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129k EnCana Agrees to Sell Gas Storage Business to Carlyle Group and Riverstone Holdings LLC 121k Vermilion Energy Trust Agrees to Acquire ExxonMobil's Interest in French Subsidiary for C$185MM 118k Energy XXI Acquires GOM and Gulf Coast Interests From Marlin Energy for $421.1MM 97k Alinta Launches Hostile Bid for Australian Gas Following Its Purchase of a 10% Stake in the Company 296k Oneok Inc. and Northern Border Partners LP Enter a Series of Transactions that Have a Combined Value of US$3.5 Billion 121k Noble Energy Agrees to Acquire Privately Held United States Exploration for $411MM: Expand D-J Basin Operations 122k TOTAL Agrees to Sell Gas Weighted Gulf Coast Properties to XTO Energy for US$300MM; Plans to Focus U.S. Activity on GOM 120k Berry Petroleum Announces $150MM Piceance Basin Acquisition, Continues to Diversify Outside of California Heavy Oil 122k W&T Offshore Agrees to Acquire Kerr-McGees GoM Shelf Portfolio for US$1.4 Billion 146k Cal Dive Agrees to Acquire GoM Producer Remington Oil & Gas in $1.4 Billion 97k Apache Agrees to Acquire Pioneers Operations in Argentina 120k Chesapeake Energy Announces US$796MM in Property Acquisitions 120k CNOOC Ltd. Agrees to Acquire 45% Stake in Pending Deepwater Nigeria Development 158k RAG AG Agrees to Buy E.ON AG's Stake in Degussa AG 156k Southern Union Co. to Acquire Sid Richardson Energy Service Co. and the Related Richardson Energy Marketing 130k Petrohawk Energy Announces North Louisiana Acquisitions Totaling $261.7MM 148k ConocoPhillips Agrees to Acquire Burlington Resources in Cash & Stock Deal Valued at US$36.5 Billion 120k Summary Results: Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Call for Bids 2005 137k Two Announced Acquisitions by Canadian Royalty Trusts Total US$621.7MM 129k Enregen Unit to Acquire Permian Basin Producing Properties for US$168MM 151k Inpex Corp. Agrees to Acquire Fellow Japanese-Based Producer Teikoku Oil in US$3.17 Billion Deal 167k Houston Exploration Agrees to Acquire South Texas Properties From Kerr-McGee For US$163MM 212k EnCana to Sell Its Natural Gas Liquids Business to Provident Energy Trust 153k Talisman Energy Agrees to Acquire UK E&P Paladin Resources in a Cash Deal 130k Kerr- McGee Agrees to Sell Selected Mid-Continent and Permian Property Packages 135k Occidental Petroleum Offers to Acquire Vintage Petroleum in Cash & Stock Deal 180k BP Plc Agrees to Sell Petrochemicals Business to Ineos Group Holdings Plc 129k Unit Corp. Acquires Gas-Weighted Mid-Continent Properties for US$82.4MM 143k Chesapeake Energy Enters Appalachia through Agreement to Acquire Gas Producer Colombia Natural Resources for US$2.2 Billion in Cash 143k Lukoil Makes Offer to Acquire Kazakhstan Producer Nelson Resources 131k E.On Agrees to Acquire North Sea Gas Producer Caledonia Oil & Gas for US$834MM 206k Norsk Hydro Agrees to Buy GoM Producer Spinnaker Exploration for US$65.50 per Share in Cash 182k Koc-Shell Group Makes Top Winning US$4.14 Billion Bid for 51% Stake in Turkish Refiner TUPRAS 152k EnCana Agrees to Sell Ecuador Interests to Chinese Consortium for US$1.42 Billion

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2005-09-07 2005-09-06 2005-09-02 2005-08-25 2005-08-25 2005-08-22 2005-08-19 2005-08-11 2005-08-08 2005-08-05 2005-08-05 2005-08-04 2005-08-03 2005-07-29 2005-07-21 2005-07-19 2005-07-14 2005-07-12 2005-07-11 2005-07-06 2005-07-06 2005-06-24 2005-06-22 2005-06-07 138k Total S.A. Increases Offer To Acquire Deer Creek Energy To C$31 Per Share in Cash to Match Competing Offer From An Undisclosed Bidder 126k Petro-Canada, UTS Energy to Farm-Out 15% Stake in Fort Hills Oil Sands Project 157k Woodside Makes First Reserve Purchase in US by Acquiring Gryphon Exploration for $296.9MM 164k Encore Acquisition Co. Acquires Mid-Continent Focused Gas-Weighted Reserves in Two Deals From Privately-Held Sellers 162k Plains All American Pipeline and Vulcan Capital to Acquire Natural Gas Storage Entity from Sempra Energy 145k CNPC Offers to Acquire PetroKazakhstan for Approximately US$4.18 Billion 234k Summary Results: MMS Western Gulf of Mexico Sale 196 120k Crosstex Energy to Acquire El Paso's Processing and Liquids Business in South Louisiana 135k Kerr-McGee Agrees to Sell its Entire North Sea Operations for US$3.5 Billion in Cash 152k CONSOL Energy Sells 18.5% Interest in CNX Gas Corp. Subsidiary in Private Placement Transaction 175k Kinder Morgan to Acquire All of the Outstanding Shares of Terasen Inc. 174k Dynegy to Sell Natural Gas Liquids Business to Targa Resources 161k Total S.A. Acquires Deer Creek Energy Ltd. 173k Whiting Petroleum Corp. Acquires Oil Assets From Privately Held Celero Energy 126k Chevron Increases Offer for Unocal to US$63.01/Share; Unocal Accepts Revised Structure of 40% Cash/60% Stock 140k El Paso Plans to Acquire Privately-Held Medicine Bow Energy Corp. for US$814MM 123k GE and Quebec's Caisse to Buy Southern Star 25k Santos Ltd. to Acquire Tipperary Corp. 27k Pogo Producing Agrees to Acquire Unocal's Western Canada Assets for US$1.8 Billion 19k Nexen Announces Plans to Sell Western Canada Assets for C$946MM (US$760MM) 162k Statoil Sells Its 50% Stake in Borealis A/S to IPIC and OMV 144k CNOOC Makes All Cash Offer of US$67.00/Share for Unocal, Trumping Chevron 171k Pogo Producing to Sell Gulf of Thailand Operations to PTTEP & Mitsui for US$820MM 154k Weatherford to Acquire Precision Drillings Energy Services and International Contract Drilling Divisions for US$2.28 Billion 161k Range Resources Agrees to Acquire Privately Held Plantation Petroleum Holdings II, LLC to Increase Permian Basin Producing Operations 131k Summary Results: MMS Alaska Beaufort Sea Lease Sale #195 238k Summary Results: MMS Gulf of Mexico Sales 194 & 197 155k EnCana to Sell Certain Oil-Weighted Alberta Assets to Starpoint Energy Trust for C$404MM (US$326MM) 176k Oneok Inc. to Acquire the NGL Businesses Owned by Koch Industries for US$1.35 Billion 169k Devon Energy Essentially Completes 2005 Property Divestiture Program Following Sale of Canadian Asset Package for US$1.1 Billion 150k Pioneer Announces Sale of Non-Strategic Canadian Properties to Ketch Resources Trust for $207MM 174k Ashland Signs Amended Agreement to Transfer 38% Interest in MAP to Marathon 145k Statoil Agrees to Acquire EnCanas Entire Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Portfolio for US$2 Billion 172k Valero Energy Corp. to Acquire Premcor Inc. in a Transaction Valued at US$7.6 Billion 187k Devon Energy Completes US Onshore and Offshore Property Divestiture Program 127k Pioneer Natural Resources Closes Third Volumetric Production Payment (VPP) Transaction of 2005 157k Chesapeake Energy Announces Agreements to Acquire Gas-Weighted Properties From Various Private Sellers for US$686MM 139k Comstock Resources & XTO Energy Separately Announce Gulf Coast Asset Acquisitions 154k ChevronTexaco to Acquire Unocal for $62/Share in 75% Stock, 25% Cash Deal

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2005-04-06 2005-03-22 157k Petrohawk Energy Has Agreed to Acquire Mission Resources in Stock/Cash Deal 19k SEACOR Holdings Inc. and Seabulk International, Inc. Sign Definitive Merger Agreement

