• Patina Oil & Gas Corp., Denver, has acquired Oklahoma-based Le Norman Energy Corp. for $62 million in cash and 205,302 common shares. Le Norman's properties are primarily in the Anadarko and Ardmore-Marietta basins of Oklahoma. Proved reserves are estimated at 12.1 million bbl. of oil and 16.4 billion cu. ft. of gas. The purchase will increase Patina's total production more than 10% and its oil production roughly 25%. Additionally, Patina plans to acquire Bravo Resources Inc., Tulsa, Okla., for $119 million. Bravo's properties are primarily in the Anadarko Basin of Texas and Oklahoma. Proved reserves are estimated at 133 billion cu. ft. of gas equivalent, 90% gas. Net daily production is approximately 15 million cu. ft. of gas equivalent. Bravo holds interests in 272 producing wells and operates 119. The reserves are concentrated in Buffalo Wallow Field in the Texas Panhandle and Eakly-Weatherford Field in Oklahoma. Petrie Parkman & Co. Inc. was financial advisor to Bravo. • Black Stone Minerals Co. LP, Houston, has acquired producing and nonproducing fee minerals from Ocean Energy Inc., Houston, for approximately $61 million. The properties are in 16 states, primarily Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. The assets include royalty and overriding royalty interests in approximately 3,000 wells with net daily production of approximately 1,500 BOE. • Quicksilver Resources Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, plans to acquire the Michigan gas assets of Enogex Exploration Corp. for $32 million. The assets produce approximately 8.5 million cu. ft. of gas per day from the Antrim Shale. • Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, wholly owned subsidiary Fortuna Energy Inc. has acquired certain assets in the Trenton-Black River play, New York, from Fairman Drilling Co., FDC Venture 15 LP, East Resources Inc. and Abarta Oil & Gas Co. Inc. for US$58.6 million. The assets include 268,000 acres of land in New York, approximately 23 billion cu. ft. of proved gas reserves, and production of 10 million cu. ft. of gas. The price per thousand cu. ft. of gas reserves is about US$1.25, according to Talisman. • Southwestern Energy Co., Houston, sold its Midcontinent properties in Oklahoma for $26.9 million to a privately held firm. The assets include 700 oil and gas wells, predominantly in the Sho-Vel-Tum area of southern Oklahoma, the Anadarko Basin in western Oklahoma and the Sooner Trend of northwest Oklahoma. Production is estimated at 6.5 million cu. ft. of gas equivalent per day, net. Total proved reserves are estimated at about 33 billion cu. ft. of gas equivalent. • Exco Resources Inc., Dallas, has acquired assets in the DJ Basin of Colorado for $22 million. Total proved reserves are estimated at approximately 26.1 billion cu. ft. of gas equivalent, consisting of approximately 2.1 million bbl. of liquids and 13.5 billion cu. ft. of gas. Production is approximately 630 bbl. of liquids and 3.74 million cu. ft. of gas per day. • Rockford Energy Partners LLC, Tulsa, Okla., has acquired properties in the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma from Questar Exploration and Production Co., Salt Lake City. The assets include 133 wells producing 12.2 million cu. ft. of gas per day. • Mission Resources Corp., Houston, is selling noncore properties, through a property auction and a negotiated transaction, for a total of $15.4 million. Mission will divest certain operated and nonoperated interests in the Giddings Field and all of its interests in the Eunice Field in southeast New Mexico. Mission will no longer have properties in New Mexico. It is also selling the remainder of its operated interests in the Permian Basin. The properties produce approximately 950 BOE per day and contain reserves of 2.1 million BOE. • PetroCorp Inc., Tulsa, Okla., has sold its interests in the Big Escambia Creek and Flomaton fields in Escambia County, Ala., to an undisclosed buyer for $11.5 million. PetroCorp had acquired the assets in its 2001 $74-million acquisition of Southern Mineral Corp.