Hart Energy Publishing
BP To Buy Devon’s Deepwater Gulf, Brazil & Azerbaijan Assets For $7B
Hayward: "This strategic opportunity…offers us significant additional long-term growth potential with an emphasis on high-margin oil.”

Denbury Finalizes Encore Merger In $4.5B Combination
Strategic acquisition makes EOR specialist one of nation’s largest oil-focused producers, expands core areas into Rockies.

Quest Companies Become PostRock Energy In Three-Way Merger
Lawler: “We believe the recombination will make our company more competitive.”

GeoResources, Resolute To Team Up For Bakken Development Project
GeoResources has acquired approximately 61,000 gross leasehold acres in Williams County, North Dakota and Resolute will acquire a 45% interest in the acreage.

EQT Corp. Adds 58,000 Pennsylvania Marcellus Acres For $280MM
The acreage is primarily in Cameron, Clearfield, Elk and Jefferson counties.

Petrohawk To Sell Oklahoma WEHLU For $155MM
As of year-end 2009, Petrohawk had estimated proved reserves of 23 billion cubic feet of gas equivalent.

Chesapeake To Acquire Powder River Oil Shale Prospects For $49MM
The acquisition includes all of American Oil & Gas’ ownership in the Fetter and Krejci projects.

ON THE MARKET DATABASE
Seller
Agent
State / Province
 
Premium Content
breaking news

BP To Buy Devon’s Deepwater Gulf, Brazil & Azerbaijan Assets For $7B

By Steve Toon - Editor A&D Watch
Hayward: "This strategic opportunity…offers us significant additional long-term growth potential with an emphasis on high-margin oil.”

CERA: M&A Market To Return “In A Big Way” Through 2010

Private-equity, financial markets, stable commodities and shale envy come together for renewed competition for both conventional and unconventional assets.

Winter Nape
Winter NAPE 2010 Video Interviews

Oil and Gas Investor and E&P editors interviewed more than 30 industry leaders at Winter NAPE 2010.

IHS Herold: Global Upstream M&A Increases 40% In 2010; First Increase In Two Years

Global upstream M&A transaction value increased 40% in 2009 to just less then $150 billion.

Michael Bodino - Analyst, Madison Williams
NAPE: Gas Prices Poised For Rebound In 2010

“We’re closer to equilibrium than at any time in the last 18 months,” says analyst Michael Bodino.

Using The JV To HBP

How Three E&Ps Gained Momentum In A Capital-Constrained Marketplace

Video: High-Grading To Gas--Exco's Doug Miller On Strategic Divestments & JVs

Exco Resources CEO Doug Miller talks on other companies’ interest in Exco’s unconventional-gas assets and on Exco's own work at expanding its Haynesville and Marcellus holdings.

McMahon: BHP’s E&P Unit, Maersk, Wintershall Good Candidates For Acquisition

Bernstein Research analyst Neil McMahon questions whether recent E&P joint-ventures and acquisition targets by integrated oil and gas producers might not have less upside for the buyers than the E&P targets.

"Atmospheric" Marcellus Acreage Prices

Pritchard's Deacon sees Marcellus values trending strongly upward across all regions of the large play.

XTO's End Game

As ExxonMobil validates the future of gas with the pending XTO mega-merger, can other shaley E&Ps expect super suitors to come knocking?

Oil Sellers Get Their Price

Oil is the asset of choice, and sellers are getting their price.

Shale Transactions To Rule 2010: Aydin
Is ExxonMobil's takeover of XTO the first of several corporate deals involving major shale players and international majors?
Ranking Unconventional Resource Values

Public trading metrics influence A&D markets and the prices buyers must pay to seal a deal, says Ward Polzin of Tudor Pickering Holt & Co.

Metrics Disparity

Despite capital market recovery and strong oil pricing, experts don't expect A&D activity to improve dramatically until gas prices catch up with oil.

Chesapeake’s McClendon: More Than One Way To Make A Profit

The company’s decision to sell portions of its asset base to generate $12.5B in capital and create drilling carries is a side business that is "working quite well."
M&A In Flux

Researchers at Deloitte see the volatility that has depressed M&A markets washing out the revival of normalcy in upstream deal making anytime soon.

Going Oil

Three of the largest M&A deals of the past couple of months have been for oil-weighted producers.

Asia-Pacific M&A Will Increase

Cross-border M&A activity by Asia-Pacific corporations will increase during the next few years, notably in the energy and commodities sectors, according to a new report by Fitch Ratings.

Regional Spotlight: Permian Basin

The Permian has been one of the most prolific petroleum regions in North America.

Global Oil And Gas M&A Increased In 3Q 2009
PLS Inc.’s and Derrick Petroleum Services’ October M&A report shows global M&A activity for 3Q 2009 totaled nearly $21B in 112 separate transactions.
VIDEO CENTER
EDITORS COMMENTARY
SPECIAL REPORT
  
HEADLINES
A&D DEALS DATABASE
Buyer
Seller
 
BLOGS
WHO'S WHO IN A&D
a
Terrell (Terry) Clark
President & CEO
White Marlin E
asd Search
Who's Who 
UPCOMING EVENTS