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120k Crompton Corp. and Great Lakes Chemical Corp. to Merge to Create Third Largest U.S. Specialty Chemicals Company 27k Dominion Resources Announces $424.4MM Volumetric Production Payment Deal with UBS Investment Bank 80k Forest Oil Announces $230MM Acquisition of North Texas Buffalo Wallow Field 180k Whiting Petroleum to Acquire $65MM of Gas Properties in Wyoming's Green River Basin 120k The China/Rosneft Deal Is the Latest of Volumetric Production Payments (or Forward Sales) Transactions 168k Talisman to Acquire Petroleum Geo-Services Norwegian E&P Operations 89k El Paso Buys Texas Gulf Coast Gas-Weighted Reserves for $211MM 170k Dominion Announces Sale of British Columbia Assets & Downward Revision of Reserves 216k Pioneer Announces Sale of Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Reserves via Volumetric Production Payments 188k Cimarex Energy to Expand Core Areas and More Than Triple its Reserve Base through to Acquisition of Magnum Hunter Resources for $2.2 Billion 29k XTO Energy to Acquire Barnett Shale Properties via Takeover of Privately-Held Antero Resources 34k Russian Government Effectively Nationalizes Yuganskneftegaz Through State-Owned Rosneft Purchase of Winning Bidder of Yukos Main Production UnitBaikal Finance 158k Noble Energy to acquire Patina Oil & Gas in a $3.4 billion transaction 154k Bonavista Energy Trust to Acquire Natural Gas-Weighted British Columbia Assets for US$337.8MM 125k Overseas Shipholding Group To Acquire Stelmar Shipping in a Transaction Valued at Approximately US$1.3 Billion, Following Failed Bids by OMI and Fortress Investment 147k Berry Petroleum Acquires Natural Gas Assets in Colorado for $110MM 234k DONG to Acquire BPs Interest in Ormen Lange Development (Revised) 25k Fort Chicago to Acquire Alberta Ethane Gathering System from NOVA Chemicals and EnCana Corp. for US$226MM 141k Loews Corp. Agrees to Purchase Gulf South Pipeline LP from Entergy-Koch LP for US$1.136 Billion 124k Kinder Morgan Inc. Sells TransColorado Gas Transmission Co. to Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP for US$275MM 146k Range Resources to Add Appalachian Properties via $219MM Acquisition 25k Enbridge Inc. to Buy Shell Gas Transmission LLC for US$613MM 31k BHP Billiton Announces Agreement to Sell Interest in Deepwater Australia-Timor Sea Oil Development to Paladin Resources for $US150MM 160k Pogo Producing Announces $208MM Acquisition of West Texas Properties 178k Anadarko Substantially Completes Asset Divestiture Program Following $715 Million Sale of Phase 2 Canadian Properties 28k Anadarko Announces $107.6 Million Sale of Southeast Colorado Properties, Continuing Divestiture of Remaining Property Packages up for Sale 28k Nexen Announces $2.1 Billion Acquisition of EnCana's Operated Interests in the U.K. North Sea 26k Petrohawk Energy Corp. Transforms Size of Company with Acquisition of Privately-Held Wynn-Crosby Energy 37k ConocoPhillips To Acquire 10% Equity Interest in Russian Integrated LUKOIL for $2.6 Billion, with Allowance to Increase its Stake to 20% 121k Fortress to Acquire Stelmar Shipping Ltd. in a Transaction Valued at US$1.2 Billion 23k Total Takes 25% Stake in Russian Gas Producer 174k Anadarko Petroleum divests oil-weighted onshore U.S. assets for $850MM in cash plus property interests, making further progress in its $2.5 billion divestiture program 150k National Grid Transco plc to Sell U.K. Natural Gas Distribution Networks for US$10.6 Billion 129k Whiting Petroleum purchases $345MM in Oil-Weighted Permian Basin Properties from undisclosed private sellers 145k Anadarko Petroleum Divests All of its Gulf Of Mexico Shelf Properties for an Aggregate $1.3 Billion 24k National-Oilwell and Varco International Sign Merger Agreement in Deal Valued at US$2,670MM

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20k Newfield Exploration Company to Acquire Inland Resources

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32k CMS Energy Corp. to Sell Its Western Australian Pipeline Holdings to Australian Pipeline Trust For US$143.8MM 166k Chesapeake Energy Announces Acquisition Of Mid-Continent And South Texas Gas-Weighted Reserves From Three Private Companies For US$590MM In Cash 169k Austrias Largest Oil Company, OMV AG, Acquired a 51% stake in Romanias SNP Petrom SA For Approximately US$1.8 Billion 158k Encana Corporation Sells North East Alberta Gas-Weighted Properties To Paramount Energy Trust and Paramount Resources For US$219MM 244k Newfield Exploration Company Acquires The Majority Of Denbury Resources Gulf of Mexico Portfolio In A Transaction Valued At US$1.73/Mcfe 107k EnCana Corporation Sells Alberta Oil-Weighted Properties to Harvest Energy Trust for US$395MM In Cash 28k MarkWest Energy Partners to Acquire East Texas Gathering and Processing System From American Central for US$240MM 115k Inter Pipeline Fund to Acquire Three Extraction Plants from Williams Cos. for US$540MM 26k Saudi Aramco to Acquire 15% of Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. for US$487MM 514k Buckeye Pipeline Co., LLC to Acquire Midwest Pipelines and Terminals for US$530MM 159k Energen Acquires San Juan Basin Coalbed Methane Properties In Its Largest Ever Acquisition, Increasing Total Proved Reserves By Nearly 20% 39k Atmos Energy to Acquire TXU Gas for US$1,925MM in Cash 33k Magnum Hunter Acquires SE New Mexico Oil & Gas Properties From Encana Corp. For US$243MM, More Than Doubling Its Number Of New Mexico Wells 25k Provident Energy Trust and BreitBurn Energy Co-Founders Acquire BreitBurn Energy For US$148.3MM (C$203.7MM) 57k Petro-Canada Announces the Acquisition of Prima Energy for US$534MM in Cash at Nearly US$3.00/Mcfe 21k UPDATE: Indonesias PT Medco Energi Internasional Stands As The Only Bidder For Novus Petroleum Following Sunov Petroleums Announcement Not To Increase Its Takeover Bid Beyond A$1.85/share 34k Range Resources Becomes The Third Largest Operator In The Appalachian Basin With Acquisition Of The Remaining 50% Interest In Great Lakes Energy Partners 35k KeySpan to Reduce its Ownership in The Houston Exploration Company to 24% from 55% in Exchange for Appalachian Basin Subsidiary Holding US$389MM in Cash and US$60MM in Producing Properties 46k ChevronTexaco Corp. Divests All Of Its Conventional Properties In Western Canada To Enerplus Resources Fund And Acclaim Energy Trust For Approximately US$800MM 34k Paramount Energy Trust, With Natural Gas Interests In Alberta, Expands Interests Into Saskatchewan With Acquisition Of Cavell Energy For US$104MM 41k Petro-Canada Acquires A 29.9% Interest In The UK North Sea Buzzard Field Through Acquisition Of Intrepid Energy North Sea Ltd. For US$840MM 51k Forest Oil Acquires Wiser Oil Company At A Large Implied Offer Price Premium For US$10.60 / Share In Cash; Expands Canadian And Permian Basin Positions 32k KeySpan Facilities Income Fund to Acquire Chevron Canadas Midstream Unit EnerPro for US$192.2MM 34k In Its Largest Ever Acquisition, XTO Energy Increases Its Oil-Weighting Through Acquiring MidContinent, Rocky Mountains, And Gulf Of Mexico Onshore Assets From ChevronTexaco For US$1.1 Billion 45k Clayton Williams Energy Inc. Acquires Privately-Held Southwest Royalties Inc. With Reserves Located In the Permian Basin For US$187.8MM 29k Input/Output Diversifies Its Data Acquisition and Equipment With the $150MM Purchase of Privately Held Imaging Company GX Technology 35k Chesapeake Energy Announces Acquisition Of Privately-Held Greystone Petroleum For US$425MM; Expands Its Gulf of Mexico Reserve Base 22k Precision Drilling Adds Closely Held Data Logging System Provider Reeves Oilfield Services Ltd. in US$164.5MM Transaction 36k Dominion Resources Announces 4-Year Volumetric Production Payment (VPP) Contract With Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. In A Transaction Valued At US$413MM 340k Pioneer Natural Resources Announces Corporate Acquisition Of Evergreen Resources for US$2.1 billion; Continues Rocky Mountain Transaction Surge 32k XTO Energy Acquires Oil-Weighted Properties in West Texas and Wyoming From ExxonMobil For Approximately US$336MM 169k TXU Corp. Sheds 1.3 Bcf/d Texas Fuel Corp. Pipeline System to Energy Transfer Partners for $502MM, As Part of Multi-billion Dollar Restructuring Program 152k Progress Energy Ltd. And Cequel Energy Inc. Combine To Form Progress Energy Trust; Spin-Off Exploration Assets Of Each Company Into Two Separate Entities: Cequel Exploreco and Progress Exploreco 177k U.S. Corporate Deals May Be Returning: EnCana Corporation Acquires Tom Brown Inc. For US$2.7 Billion In Cash At An Implied Reserve Cost Of US$2.06 / Mcfe 172k Canadian Royalty Trusts Continue Premium-Priced Acquisitions as APF Energy Acquires Great Northern Exploration for US$3.00 / Proved Mcfe 134k Murphy Oil Announces An Agreement To Divest Nearly All Of Its Conventional Oil And Gas Fields In Western Canada Through Two Transactions Valued At US$624MM 170k Kerr-McGee Announces The Acquisition Of Westport Resources For US$3.7 billion in Expensive

