June 5, 2015

PetroQuest Energy, Inc. (NYSE: PQ) today announced the closing of the sale of the majority of its interests in the Woodford and Mississippian Lime (the “Sold Assets”) for gross proceeds of $280 million, subject to estimated purchase price adjustments between the effective date of January 1, 2015 and the closing date.  During the first quarter of 2015, the Sold Assets

Apache Corporation (NYSE, Nasdaq: APA) today announced it has completed the previously disclosed sale of its Australian subsidiary Apache Energy Limited to a consortium of private equity funds managed by Macquarie Corporate Holdings Limited and Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (BAM) (BAM-A.TO) (BAMA.NX). Total proceeds of $1.9 billion are net of $225 million in customary, post-closing adjustments for the period between

Article and Analysis by Bloomberg The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will stick to its strategy of favoring market share over prices when it meets in Vienna on June 5. That means the 12 nations will maintain a group production target of 30 million barrels a day, according to all but one of 34 traders and analysts surveyed by Bloomberg

Story by CBS 4 Denver Colorado’s oil and gas industry says it will need to fill tens of thousands of jobs over the next decade as the industry grows and people retire, and it hopes to fill many of those positions with women. The industry is now making a pitch to girls as young as 11. Bentley says women make

Opinion Piece by The Wall Street Journal So even the Environmental Protection Agency now concedes that fracking is safe, which won’t surprise anyone familiar with the reality of unconventional oil and natural gas drilling in the U.S. But if no less than the EPA is saying this, then the political opposition doesn’t have much of a case left. “We did