Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - June 2009
Cover Story
Building Gas Demand
?U.S. natural gas supply is booming. Is the U.S. ready to put it to use?
Feature
2008 Excellence Award Winners
The Winners Are...
Asset Valuations: Yesterday And Tomorrow
?The lack of “comps” complicates asset valuation.
Challenging Convention
?Questar chairman, president and chief executive Keith Rattie discusses his company’s plans for 2009 and his views on proposed energy policies
No Safety In Numbers
?Amid a season of bankruptcies and restructurings, three bankers discuss energy finance and strategies for surviving to drill another day.
Plenty Of Gas In Storage
?Increasing shale production, higher LNG imports and gas-price volatility make gas storage facilities a growth business.
Remember The Fayetteville
?The sweetheart of investors just a few years ago, this shale play is now mostly quiet. But Wall Street wants to know: Is the Fayetteville mature?
The LNG Threat
?New global gas liquefaction and regasification capacity is coming online. How much will a flood of LNG heading for U.S. storage further depress natural gas prices?
At Closing
No Country For Low Credit Ratings
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The credit-quality decline for many producers is far from over.
Bright Spots
Capital Markets
Energy Lenders' Price Decks
? Energy-lenders’ second-quarter 2009 price decks take a fall.
Company Briefs
Completions
E&P Momentum
Alaska Tempts Explorers
?Alaska reworks its oil and gas production tax structure to tempt explorers.
Eastern
From the Editor-in-Chief
Rounding The Turn
?Calling the beginning of the upturn in the U.S. economy, or in oil and gas, is as difficult as calling last month’s dark-horse Derby winner.