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Transaction on Implied Proved Reserve and Per daily Mcfe Valuation Metrics 184k Precision Drilling Bolsters Global Land Rig Fleet With $316.5MM Acquisition of GlobalSantaFe Unit

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1896k Woodside Announces the Sale of 40% of its Interest in the Offshore Australia WA-271-P Exploration Permit and Associated Enfield License to Mitsui & Co for US$465MM 24k Iberian Tanker Consolidation Continues With GenMars $415MM Purchase of Portuguese Shipper Soponata SA 191k Petrofund Energy Trust Agrees to Acquire Ultima Energy Trust, Addressing Non-Resident Ownership Thresholds in Federal Governments Proposed Budget 163k Chesapeake Energy Announces Agreements To Acquire Mid-Continent, Permian Basin, And Gulf Coast Producing Properties From Undisclosed Sellers For US$100MM 157k BG Group Announces A Takeover Offer Of Aventura Energy, Majority-Owned by Vermilion Energy Trust, For US$171MM In Cash; Expands Existing Presence in Trinidad and Tobago and Bolsters Atlantic Basin LNG Portfolio 189k Marathon Strengthens Its Midwest Downstream With $2.9 Billion Purchase of Remaining 38% in JV MAP LLC 179k Teekay Shipping Stands as Colossus Over Spanish LNG Transportation Market With US$1.35 Billion Purchase of Naviera Tapias 174k Alinta Consolidates Australian Pipeline, Power Market Share With US$1.4 Billion Purchase of Duke Asia/Pacific Assets 196k Unocal Subsidiary Pure Resources Agrees To Sell Fee Mineral Interests To Black Stone Minerals Company For Over US$190MM 39k Thunder Energy Inc. Boosts Its Natural Gas Prospects In Western Canada With Announced Acquisition Of Smaller Rival Impact Energy For US$113MM 26k Encore Acquisition Company Announces Agreement To Acquire Privately Held Cortez Oil & Gas For A Total Transaction Value Of US$123MM 183k BP Finally Sheds Singapore Refining Interest, Related Assets for $140MM 23k Pacific Energy Partners Jumps Into Canadian Synthetic Transport Market With US$116.7MM Purchase of Rangeland System from BP 26k TransCanada Links to Western U.S. Gas Demand With Proposed $1.7 Billion Purchase of GTNC Pipelines 26k Vulcan Capital Sweetens Offer to Acquire Plains Resources 169k XTO Energy Agrees To Acquire Natural Gas Properties For US$200MM From Undisclosed Sellers, Entering The Barnett Shale Of North Texas And Expanding Its Arkoma Basin Holdings 48k In A Multi-Layered Transaction, EnCana and ConocoPhillips Divest Interests in Petrovera Canadian Heavy-Oil Joint Venture for C$701MM (US$535MM), with Canadian Natural Resources and Penn West Petroleum Acquiring Stakes of Two-Thirds and One-Third, Respectively 146k BG Group Puzzles Market with Announced Acquisition of El Paso Oil and Gas Canada, Featuring its Initial Upstream Foray into Canada, Purchasing Low R/P properties at an Expensive per Mcfe Price 35k Propane Distributor FerrellGas Partners Expands Into Tank-Exchange Services, Merging With Blue Rhino in $353.1MM Transaction 36k Tatneft Consortium Wins Turkish Refiner Tupras Privatization Auction 47k Plains Exploration & Production Increases Its Proved Reserve Base 74% With Announced Acquisition of fellow oil-weighted producer Nuevo Energy For US$945MM 182k Valero Adds Caribbean Presence With Purchase of El Pasos Aruba Refinery for $365MM, and Related Marine, Marketing Assets for $100MM 27k Carlyle Group Energy Fund Riverstone Holdings To Buy Mariner Energy For US$271MM In A Leveraged Management Buyout 29k CNOOC And LNG Japan Subsidiary Exercise Preemption Rights, Blocking Mitsui & Co.s December 2003 Acquisition of BG Groups 10.73% Stake in the Tangguh LNG Project 24k Lukoil Builds on 2000 Getty Purchase With $265.8MM Acquisition of 795 ConocoPhillips Retail Stations/Supply Contracts 24k Sunoco Beefs Up East Coast Gasoline Marketing Presence With $187.4MM Purchase of ConocoPhillips Stations 34k Premcor to Acquire Motivas 280,000-B/d Delaware City Refinery 37k XTO Energy Inc. Acquires Properties in East Texas And Northern Louisiana For US$249MM; Increases 2004 Gas Production Growth Target to 16-18% 29k Indonesian O&G Company PT Medco Energi Internasional Made An Unsolicited Bid For Australias Novus Petroleum For US$1.29/share, Representing a 36% Premium To Its 30-Day Average 37k Chesapeake Increases Its 2004 Production Estimates By 9% To 890 MMcfe/d; Acquires Permian Basin, Mid-Continent, and Onshore Gulf Of Mexico O&G Assets Through Its Acquisition of PrivatelyHeld Concho Resources And Two Separate Competitive Processes For US$510MM 46k El Paso-Affiliate GulfTerra, Enterprise Products Partners Create Second Largest Midstream Partnership in $4.6 Billion Merger 30k El Paso Continues Asset Sales, Shedding South Texas Processing Plants 42k Chinas Sinochem Expands Reach Into South America (Ecuador) With Its Acquisition Of a 14% Stake In the Block 16 Area of the Oriente Basin From ConocoPhillips For US$100MM 36k Hawker Resources Doubles Reserve Base Through Expensive $/Mcfe Acquisition Of Privately-Held Canadian Producer Pointwest Energy For Over US$60MM 27k EWE, German Utilities Purchase 57.9% of German Gas Distributor VNG, As E.ON Proceeds With Completion of Ruhrgas Acquisition 22k Investor Group Plants Foot in Oil Sands Region With $310MM Purchase of North American Construction Group

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37k BG Agrees to Sell 10.73% Interest In Indonesian Tangguh LNG Project To Mitsui Indonesia Gas For US$236MM 36k Newly Private EXCO Resources Establishes New Core Area in Appalachia, Agreeing to Acquire North Coast Energy for Over $200MM 34k Vulcan Capital Offers to Acquire Plains Resources for $14.25 per Share 30k Enbridge Energy Partners Grows U.S. Midstream Footprint With $247MM Purchase of North Texas Gathering/Processing System, as Morgan Stanley Capital Partners Cashes Out Investment in Cantera 37k In Its Largest Transaction To Date, Bonavista Acquires Gas Weighted Assets In Alberta For Over US$200MM From Undisclosed Privately-Held U.S. Based Seller 38k Williams Finally Sheds Alaska Refinery, Related Assets for $265MM 28k Enerplus Resources Fund Agrees to Acquire Privately-Held Ice Energy Ltd., Enters Shackleton Gas Play And CBM JV With Quicksilver 35k Lundin Petroleum Doubles Reserves With Acquisition Of DNO's Irish and UK O&G Interests, And Norwegian North Sea Assets 26k MOL Closed the Acquisition Of the 25% Plus One Share Stake in Croatian State-Owned Integrated Company INA 30k Suburban Propane to Acquire Agway Energy Products for $206MM 35k MarkWest Sheds Its Canadian E&P Assets For Nearly US$2.50/Mcfe To Canadian Royalty Trust Advantage Energy Income Fund 24k Forest Oil Acquires An Undisclosed Private Company With O&G Assets In the Permian Basin For US$102MM 37k Heritage Propane Partners to Diversify from Propane Retail into Natural Gas Midstream Through a $980MM Merger With Energy Transfer 26k Westport Resources Corp. Acquires South Texas Natural Gas Assets From Privately-Held United Resources For US$350MM 16k Kinder Morgan acquires Marathon's interest in Yates Field, assuming operatorship and increasing its stake to nearly 50% 25k ONEOK, Inc. Acquires Gas-Weighted East Texas Properties From Privately-Held Wagner & Brown For US$240MM 42k Chesapeake Makes Significant Acquisition Outside its Mid-Continent Core Area, Purchasing South Texas Properties for $200MM 16k Valuation Update on Yukos-Sibneft Transaction, Reflecting Recent Data Provided by Yukos/Sibneft Presentation 28k Valuation Update on TNK-BP Transaction, Reflecting Recent Data Provided by BP Presentation 33k TransCanada Pipelines Agrees to Acquire El Pasos 29.64% Stake in Portland Natural Gas Transportation System for US$137.2MM 24k XTO Energy Acquires Properties in the East Texas, Arkoma, and San Juan Basins For US$100MM 32k Canadian Gasoline Retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard Cements U.S. Convenience Store Foothold With US$830MM Purchase of Circle K 32k Enbridge, DTE Scoop Up Dukes Vector Pipeline Stakes, Increase North American Natural Gas Transportation Market Share 168k Santander Bank Offers US$32 per Share in Hostile Bid for Additional 16% of Spanish Integrated CEPSA 150k Update on Merit/Shell Deal 154k Merit Energy Company Acquires Shell's Michigan E&P Related Assets For US$445MM 184k China's State-Owned CNPC Purchases North Buzachi Oilfield in Kazakhstan For US$200MM 31k Preem Petroleum Consolidates Nordic Refining Leadership With US$193MM Purchase of Norsk Hydros 25% Stake in Scanraff Refinery 21k Forest Oil Announces Acquisition of Offshore GOM Properties From Unocal for US$295MM 31k Atlas Pipeline Partners Expands in Alaska With $95MM Purchase of Semcos Alaska Gas Transmission Pipeline 112k Harvest Natural Resources Divests Entire Russian Interests Through Sale of Equity Stake in West Siberian Producer to Yukos 165k Provident Energy Trust Reduces Upstream Commodity Price Exposure Through Purchase of Williams Redwater, Younger NGL Processing 156k Newfield Exploration Acquires Mid-Continent Producer Primary Natural Resources For US$87.5MM 221k BP Acquires 25% Stake In Slavneft For US$1.35 Billion In Cash 154k Samson Investment Acquires Contour Energy For US$146MM 200k Patina Purchases Privately-Held Cordillera Energy, In Its Largest Acquisition To Date, Further Diversifying Its Portfolio 25k Marathon Oil Sells Upstream Interests in Western Canada To Husky Energy for US$588MM 25k EOG Resources Increases Canadian Reserve Base By 33% Through Property Purchase From Husky Energy 24k NAL O&G Trust Acquires S.E. Saskatchewan Oil Assets; Increases Exposure in Core Area

