The royalty-relief incentives for new leases that the US Minerals Management Service has implemented for Gulf of Mexico deep drilling have successfully spurred exploration and...
Mexco Energy Corp., Midland, Tex., is focused on increasing profit margins by obtaining underdeveloped natural gas properties with low-cost, low-risk operations and long-lived...
XTO Energy Inc., Fort Worth, Tex., is an acquisition and development firm that decided in the late 1990s that its best chance for success was exploitation of natural gas properties...
Houston independent GulfWest Energy Inc.'s core areas of operations—in West Texas and on the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana—will be seedbeds for the company's future growth...
Pogo Producing Co. reached some company milestones during 2001—its 32nd year in business. The company last year produced 31,707 b/d of oil and 238 MMcfd of natural gas, both record...
The Independent Petroleum Association of America's plate is a full one of late, according to IPAA Chairman Diemer True. The association, under True's guidance, is watching keenly...
Houston-based Plains Resources Inc. plans a spin-off of its upstream subsidiary, Plains Exploration & Production Co., possibly in the first quarter of 2003.
Westport Resources Corp., Denver, engages in oil and natural gas exploitation, acquisition and exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, Rocky Mountains, West Texas, Gulf Coast, and ...
Aspen Exploration Corp., Denver, maintains low overhead costs and emphasizes natural gas in its exploration and development drilling, with a focus on the Sacramento Valley of ...
Basic Earth Science Systems Inc. has refocused its strategy towards exploration and development drilling and is emphasizing a joint venture in Saskatchewan, in the Williston basin...
GMX Resources Inc. will base its future growth on maintaining a focus on exploration and development of natural gas in its core areas of operation, according to Ken Kenworthy ...
North Coast Energy Inc. (NCE), Twinsburg, Ohio, began oil and gas operations in 1981, but Pres. and CEO Omer Yonel claims it had not turned a profit for its first 18 years?not...
Total oil stocks in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries fell in August, and world oil production increased in September, but the International Energy...
Despite the current dearth of pipe- line construction activity worldwide, coming years promise more work as nations and companies come to grips with new economic, social, and ...
With the US Congress presently embroiled in a debate over legislation that would become the nation's energy policy—all in the wake of the terrorist events that occurred more than...
Although Janeen Judah's Point of View article was interesting, I am puzzled at times by our industry's ability to overlook what I believe may be the only way through the personnel...
Dallas, has appointed Thomas W. Comstock as chief operating officer, and James R. Craig as chief financial officer. The company also has appointed Jeffrey A. Wolf as vice-president...
A large step toward new military action against Iraq provides the occasion for a reminder to major oil companies: Don't freeze retail prices of oil products.
The American Petroleum Institute (API), International Standards Organization (ISO), and Institute of Petroleum (IP) are taking steps to "harmonize" petroleum measurement standards...
Extensive production and pressure tests indicate that the first of two horizontal wells on Oriente Block 17 appears capable of producing oil at rates in excess of 10,000 b/d from...
An effort to streamline National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) regulation helps to clarify a basic question: Do environmental groups want to protect the environment or just...
