• Vintage Petroleum Inc., Tulsa, plans to acquire Calgary-based Genesis Exploration Ltd. for C$18.25 per share or a total consideration, including debt assumption, of approximately C$898 million. Johnson Rice & Co. LLC is financial advisor to Vintage. TD Securities Inc. and Yorkton Securities Inc. are financial advisors to Genesis. Vintage's offer is US$7.28 per BOE for Genesis' proven reserves. The new Vintage would have roughly 382 million BOE of proven developed reserves, 186 million of proven undeveloped reserves, and 568 million of total reserves. • Canadian Oil Sands Investments Inc., Calgary, manager of Canadian Oil Sands Trust, and Athabasca Oil Sands Investments Inc., manager of Athabasca Oil Sands Trust , plan to merge the two trusts. The combined trust will have a market capitalization of approximately C$2 billion and a 21.74% ownership interest in the Syncrude joint venture, the world's largest oil-sands mining project. Each Canadian Oil Sands Trust and Athabasca Oil Sands Trust unitholder will receive one unit in the combined trust in exchange for each outstanding unit. A special distribution of C$0.50 per unit will be paid by Athabasca Oil Sands Trust to its unitholders in conjunction with the next regular distribution. Athabasca Oil Sands Trust is being advised by Merrill Lynch Canada Inc. and its independent committee is being advised by RBC Dominion Securities Inc. Canadian Oil Sands Trust is being advised by CIBC World Markets Inc. • Shiningbank Energy Income Fund, Calgary, plans to acquire Ionic Energy Inc. for either 0.306 Shiningbank trust unit or C$5.10 per share for a total consideration of C$185.7 million, including the assumption of approximately C$59.5 million in debt and working capital deficiency. Shiningbank has retained CIBC World Markets Inc. as financial advisor and soliciting dealer-manager. Ionic has retained Peters & Co. Ltd. as financial advisor. • Hunt Oil Co., Dallas, subsidiary Hunt Oil Co. of Canada Inc. plans to acquire Calgary-based Canadian 88 Energy Corp. 's interests in the Caroline B pool gas project in west-central Alberta and the Waterton gas property in southwestern Alberta for C$176 million. The acquisition will give Hunt a 100% working interest in Caroline B. At Waterton, Hunt will acquire a 90% working interest and operatorship. • Petrobank , Calgary, plans to acquire 793640 Alberta Ltd. , 793631 Alberta Ltd. and 793686 Alberta Ltd. , from Sunoma Energy Corp. for C$41 million plus the assumption of approximately C$32 million of senior debt and C$50 million of unsecured gas indexed notes for a total of C$124 million. • APF Energy Trust, Calgary, plans to acquire Alliance Energy Inc. for C$2.02 per Alliance common share up to a maximum of C$35.3 million or 0.201 APF trust units per Alliance common. APF will also assume all of Alliance's debt. The deal has a total value of approximately C$90 million, including the pending acquisition by Alliance of light-oil assets in southeast Saskatchewan. The current Alliance properties are primarily in the Queensdale, Macoun, Ingoldsby, Carlyle and Lost Horse Hills areas. The bulk of the Saskatchewan acquisition is close to Alliance's existing production.