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31k Undisclosed Institutional Investor Acquires S.E. Saskatchewan Oil Stake From Nexen For US$100MM 48k CNOOC Raises Share In S. China Sea Oilfield To 100% Through Purchase Of Aggregate 49% Stake From BP And Kerr-McGee 24k CNOOC Raises Its Stake In Bohai Bay Oilfield Through Acquisition Of BP's 24.5% Share 35k MOL Wins Privatization Bidding for 25% of Croatias Integrated INA 172k Enbridge Agrees to Purchase 90% in Cushing-Chicago Pipeline, Intends to Reverse Flow of System 25k NiSource Exits E&P Business Following Sale of Appalachian Subsidiary to Morgan Stanley Capital Partners 31k Morgan Stanley Enters into VPP Transaction with Shell, Acquiring 68 Bcf of Production from Gulf of Mexico 31k Apache Acquires Gulf of Mexico Shelf Properties from Shell, Continuing to Invest in Mature Fields 180k Enbridge Will Sell Its Alliance Pipeline, Saskatchewan Pipeline Interests for US$1.28 Billion, Creating Seed Assets for Enbridge Income Fund 21k Chesapeake Bolsters Position In Anadarko & Arkoma Basins Through Several Deals, Including The Purchase Of Oxley Petroleum 56k Statoil Enters Algeria with Acquisition of Gas Project Interests from BP 25k Canadian Oil Sands Trust Exercises Option To Acquire Encana's Remaining 3.75% Interest In The Syncrude Joint Venture 23k Anadarko Acquires GOM Shelf Properties from Amerada Hess for US$225MM 166k TransCanada PipeLines to Purchase Remaining 50% Interest in Foothills Pipeline from Duke Energy for US$185MM 42k Burlington Resources Purchases Remaining 50% Interest In Netherlands Affiliate CLAM Petroleum From Joint Venture Partner Marathon 178k Valero Will Acquire Orion Refinings 185,000-b/d Louisiana Refinery 25k CNOOC Ltd. Formalizes Acquisition Of 5.3% Interest In Australia's North West Shelf Gas Project 22k Tom Brown Acquires Privately-Held East Texas And Permian Basin Producer Matador Petroleum Corporation For US$380MM 47k Partners In Kazakhstan North Caspian Sea Project Exercise Pre-Emption Rights, Thwarting CNOOC's Proposed Acquisition 21k Acclaim Energy Trust Increases Its Light Oil And Natural Gas Exposure Through West Central Alberta Purchase 31k Sunoco Expands East Coast Refining With $130MM Purchase of El Pasos Eagle Point Facility 30k Neptune Orient Lines Agrees to Sell Its American Eagle Tanker Unit for More Than US$1 Billion 21k Petronas Increases Sudan Oil Interests Through Purchase Of Stake In Undeveloped Block From Lundin Petroleum 22k Perenco Increases Interests In UK Southern North Sea Gas Fields, As BG Divests Non-Operated Assets 29k El Paso to Sell Mid-Continent and N. Louisiana Gathering, Processing and Pipeline Assets for $120MM in Cash 22k Petronas Enters Into Atlantic Basin LNG Market Through Acquisition of Edison SpA's Offshore Egypt Concession 22k Marathon Agrees To Acquire Privately-Held Western Siberia Producer Khanty-Mansiysk Oil Corporation 21k Petronas And PetroChina Increase Interests In The Jabung PSC Through Purchase Of Amerada Hess' Stake 22k Large Russian Integrateds YUKOS and Sibneft Announce Plans To Merge, Forming New Global SuperMajor 36k Williams to Sell Its 54.6% Interest in Williams Energy Partners to Private Equity Consortium 102k Occidental Increases Permian Basin Interests Through Three Acquisitions For US$235MM 170k Suncor To Acquire ConocoPhillips Denver Refinery, Related Assets for $150MM in Cash 167k Loews Will Acquire Williams' Texas Gas Pipeline for Nearly $1.1 Billion in Cash, Debt 105k Williams Announces Significant Progress In Targeted Upstream Asset Sales, Divesting Gas Properties To XTO Energy 171k World Nordic Offers Substantial Premium in Cash for Norwegian Shipper Bergesen 120k Lukoil Agrees To Acquire Controlling Stakes In Three Oil Producers In Russia's Komi Republic 173k Frontier Takes Refining Leadership in Rockies With $422.7MM Purchase of Holly Corp. 104k ARC Energy Trust Agrees To Acquire Privately-Held Star Oil & Gas In Its Largest Transaction To-Date 163k Sunoco Agrees to Supply Contract, $190MM Purchase of Equistar Polypropylene Plant

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102k Talisman Closes Sale of Its Sudan Interests to India's ONGC 163k Halliburton to Sell Flex Pipeline Manufacturer Wellstream for $136MM in Cash

2003-03-12 2003-03-12 2003-03-11 2003-03-11 2003-03-07 2003-02-27 2003-02-25 2003-02-25 2003-02-24 2003-02-21 2003-02-13 2003-02-13 2003-02-13 2003-02-07 2003-02-04 2003-02-04 2003-02-04 2003-02-03 2003-01-30 2003-01-22 2003-01-15 2003-01-13 2003-01-13 2003-01-03 2002-12-23 2002-12-20 2002-12-18 2002-12-17 2002-12-17 2002-12-16 2002-12-12 2002-12-11 2002-12-10 2002-12-04 2002-12-03 2002-11-27

