Acquisitions and Divestitures News in United States
| 1/3/2011 - CB&I announced that it has acquired Chemical Research and Licensing from CRI/Criterion, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc. This acquisition gives CB&I, through its Lummus Technology business secto... |
| 12/30/2010 - EV Energy Partners, L.P. (EVEP) announced it, along with certain institutional partnerships managed by EnerVest, Ltd., closed the previously announced Barnett Shale oil and natural gas property acquis... |
| 12/30/2010 - Constellation Energy announced it has signed an agreement to sell the 550-megawatt Quail Run natural gas plant in west Texas to High Plains Diversified Energy Corporation (HPDEC) for $185.3 million. T... |
| 12/29/2010 - Hess Corporation announced that is has completed the acquisition of 167,000 net acres in the Bakken oil shale play in North Dakota from TRZ Energy, LLC for $1,050 million in cash. The acquired propert... |
| 12/27/2010 - Magnum Hunter Resources Corporation announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Triad Hunter, LLC, has executed a definitive agreement to acquire oil and gas properties and leasehold mineral interests... |
| 12/27/2010 - Legacy Reserves LP (Legacy) announced that on December 22, 2010, it closed the previously announced acquisition of Permian Basin oil and natural gas properties from Concho Resources Inc. The purchase ... |
| 12/23/2010 - Petrohawk Energy Corporation (Petrohawk) announced that it has completed the sale of its natural gas assets in the Fayetteville Shale, located primarily in Cleburne and Van Buren Counties, Arkansas, t... |
| 12/23/2010 - Melrose Resources plc, the oil and gas exploration, development and production company, announces that it has completed the sale of the Company's assets in the Permian Basin in the USA to Quantum Reso... |
| 12/22/2010 - EOG Resources, Inc. (EOG) and Newfield Exploration Company, under the terms provided for in the purchase and sale agreement, have mutually agreed to terminate the agreement announced November 15, 2010... |
| 12/22/2010 - Gulfsands Petroleum plc, the oil and gas production, exploration and development company with activities in Syria, Iraq, Tunisia, Italy and the U.S.A., is pleased to announce the sale of three propert... |
| 12/21/2010 - EXCO Resources, Inc. announced the acquisition of properties prospective for the Marcellus shale from Chief Oil & Gas LLC and related parties for approximately $459.4 million, after preliminary purcha... |
| 12/20/2010 - Gastar Exploration Ltd. announced that the Company has completed the previously announced Marcellus property acquisition for $29.1 million. The acquisition consists of approximately 62,000 net acres o... |
| 12/17/2010 - Energy XXI announced it has completed the previously announced purchase of certain shallow-water Gulf of Mexico shelf oil and natural gas interests from ExxonMobil and its affiliates. ... |
| 12/13/2010 - US?focussed oil and gas exploration and production company, Target Energy Limited, is pleased to advise that it has entered into an agreement to earn up to a 50% working interest and operatorship of p... |
| 12/10/2010 - Shell announced an agreement to sell a group of gas fields in South Texas to OXY USA, Inc., a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corp., for approximately $1.8 billion, effective January 1, 2011. The s... |
| 12/9/2010 - RAM Energy Resources, Inc. announced it has closed a purchase and sale agreement effecting the strategic divestiture of the company's North Texas Barnett Shale and Boonsville properties to Milagro Pro... |
| 12/9/2010 - Energen Corporation announced that its oil and gas exploration and production company, Energen Resources Corporation, has purchased 40,000 acres in the Permian Basin from SandRidge Energy Inc. for $11... |
| 12/8/2010 - EOG Resources Inc would consider taking a joint venture partner for some of its shale gas acreage should the exploration company's plans to sell as much as $1.5 billion in natural gas assets in 2011 n... |
| 12/8/2010 - Proper Power & Energy, Inc. announced that it will issue a letter of intent to proceed with the acquisition of additional oil and gas leases in Kentucky. The Company has received an extensive written ... |
| 12/7/2010 - W&T Offshore, Inc.announced that Shell Offshore Inc. has informed W&T that BP Exploration & Production Inc., the operator of the Gulf of Mexico deepwater blocks Viosca Knoll 871 & 915, known as the Ma... |
