Mania Leslie Haines New Financings New Financings NewsWell Alternative-energy plans' somewhat detached from reality,' says Petrie Jeannie Stell Average geologist starting salary now more than $87,000 Oil and Gas Investor This Week Chesapeake to complete one well/day in Barnett; KWK at 704 proved Bcfe Leslie Haines and Nissa Darbonne Drilling activity expected to ramp up in second half Brian A. Toal Energy execs say more government support needed for renewables Taryn Maxwell EVEP's Walker lists bad reasons for forming an MLP Jeannie Stell Horizontal drilling in unconventional areas improves economics Jeannie Stell Insurance provider launches blowout-prevention business Leslie Haines MMS proposes more offshore drilling, including in Atlantic Oil and Gas Investor This Week Mulva: ConocoPhillips out of Venezuela; into Russia, Canada Taryn Maxwell OGIS attendees: MLPs, resource plays are intertwined Leslie Haines Quantum's Wolf advises good relations, never burning bridges Leslie Haines Shear waves useful in Piceance reservoirs Peggy Williams T. Boone Pickens: Biggest oil investment today is in oil sands Oil and Gas Investor This Week The Alberta Clipper, other pipelines to move oil-sands output Bruce Beaubouef On the Money Upstream Spending Rising Brian A. Toal, Senior Financial Editor Trends & Analysis All-In F&D Costs Jeannie Stell