22k EXCO Resources Signs Definitive Agreement To Sell The Company To Its CEO Based On Revised Offer Terms 152k Valero Energy Unloads Terminals, Pipelines on Valero L.P Unit for $350MM in Cash 108k BG Divests Its Remaining Interest In Kazakhstan North Caspian Sea Project To Sinopec For US$615MM 104k El Paso Continues to Divest Upstream Assets, Selling New Mexico Gas Properties to Sacramento Area Utility 108k BG Agrees To Sell Half Its Interest In Kazakhstan North Caspian Sea Project To CNOOC For US$615MM 102k BP Continues to Divest Non-Core Operations Through the Sale Of Venezuelan Assets to Privately-Held Perenco 101k Chesapeake Expands Mid-Continent Gas Portfolio With $500MM Asset Purchase From El Paso 100k Progress Fuels Corp. Increases Reserve Base By 75% Through Several Onshore Transactions From Private Sellers 106k Devon Agrees To Acquire Ocean Energy In An All-Stock Deal To Form Largest U.S. Based Independent 100k Lukoil Acquires Remaining Interest In Key Russian Upstream Subsidiary 102k BP and Russian Holding Group To Form Russia's Third Largest Oil & Gas Concern Through Combination Of Key Assets 101k Lukoil Vows To Fight Rosneft's Proposed Takeover Of Russian Producer Severnaya Neft 143k BP Divests Short-Lived UK Southern North Sea Gas Assets To Private Producer Perenco 166k Sunoco Will Purchase Speedways 193 Southeast US Retail Stations for $140MM in Cash 21k Canadian Oil Sands Trust Acquires Additional 10% Interest In Syncrude Joint Venture From EnCana For C$1.1 Billion 152k General Maritime to Acquire 19 Metrostar Tankers for Nearly $525MM in Cash 157k South Korean Consortium to Acquire Hyundai Petrochemical for US$1.5 Billion in Cash, Debt, Creating Asias Largest Naphtha Processor 23k Plains Exploration Acquires 3TEC Energy To Establish Core Areas In East Texas And The Gulf Coast 21k Talisman Energy Increases Its Presence In Appalachia Through US$250MM Acquisition Of Natural Gas Properties 102k TUI AG Divests Its International E&P Portfolio To OMV As Part Of Its Withdrawal From the Oil & Gas Business 156k El Paso to Sell Florida Product Terminals for $120MM in Cash 20k Apache Acquires UK North Sea Properties From BP As Part Of A US$1.3 Billion Acquisition 20k Apache Acquires Gulf of Mexico Shelf Properties From BP As Part Of A US$1.3 Billion 113k TUI/Preussag Sells its Upstream and Related Assets in Germany to Gaz de France for US$1.04 Billion 36k CMS Energy to Shed Panhandle Companies for $1.8 Billion Cash, Debt 22k Viking Energy Royalty Trust Acquires Canadian Producer KeyWest Energy Corp. For US$206MM 102k OAO Sibneft and Tyumen Oil Company To Acquire Government Of Russia's 75% Interest In OAO Slavneft 102k Vintage Petroleum Divests Vintage Oil Ecuador, S.A. As Part Of Its 2002 Debt Reduction Program 20k Apache Acquires Natural Gas Producing Properties On South Louisiana Fee Acreage For US$260MM 165k Teekay Shipping Expands in North Sea Shuttle Market With US$800MM Purchase of Navion 34k BP Will Sell 494 German Retail Stations to PKN Orlen for US$141.1MM in Cash, Debt 165k MOL Will Control Refiner Slovnaft With Addition of 31.6% for US$367.7 in Cash, Shares, Debt 166k Eni Strengthens Iberian Gas Marketing Foothold With 50% Stake in Union Fenosa Gas 102k Chesapeake Disclosed As Buyer Of ONEOK's Mid-Continent Natural Gas Properties 170k Eni Offers to Acquire Remaining 56% of Distributor Italgas SpA for US$2.7 Billion in Cash, Debt 172k Premcor to Acquire Williams Memphis Refinery for $517.2MM

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2002-11-26 2002-11-26 2002-11-26 2002-11-25 2002-11-22 2002-11-20 2002-11-14 2002-11-11 2002-11-07 2002-11-07 2002-10-31 2002-10-29 101k Royalty Trusts Continue To Aggressively Acquire Shorter-Lived Producing Assets In Canada 171k Tesoro Chooses Kaneb Over Williams to Acquire Pipeline, Terminals for $100MM in Cash 100k ONEOK Agrees To Sell Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Producing Properties For US$300MM 102k XTO Energy Expands San Juan Basin Coalbed-Methane Holdings With Purchase From Privately-Held J. M. Huber 175k EnCana Corp. to Sell Express Pipeline, Cold Lake Interest for US$1 Billion 102k Eni Strengthens North Sea Presence by acquiring Fortum Oyj's Norwegian E&P Subsidiary For US$1.1 Billion 172k Dynegy Exits U.K. Gas Storage With $463.5MM Sale of Rough Facility to Centrica plc 161k Xcel Energy to Divest Viking Gas, Guardian Pipeline Interest for $152MM in Cash, Debt 100k Westport Acquires Rocky Mountain Natural Gas Properties From El Paso For US$502MM 101k Patina Further Increases Mid-Continent Reserves Through The Acquisition Of Privately-Held Bravo Natural Resources 102k Talisman Energy Agrees To Sell Its Sudan Assets To ONGC Videsh Limited For US$758MM 168k Grant Prideco to Acquire Schlumberger Drilling Products Unit for $351.4MM

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2002-10-23 2002-10-21 2002-10-18 2002-10-18

35k Suit Settled, Kinder Morgan Will Purchase Questars 50% TransColorado Pipeline Interest 36k Piedmont Continues North Carolina Expansion With $425MM Purchase of Progress Assets 36k ONEOK to Purchase Southern Union Texas Gas Distribution, Subsidiaries for $420MM in Cash 36k Maverick Tube Agrees to Acquire LTV Corp.s Tubular Unit for $110MM in Cash

2002-10-14 2002-10-14

167k El Paso to Sell 14.4% in Alliance Pipeline, Aux Sable Plant for US$500MM in Cash, Debt 173k National-Oilwell to Swallow Hydralift ASA for US$263.8MM in Cash, Debt

2002-10-09 2002-10-08 2002-10-04 2002-10-01 2002-10-01 2002-09-30 2002-09-25 2002-09-20 2002-09-20 2002-09-19 2002-09-17 2002-09-16 2002-08-27 2002-08-21 2002-08-21 2002-08-20 2002-08-15 2002-08-14 2002-08-13 2002-08-12

124k Pure Resources' Senior Management Agrees To Unocal's Proposed Amended Offer Increasing the Exchange Ratio 154k National Fuel Gas to Acquire Empire State Pipeline from Duke for $240MM in Cash, Debt 35k Buckeye Partners to Acquire BPs 17.97% Stake in Colonial Pipeline for $500MM in Cash, Debt 102k Westport Resources Acquires Gas-Weighted Texas Gulf Coast Properties From Privately-Held Smith Production For US$120MM 35k Dynegy to Sell Hornsea Natural Gas Storage to Scottish & Southern for US$200MM in Cash 105k Anadarko Acquires Oil-Weighted Rocky Mountain Producer Howell Corporation 166k Williams Cos. to Sell 14.6% Stake in Alliance Pipeline for US$500.1MM in Cash, Debt 101k Oil-Weighted Nuevo Energy Acquires Privately-Held Mid-Continent Gas Producer 168k Amerada Hess Sells Six Tankers to Sterling Investment Affiliate, Others for $200MM in Cash 100k Calpine Divests Some Canadian Upstream Assets In Order To Improve Liquidity 101k Premier Oil Agrees To US$670MM Restructuring Transaction With Its Principal Shareholders, Amerada Hess and Petronas 40k Williams Cos. to Sell Central Gas Pipeline to AIG Group Subsidiary for $555MM in Cash 35k Williams Energy Partners, Tesoro Petroleum Corp. 106k Unocal Offers To Buy The Remaining 35% Of Pure Resources That It Does Not Already Own 185k Williams Exits European Refining Market With US$226.2MM Sale to Yukos Oil 36k Aquila to Sell Mid-Continent Natural Gas Processing, Pipeline Assets for $265MM in Cash 98k Petrobras Acquires Devon Energy's Argentina Division 98k Kerr-McGee Sells Its Northern North Sea Assets To Canadian Natural Resources 106k Provident Energy Trust Agrees to Acquire Canadian Producer Meota Resources Corp. for US$210MM 169k Aquila to Sell Katy Natural Gas Storage, Other Assets to ScottishPower for $180MM in Cash

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2002-08-09 2002-08-09 2002-08-05 2002-08-05 2002-08-01 2002-08-01 2002-07-30 2002-07-29 2002-07-29 2002-07-24 2002-07-23 104k EXCO Resources Receives Acquisition Proposal From Its CEO 99k Anadarko Announces Sale of Heavy Oil Properties in Alberta, Canada 35k Dominion Resources to Acquire Williams Cove Point LNG Facility for $245MM 35k Enterprise Expands With $1.2 Billion Purchase of Interests in Williams NGL Pipelines 101k EnCana Increases Its Interest In Jonah Gas Field By Approximately 50% Through Purchase From Williams 34k Shell to Acquire Remaining 50% of German Refining and Retail JV for US$2 Billion 35k MidAmerican Energy Acquires Northern Natural Gas Pipeline from Dynegy for $1.9 Billion 100k Chesapeake Energy Increases Mid-Continent Reserve Base and Production Through Four Separate Acquisitions 35k El Paso Energy Partners to Acquire Midstream Assets from Partner El Paso Corp. for $782MM 21k CMS Energy Agrees to Divest Its Remaining Upstream Assets In An Attempt To Address Balance Sheet Concerns 37k ShawCor Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Remaining 50% Stake in Pipecoating JV Bredero-Shaw

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2002-07-22 2002-07-19 2002-07-10 2002-07-08

103k Petrobras To Acquire Controlling Interest In South American Integrated Perez Companc S.A. (Revised) 128k Acclaim Energy Trust to Combine Mature Assets With Ketch Energy and Create a Separate GrowthOriented Junior Producer 37k E.ON AG to Acquire Remaining 40% Stake in German Gas Distributor Ruhrgas 40k Ensign Resource Service Group Ups Ante for 84.3% of Driller Australian Oil & Gas M&

2002-07-03 2002-07-03

100k Producer Coho Energy Completes Bankruptcy Sale Of All Its Upstream Properties 34k Varco Finally Succeeds in Acquiring ICOs Oilfield Services Unit for $136.7MM M&

