Equity Company Exchange / Symbol Headquarters Amount Comments Amerada Hess Corp. (NYSE: AHC) New York US$600 million Sold 12 million mandatory convertible shares at US$50 each. Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. (Tokyo: YY) Tokyo up to US$296 million Set a tentative price of Y3,300 to Y3,500 a share for its initial public offering of 9.03 million shares. Whiting Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: WLL) Denver US$247.6 million Completed its initial public offering of 17.25 million shares at US$15.50 each. Merrill Lynch & Co. was lead manager and book-runner. Alliant Energy Corp. sold the shares. Encore Acquisition Co. (NYSE: EAC) Fort Worth, Texas US$155 million Sold 8 million shares at US$20.each. Proceeds will be used to repurchase shares from J.P. Morgan Partners LLC and Warburg, Pincus Equity Partners. First Calgary Petroleum Ltd. (Toronto: FCP) Calgary C$140 million Sold 35 million shares in Canada and the U.K. El Paso Corp. (NYSE: EP) Houston US$53 million Sold 8.8 million shares at US$5.95 each. Proceeds will be used as part of the Western Energy settlement. KCS Energy Inc. (NYSE: KCS) Houston US$45.2 million Sold 6 million shares at $8 each. Jefferies & Co. Inc. and Sanders Morris Harris Inc. were co-lead managers. Acclaim Energy Trust (Toronto: AE.UN) Calgary C$46.8 million Closed a bought-deal financing of 4.3 million trust units at C$11 each. Double Eagle Petroleum Co. (Nasdaq: DBLE) Casper, Wyo. US$20.2 million Privately placed 1.295 million shares. Progress Energy Ltd. (Toronto: PGX) Calgary C$21 million Sold 2 million common shares for C$10.50 each. Rider Resources Inc. (Toronto: RRZ) Calgary C$20.1 million Issued 5.5 million common shares at C$3.65 each. Atlas Energy Ltd. (Toronto: AED) Calgary C$18.9 million Privately placed 4.2 million common shares and 1.15 million flow-though shares. Pan-Ocean Energy Corp. Ltd. (Toronto: POC.B) St. Heuer, Jersery, U.K. C$16 million Privately placed 2 million special warrants at C$8 each. Haywood Securities Inc. was lead underwriter. Hawker Resources Inc. (OTCBB: HKRRF) Calgary C$15.2 million Sold 2.9 million flow-through shares at C$5.35 each. Peters & Co. Ltd. led the under-writing syndicate. Calvalley Petroleum Inc. (Toronto Venture: CVI.A) Calgary C$13 million Privately placed 11.2 million units at $1.16 each. Desjardins Securities Inc. was agent. Proceeds will fund working capital and accelerate development of Block 9 in Yemen. Debt Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (Pink Sheets: PGEOY) Oslo, Norway, and US$995 million Emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and issued more than US$745 million 10% senior notes due 2010 and US$250 million in 8% senior notes due 2006 to its main creditors. BP Plc (NYSE: BP) London US$750 million Sold 2.75% guaranteed notes due 2006. UBS was underwriter. Calpine Corp. (NYSE: CPN) San Jose, Calif. US$600 million Sold senior unsecured convertible notes. Suncor Energy Inc. (Toronto: SU) Calgary US$500 million Sold 5.95% senior unsecured notes due 2034. Proceeds will pay 7.40% debt maturing in February 9.05% and 9.125% preferred securities. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (NYSE: KMP) Houston US$500 million Sold 10-year notes. J.P. Morgan was lead manager with Citigroup and Wachovia Securities Inc. Calpine Corp. (NYSE: CPN) San Jose, Calif. US$400 million Sold senior secured notes. Proceeds purchased US$433.6 million outstanding notes. Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) Oklahoma City US$200 million Priced a private offering of senior notes due 2016. McDermott International Inc. (NYSE: MDR) New Orleans US$200 million Priced 11% senior secured notes due 2013. KCS Energy Inc. (NYSE: KCS) Houston US$100 million Amended its credit facility. Real Resources Inc. (Toronto: RER) Calgary C$71 million Received an extendible revolving credit facility. Baytex Energy Trust (Toronto: BTE.u) Calgary C$65 million Will issue trust units to raise money for capital spending and acquisitions. TD Securities will lead the syndicate. Michael Baker Corp. (Amex: BKR) Pittsburgh US$40 million Extended the maturity date of its revolving credit facility. APF Energy Trust (Toronto: AY.UN) Calgary C$50 million Sold 9.4% convertible notes at C$11.25 each. ATP Oil & Gas Corp. (Nasdaq: ATPG) Houston US$15 million Increased its senior credit facility by US$15 million. American Natural Energy Corp. (Toronto Venture: Tulsa, Okla. US$12 million Sold in convertible secured debt. Omni Energy Services Corp. (Nasdaq: OMNI) Carencro, La. US$11 million Received a new senior credit facility including US$8 million for working capital and a term loan for US$3 million for equipment. Gemini Energy Corp. (Toronto: GNI) Vancouver C$10 million Arranged a nonbrokered private placement of convertible debt. Proceeds will be used for further development of Wyoming properties.
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