News Topics: Company Mergers, Acquisitions, & JVs

Friday, June 07, 2013 Cuadrilla Resources is mulling a potential farm-in deal concerning its Bowland shale license, with Centrica reported to be in advanced talks with the company.

Thursday, June 06, 2013 Devon Energy's board approves the proposed formation of a publicly traded midstream company.

Thursday, June 06, 2013 Accelerated announces its acquisition of the assets of Texas Systems & Controls, Inc.

Wednesday, June 05, 2013 CNOOC plans to partner with Iceland's Eykon Energy in an application for a license to explore and produce oil and gas in Arctic waters offshore Iceland.

Tuesday, June 04, 2013 Foster Wheeler acquires NorthAm Engineering, a privately held engineering company located in Monterrey, Mexico.

Monday, June 03, 2013 Andes Energia signs a joint venture deal with Imetame Energia to explore Imetame's onshore assets in Brazil.

Monday, June 03, 2013 Polar Petroleum completes its acquisition of a 100 percent Working Interest (WI) in 12 oil and gas leases offshore Alaska's North Slope region, collectively known as the Point Thomson project.

Monday, June 03, 2013 Mediterranean Oil & Gas says it is joining Cairn Energy in the exploration of Malta’s offshore Area 3.

Monday, June 03, 2013 Kodiak Oil & Gas enters into a definitive purchase and sale agreement with Liberty Resources to acquire additional core Bakken and Three Forks producing properties and undeveloped leasehold in North Dakota's Williston Basin.

Monday, June 03, 2013 UK-based oil and gas exploration company GDF SUEZ E&P UK agrees to sell its 25% interest in the Austen oil field in the Central North Sea to E.ON E&P UK.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 Russia agrees to set up a joint venture with Inpex to explore the Sea of Okhotsk.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 Enegi Oil teams up with Advanced Buoy Technology to exploit stranded, offshore oil reserves.

Thursday, May 23, 2013 Occidental may consider selling its overseas assets or splitting into three separate companies in order to fund a stock buyback and improve its share price, Chief Executive Steve Chazen tells investors.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 Delta SubSea enters a multi-year framework agreement with FMC Schilling Robotics.

Friday, May 17, 2013 Bolttech Mannings signs an agreement to acquire Alberta-based Red Flame Industries Inc.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 YPF and Chevron move closer to finalizing an agreement that would see the US energy company invest $1.5 billion to develop shale oil deposits in the South American country.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Turkey's state-run oil firm enters an agreement with ExxonMobil to develop joint projects in Kurdish-administered northern Iraq, the country's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says.

Monday, May 06, 2013 Quickflange appoints Texas-based INTEGRA Services Technologies as a local North American partner for nominated customers.

Friday, May 03, 2013 Otto Energy Limited announced that Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company has become a partner in the Galoc joint venture.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 Rosneft enjoys an 82.4% boost to its production of hydrocarbons thanks to the TNK-BP acquisition.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 Contango and Crimson Exploration jointly announce that they have signed a merger agreement for an all-stock transaction pursuant to which Crimson would become a wholly owned subsidiary of Contango.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 BP reports a threefold increase in profit for the first quarter as proceeds from sale of TNK-BP offset a fall in oil and gas production.

Thursday, April 25, 2013 If talks between Shell and ONGC are successful, it would mark Shell's return to exploration in India some 16 years after it sold its 50% stake in Rajasthan assets to Cairn.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Range Resources is proposing a merger with International Petroleum to see an enlarged company that will focus on projects in Russia, Trinidad and onshore Africa.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Rosneft sees it achieving $2.4 billion of synergies over the next three years from its integration with oil company TNK-BP.

Monday, April 22, 2013 Reports say that Brazilian businessman Eike Batista is in talks to sell a 40-percent stake in OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes to Russia's Lukoil.