2002-07-01 2002-06-25 2002-06-24

36k ENI SpA and EnBW Win Bid to Acquire 62.2% of German Natural Gas Supplier GVS 105k T. Boone Pickens' BP Capital Makes Unsolicited Bid to Acquire Penn Virginia For $40/share In Cash 176k Veritas DGC and Petroleum Geo-Services ASA Amend Merger Terms to $2.9 Billion M&

2002-06-20 2002-06-20

103k Lundin Petroleum Agrees To Acquire International Producer Coparex From BNP Paribas And Minority Holders 34k Shaw Group Agrees to Acquire Privately Held Turner Industries for $250MM to $300MM

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2002-06-18 2002-06-12

101k Marathon Expands New Core Area In Equatorial Guinea, Established In Late 2001 By Acquiring CMS' Assets 182k Parker Drilling Outbids Rivals for Australian Oil & Gas With US$1.38 Per Unit Offer

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2002-05-31

39k Canadian Equipment Providers Enerflex Systems and EnSource Energy Services to Combine in US$137MM Transaction 103k Newfield to Acquire EEX, Bolstering Its South Texas Core Area and Gaining Entry Into the Deepwater GOM 169k After Lone Stars Failed Bid, Cargills Tube Unit Will Be Sold to Vallourec Consortium for $380MM in Cash 103k Yukos Wins Bid for Russian Government's 36.8% Stake in Eastern Oil Co., Tightening Control of Siberian Producer Tomskneft 106k Conoco Offers to Acquire the Gulf Indonesia Shares It Does Not Already Own For US$13.25 Per Share 169k TEPPCO Partners to Acquire Val Verde Gathering System from Burlington Resources for $444MM 155k California Investor Group Fox Paine to Acquire Israeli-based Paradigm Geophysical for $93.5MM

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2002-05-20 2002-05-16

157k Enbridge Will Transfer Transmission, Gathering, and Processing Assets to Partnership for $929MM in Cash 38k Jackup Drillers Ensco International and Chiles Offshore to Merge in $715.1MM Transaction

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2002-05-13 2002-05-13

104k Canadian Natural Resources and Rio Alto Exploration Agree to Merge, Plan to Spin-Off Rio Alto's International Operations 105k Paramount Resources Ltd. will Acquire Summit Resources Ltd. for US$212.8MM

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2002-05-10

159k ENIs Saipem Offers Nearly US$55 Per Share for French Engineering Firm Bouygues Offshore

2002-05-07 2002-05-06 2002-04-26 2002-04-26 2002-04-24 2002-04-22 2002-04-18 2002-04-16 2002-04-15 2002-04-11 2002-04-09 2002-04-02 2002-03-27 2002-03-26 2002-03-25

158k Plains All American Pipeline to Acquire Stakes in West Texas Pipelines for $315MM 100k Statoil Divests its Short-Lived Danish North Sea Assets to Dong, Plans to Focus on Larger LongerTerm International Prospects 104k Maynard Oil Company Will Be Acquired by Privately-Held Plantation Petroleum Holdings LLC 35k Saudi Basic Industries Gains European Foothold With US$2.5 Billion Purchase of DSM Chemicals 172k National Grid Group plc and U.K. Utility Lattice Group to Merge in US$17.5 billion Transaction 104k Chesapeake Energy Corp. Announces Agreement to Acquire Canaan Energy Corp. for $18.00 per Share in Cash 101k EnCana Corp. expands existing Rocky Mountain Piceance Basin Portfolio with acquisition from El Paso Corp. 98k BP Increases its Stake in Russian Oil Producer Sidanco to 25% from 10% 101k PetroChina Makes First Acquisition Outside China, Buying Devon's Indonesia Upstream Assets 102k XTO Energy Acquires Powder River Basin Reserves from CMS and Swaps the Assets with Marathon for Onshore Gulf Properties 96k Devon Sells U.S. and Canadian Properties as Part of its Planned Divestiture Program 107k Shell Agrees to Acquire Enterprise Oil for US$5.0 Billion in Cash, Increasing its UK Production by 30% 160k Royal Dutch/Shell Group Agrees to Acquire Pennzoil-Quaker State Co. for $2.7 Billion 106k The State of Papua New Guinea Endorses Oil Search's Merger with Orogen over Santos' Proposed Bid 148k Unit Corp. to Bolster Fleet With Acquisition of 20 Rigs for $123MM in Common Shares

2002-03-22

150k Flowserve Corp. To Acquire Invensys Plcs Flow Control Business for US$535MM

2002-03-13 2002-03-13 2002-03-08 2002-03-08 2002-02-28 2002-02-27

103k Chesapeake Set to Launch Hostile Bid for Mid-Continent Producer Canaan Energy 35k Williams Continues Asset Sales With $900MM Planned Divestiture of Midwest Products Pipeline 99k Energen Agrees to Acquire Permian Basin Oil Properties from Privately-held First Permian, L.L.C. 153k Williams to Sell Kern River Pipeline to MidAmerican Energy for $960MM in Cash, Debt 104k Benton Oil divests Russian E&P assets to Yukos Oil for US$220MM 157k Nabors Scoops Up Ensercos Canadian Service, Drilling Rig Fleet With US$295MM Acquisition

2002-02-25 2002-02-22

107k Helmerich & Payne Will Spin Off its Oil and Gas Division as Separate Public Company, Which Will Merge with Key Production 37k BJ Services to Acquire Rival OSCA Inc. for $441.2MM in Stock, Debt

2002-02-21 2002-02-20 2002-02-12 2002-02-06 2002-02-06 2002-02-06 2002-02-01 2002-01-30 2002-01-28 2002-01-28 2002-01-18 2002-01-11

103k Nexen acquires additional 40% interest in offshore GOM Aspen Field, increasing its stake to 60% 150k El Paso Corp. to Sell Certain Midstream Units to El Paso Energy for $750MM in Cash, Assets 37k BP to Sell Yorktown, Va., Refinery to Giant for $152.5MM Excluding Inventory 100k Enterprise Oil Acquires Odebrechts Brazilian E&P Assets, Increasing its Stake in the Bijupira-Salema Offshore Project 192k Tesoro Acquires Golden Eagle Refinery and Related Retail Assets From Valero for a Total Consideration of $1.2 Billion 18k Enbridge Will Purchase Strategic Natural Gas Gathering and Processing Assets in Northeast Texas 163k Blocked From Swapping Ruhrgas Stake For Veba Oel, BP And E.ON Revise Terms 22k Petro-Canada Agrees to Acquire Veba's International Upstream Assets from BP and E.ON for US$2.0 Billion 103k Alberta Energy and PanCanadian Energy Agree to Merge in All-Stock Transaction, Forming EnCana Corporation 147k Centrica plc to Acquire Enbridges Retail Energy Services Unit for US$621MM 102k CNOOC Ltd. agrees to acquire significant Indonesian E&P assets from Repsol-YPF for US$585MM 149k TEPPCO Partners to Expand Its Texas NGL System With Acquisition of Two Pipelines

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16k Kinder Morgan Energy Partners to acquire Intergens Tejas Gas System for 750MM 24k Magnum Hunter Agrees to Acquire Prize Energy for $24/Share in Stock and Cash, Augmenting its Onshore U.S. Core Areas 40k Noble's Samedan Oil Acquires Onshore Gulf Coast Assets from Privately-held Aspect Energy 101k Chesapeake Energy acquires 240 Bcfe of gas-weighted Mid-Continent Reserves from Three Sellers 156k Veritas DGC And PGS ASA To Create Largest 3-D Seismic Library In $3 Billion Merger M&

2001-11-27 2001-11-27 2001-11-19 2001-11-16 2001-11-02 2001-11-01 2001-10-26 2001-10-23 2001-10-22 2001-10-17 2001-10-10 2001-10-09 2001-10-03 2001-10-03 2001-09-24 2001-09-14 2001-09-10 2001-09-04 2001-09-04

24k Provident Energy Trust to Acquire Richland Petroleum Corporation 22k Stone Energy finalizes agreement to acquire offshore Gulf Of Mexico properties from Conoco 24k Phillips and Conoco Agree to Merge in Stock Deal Valued at $15.2 Billion 160k Statia Terminals Group To Liquidate Canadian, Caribbean Assets For $278.5MM 22k Marathon Oil to Acquire Upstream and Downstream Interests in Equatorial Guinea, West Africa from CMS Energy 135k AEC Pipelines To Shed Alberta Oil Sands Pipeline To Pembina Pipeline For US$142MM 164k Enbridge Energy Partners Diversifies Its Operations, Acquiring Kochs East Texas Natural Gas Gathering And Processing Assets For $230.5MM 168k BC Gas to acquire Canadian Natural Gas distributor from Westcoast Energy for US$375MM 105k Comstock Resources Signs Letter-of-Intent to Acquire DevX Energy 22k Mirant Corp. Acquires Oil and Gas Interests in South Louisiana 172k RD/Shell, Saudi Refining to Acquire Texacos Share of Equilon, Motiva for $3.8 Billion 25k Burlington Resources will double its reserves in Canada by acquiring Canadian Hunter for US$2.2 billion in cash. 22k Chesapeake Divests its Canadian Upstream Assets for US$150MM, Plans to Pay Down Bank Debt 22k BG Group Agrees to Acquire Enron Indian Upstream Operations 25k Duke Eyes Canadian Midstream Market With $8.4 Billion Acquisition of Westcoast Energy 130k Teppco to enter gas gathering/processing market with purchase of AEC's Jonah Assets 24k Dominion Resources has agreed to acquire Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas for $2.4 billion 106k Devon to Become the Largest Independent North American Producer With Agreement to Acquire Anderson Exploration 30k Santa Fe International, Global Marine to Merge in $3.6 Billion Stock Transaction

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2001-08-20

152k Lone Star Technologies to acquire North Star Tubular Unit for $430MM in cash, stock

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2001-08-14 2001-07-27 2001-07-24 2001-07-18 2001-07-10 2001-07-06

23k Devon Energy to Acquire Mitchell Energy for $3.5 Billion 22k Questar Corp. to Acquire Privately-held Shenandoah Energy for $406MM in Cash and Assumed Debt 157k Tesoro Fills in the Bookends With BPs Utah, N.Dak. Refineries and Related Assets 23k BP Swaps Ruhrgas Stake for 51% of Veba Oel in US$4.5 Billion Transaction 24k Amerada Hess Agrees to Acquire Triton, Bulking Up Its International Presence 28k Technip to Expand Into Offshore Construction and Services With Offer for Coflexip SA M&

2001-06-28

25k Hanover Compressor to Acquire Schlumberger Compression Assets for $761MM

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2001-06-25 2001-06-25 2001-06-21 2001-06-21 2001-06-20

22k Petrobras Completes Divestment of UK North Sea Upstream Assets to Enterprise Oil 24k Talisman Agrees to Acquire Restructuring Lundin Oil AB, Purchasing Proved Reserves in the UK North Sea and Malaysia 23k Penn Virginia to Acquire Privately-held Gulf Coast Producer Synergy Oil & Gas, Increasing Reserve Base Nearly 35% 40k Cabot Oil & Gas to Double its Gulf Coast Reserves Through Acquisition of Privately-held Cody Energy 24k El Paso Sets Implied Valuation Benchmark with Agreement to Acquire Velvet Exploration at

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US$2.50/Mcfe 23k Privately-Owned Hunt Oil Agrees to Acquire Gulf of Mexico Producer Chieftain International 27k Paving the Way for a Kvaerner Combo? Aker Maritime to Buy Out Its Minority Shareholders

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2001-06-13 2001-06-12

41k Sinopec Corp. to Purchase Sister-Firm Sinopec National Star for US$1.0 Billion, Acquiring largely Undeveloped Reserves in China 26k Travis Street $3.10/Share Proposal Likely Winner as ICO Management Ousted After Proxy Fight

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2001-06-11 2001-06-06 2001-06-05 2001-06-04 2001-05-30 2001-05-29 2001-05-24

23k Westport Resources More than Doubles Proved Reserve Base with Acquisition of Onshore U.S. Producer Belco Oil & Gas 31k Valero Enters Lease With Purchase Option for El Pasos Texas Gulf Coast Refinery, Midstream Assets 23k Denbury Resources Ramps Up Offshore Gulf of Mexico Portfolio with Purchase of Privately-held Matrix Oil & Gas 23k Privately-Owned Samson Investment Co. Increases Canadian Presence with Agreement to Acquire Courage Energy 23k Unocal's Canadian Subsidiary Northrock Resources to Acquire Gas-Weighted Tethys Energy 24k Conoco Targets Western Canada and Southeast Asia with Acquisition of Gulf Canada 27k Pride International Strengthens GOM Presence With $2 Billion Marine Drilling Acquisition M&

2001-05-17 2001-05-14 2001-05-08 2001-05-07 2001-05-07 2001-05-03 2001-04-26 2001-04-25 2001-04-17 2001-04-11 2001-03-30 2001-03-29 2001-03-26 2001-03-19 2001-03-07 2001-03-07 2001-03-02 2001-03-02 2001-03-01 2001-02-28 2001-02-20 2001-02-12 2001-02-09 2001-02-07

23k Baytex Energy Amends Agreement to Acquire Fellow-Canadian Triumph Energy 24k Kerr-McGee to Increase U.S. Gas Reserves by Nearly 80% with Acquisition of HS Resources 28k Valero Leapfrogs Phillips With $6.4 Billion Acquisition of Ultramar Diamond Shamrock 24k NCE Petrofund's Friendly Takeover of Magin Energy Marks the Canadian Royalty Trust's Largest Acquisition to Date 23k Williams to Acquire Barrett for $73.32/Share in Cash and Stock 24k Seneca Resources Boosts Canadian Gas Portfolio with Agreement to Aquire Player Petroleum 24k Shell Raises its Hostile Takeover Bid for Barrett From $55/share to $60/share 24k Barrett's Increase in Estimated Proved Reserves Lowers Implied Value of Shell's Bid Below $1.00/Mcfe 23k Oil-weighted Baytex Energy Boosts Gas Reserves Nearly 40% Through Acquisition of Fellow-Canadian Triumph Energy 24k Talisman Agrees to Acquire Petromet, Increasing Canadian Base to Over 50% of its Global Reserves 23k Pure Resources to Acquire Hallwood Energy Corp. for $12.50/share, Increasing its Gas Reserve Base by Nearly 25% 23k Vintage Petroleum Builds Up Western Canadian Core Area through Acquisition of Genesis Exploration 22k Ocean Energy Agreed to Acquire All of the Oil and Gas Assets held by Privately-owned EnSight Resources, L.L.C. 18k Enbridge Gains Gulf Coast Foothold With $27/Share Acquisition of Midcoast Energy 23k Shell Proposes to Acquire Barrett Resources for $55/share 24k Teekay Shipping Expands Into North Sea With Ugland Nordic Acquisition 23k Fletcher Challenge Rejects Peak Petroleum's Sweetened bid as having ''No Substance'' 24k Shiningbank's Purchase of Ionic Energy Marks the Royalty Trust's Third Acquisition in the Past Year 23k Shell and Apache Make "Final Offer" for Fletcher Challenge Energy, Raising their Cash Bid to US$3.55/share 23k New Zealand-based Consortium Tops Shell/Apache's bid for Fletcher Challenge Energy 22k Amerada Hess Acquires Gulf Coast Natural Gas and Crude Oil Reserves from Privately-held LLOG Exploration Co. for $750MM 23k Anadarko Agrees to Acquire Berkley For $11.40/Share, Topping Hunts Oil Hostile Takeover Bid of C$10.50/Share 24k Calpine Secures Additional Natural Gas Supplies through Acquisition of Canadian-based Encal Energy 25k Patterson Energy to Acquire UTI in $1.45 Billion Transaction M&

2001-02-06 2001-02-06

38k Pengrowth Energy Trust Acquiring Nova Scotia's 8.4% Interest in Sable Offshore Energy Project 17k Phillips Surprises With Acquisition of Tosco for $9.8 Billion in Stock, Debt

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2001-02-02 2001-02-02 22k Pure Resources Adds Gas-Weighted Permian Basin, Gulf of Mexico Reserves through Acquisition from International Paper 23k Halliburton to Sell Dresser Equipment Group for $1.55 Billion in Cash, Liabilities

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2001-01-29 2001-01-26

24k Northern Border Partners Expands Into Powder River, Williston Basins With Acquisition of Bear Paw Energy, LLCs Gas Gathering Assets 33k Travis Street Partners Proposes to Offer $2.85 per Share for ICO Inc., Triggering Proxy Fight; ICO Hires Financial Advisors 23k Bellwether Exploration Co. Agreed to Acquire Bargo Energy, Enhancing Its Portfolio 22k Apache Agreed to Acquire Repsol's Interests in Egypt for US$410MM 23k Ocean Energy Agreed to Acquire Texoil Inc. 23k Anderson Exploration to Acquire Numac Energy in Friendly Takeover 22k Alberta Energy Acquires Second Privately-Held Rockies Gas Producer in the Past Year 40k Texaco Acquires EnerVest's San Juan Basin Coal Bed Methane Gas Properties 22k Newfield Exploration Increases Onshore Gas-Weighting with Purchase of Lariat Petroleum 23k Berkley Petroleum Rejects Hunt Oil's Unsolicited Takeover Bid of C$10/share 23k Marathon Targets Coal Bed Methane Play with Acquisition of Pennaco Energy 25k Eni Trumps Hess' Bid With All-Cash Offer for LASMO 23k Tom Brown Establishes Foothold in Western Canada with Acquisition of Stellarton Energy 23k Phillips Agreed to Acquire Petroz NL for A$0.70/Share in Cash, Topping ENI's Offer of A$0.56/Share 28k Apache Acquires Phillips' Zama Properties in Canada for $490MM 29k ARC Energy Trust to Acquire Fellow-Canadian Startech Energy 25k Kinder Morgan to Acquire U.S. Pipelines/Terminals of GATX for $1.15 Billion 29k Shell Offers to Acquire 65.7% of Woodside Petroleum It Does Not Already Own 29k Pogo Producing Increases Domestic Weighting With Acquisition of Privately-held North Central Oil 28k ENI S.p.A. Agreed to Acquire Petroz NL for A$0.56/Share in Cash in White Knight Bid, Topping Hostile Takeover Offer by Novus Petroleum 27k Sunoco to Acquire Aristech Chemical Corp. from Mitsubishi Corp. 29k EnerMark Income Fund Adds Cabre Exploration to its Stable of Canadian Holdings 32k Amerada Hess Bulks Up International E&P Portfolio With Acquisition of LASMO 53k Coflexip to Acquire Aker Maritime's Deepwater Unit for $625MM in Cash, Debt

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2001-01-25 2001-01-23 2001-01-20 2001-01-19 2001-01-18 2001-01-09 2001-01-02 2000-12-28 2000-12-26 2000-12-21 2000-12-15 2000-12-08 2000-12-07 2000-12-04 2000-11-30 2000-11-27 2000-11-21 2000-11-16 2000-11-09 2000-11-07 2000-11-06 2000-11-01

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2000-10-30 2000-10-24 2000-10-24

29k Stone Energy Broadens Gulf of Mexico Strategy With Acquisition of Basin Exploration 28k Conoco Acquires Statoil's North Sea Heavy Oil Assets 24k Universal Compression Holdings Inc. Acquires Weatherford Global Compression Services M&

2000-10-16 2000-10-11 2000-10-10 2000-10-05 2000-10-03 2000-09-21 2000-08-28 2000-08-25 2000-08-23

32k Chevron to Acquire Texaco, Forming World's Fourth Largest Oil Company 28k Shell Acquires Fletcher Challenge's New Zealand and Brunei Upstream Assets as FCE Sells Its Energy Division 29k Apache Acquires Fletcher Challenge Energys Canadian Assets as FCE Sells Its Entire Energy Division 32k Murphy Oil Increases Canadian Holdings With Acquisition of Beau Canada 32k Gulf Canada to Acquire Crestar in Friendly Deal, Forming Top 10 North American Independent 29k Evergreen Expands Raton Basin Coal Bed Methane Play With Acquisition From Kansas City Power & Light 29k PanCanadian Acquires Montana Power's Upstream and Midstream Assets 29k Gaz de France Acquires Trans Canada Pipelines' in the Dutch North Sea and Becomes an Offshore Operator 89k Transocean Sedco Forex Acquires R&B Falcon Becoming the Third-Largest Oil Services Company

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2000-08-15 2000-08-10 2000-08-08 2000-07-27 2000-07-20 2000-07-13 2000-07-10 2000-07-07 2000-07-05 2000-06-30 2000-06-23

29k Michael Petroleum Corp. Has Emerged From Bankruptcy and Been Acquired by El Paso and Cargill 29k EnerMark Income Fund Enters into Agreement to Acquire Private Natural Gas Producer, EBOC Energy Ltd 29k BP Sells Short-lived Natural Gas Producing Assets in the North Sea Formerly Owned by ARCO 28k Amerada Hess Acquires Interest in Offshore Azerbaijan Producing Field 29k Apache to Acquire Occidental's Gulf of Mexico Interests 97k Tosco Corp. Acquires Gulf Coast Refinery from BP Amoco for $660MM 32k Forest Grows Onshore and Offshore U.S. Portfolio With Acquisition of Forcenergy 120k Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Acquires the Avon Refinery from Tosco Corp. for $650MM 29k Crestar Makes First International Foray With Purchase of Ecuador Heavy-Oil Assets From CMS 29k Chesapeake Ramps Up Mid-Continent Gas Operation With Acquisition of Gothic Energy 90k Precision Drilling and Plains Energy Services Finally Agree to Combine for $232.4MM

2000-06-21 2000-06-19 2000-06-19 2000-06-15 2000-06-14 2000-06-13

32k Canadian Consolidation Continues as Ventus Energy Agrees to Acquire Edge Energy 28k Conoco to Acquire Saga UK From Norsk Hydro, Increasing Stakes in Britannia and Alba Fields 32k Privately-Held Husky Oil to Acquire Renaissance, Forming Canada's Second Largest Oil & Gas Producer 33k Ranger Oil Has Agreed to a Friendly Takeover By Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 28k Apache Bolsters Domestic Onshore Base With Gas-weighted Acquisition 40k Maverick Tube Corp. and Prudential Steel Ltd. Combine to Form North Americas Largest Tubular Goods Producer 32k Repsol YPF Launches Exchange Offer For Full Control of Astra 20k Total Fina Elf Agreed to Acquire Interests in Several South American Natural Gas 33k Devon Energy to Acquire Santa Fe Snyder, Forming Top 5 U.S.-Based Independent 32k Vastar Board Approves Revised $83/share Cash Offer From BP Amoco 32k Following Rejection by Ulster, Hunt Finds Willing Takeover Candidate in Canada's Newport Petroleum 29k Rio Alto Exploration to Acquire Smaller Canadian Producer Renata Resources in Friendly Takeover 29k Petro-Canada Sold Oil Properties in Western Canada as Part of Its Planned Exit From the Region 41k Alberta Energy to Acquire Privately-Held McMurry Oil Co., Which Owns a Major Interest in Wyoming's Jonah Gas Field 29k Privately-held Samson to Acquire Calahoo Petroleum, Continuing a Trend of US Cross Border Acquisitions 28k Amerada Hess Acquires Algerian Oil Redevelopment Project, Forms Joint Operating Co. With Sonatrach 28k Louis Dreyfus to Acquire Oil & Gas Assets of Re-Organizing Costilla Energy 29k Seneca Resources Enters Canada With Offer For Oil-Weighted Tri Link Resources 29k Anderson Exploration is Ulster Petroleums' White Knight, Topping Hunt Oil's Hostile Offer 28k Coho Energy Emerged From Chapter 11, Having Consummated Debt to Equity Conversion Plan 28k Bargo Energy Acquired Permian Basin Oil Properties From Texaco 32k Unocal Canada Seeks to Acquire Remaining 52.4% Stake in Northrock Resources 29k Petrobank Launches Hostile Takeover Bid For Ranger Oil, Which is Exploring All Alternatives 29k BP Amoco Acquires 2% Equity Interest in PetroChina for $578MM in IPO - Buying into a Relationship With China 41k Tosco Acquires Equilons Wood River Refinery Becoming the Third Largest U.S. Refiner 32k Hunt Oil Launches Hostile Takeover Offer For Ulster Petroleums, Which is Exploring All Alternatives 29k Baytex to Acquire Fellow Canadian Heavy-Oil Producer Bellator

2000-06-12 2000-06-01 2000-05-26 2000-05-24 2000-05-15 2000-05-10 2000-05-05 2000-05-02 2000-04-27 2000-04-26 2000-04-25 2000-04-24 2000-04-17 2000-04-14 2000-04-12 2000-04-10 2000-04-08 2000-04-07 2000-04-07 2000-04-06 2000-04-05

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28k Quicksilver Resources Closed Acquisition of Michigan Natural Gas Properties From CMS Energy 29k Anadarko to Merge With UPR, Creating a New Super Independent 32k ENI SpA Launches a Cash Offer for British-Borneo Oil & Gas PLC, Stock Price Closes 10% Above Offer Price 32k BP Amoco Offers to Acquire Minority Interest in Vastar Resources 28k Phillips Petroleum Acquires ARCO's Alaska Oil Assets at Attractive Price - Largest Asset Deal Ever 42k BP Amoco Boosts its Lubricants Business, Agrees to Acquire Burmah Castrol plc for $5.6 Billion 28k Royal Dutch Shell Sells Offshore Australia Assets to Santos Ltd. 53k TXU Continues Expansion into Europe 41k Occidental Petroleum Acquires Altura Energy For $3.6 Billion 43k Valero Energy Acquires West Coast Refining and Marketing Operations from Exxon Mobil for $895MM 29k Occidental Sells Its Stake in CanOxy 28k Talisman Acquires North Sea Oil Assets in a Series of Transactions 28k Repsol-YPF Divests Remaining Stake in Crescendo Resources 28k MCN Energy Group Sells Appalachian E&P and Related Pipeline Properties 28k Santa Fe Snyder Acquired Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Properties For $160MM 41k Duke Acquires East Tennessee Natural Gas Co. for $386MM in Cash 28k Statoil Begins to Exit the United States With Sale of Natural Gas Assets in Appalachia

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