In this week's video sponsored by KeyBanc Capital Markets Marathon Oil Corp. announced a group of transactions totaling nearly $1 billion in asset sales. The largest deal involves Marathon selling its Wyoming assets for $870 million, including a 570-mile pipeline, to private E&P Merit Energy. Marathon’s other three deals total $80 million. Meanwhile, Rice Energy announced its plans to acquire more than 27,000 net acres in the Marcellus directly next door to its core in Green County, Pa., from bankrupt Alpha Natural Resources.
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Marathon Bucks Wyoming, Piceance In Deal Worth Nearly $1 Billion
Marathon Oil's Wyoming Divestiture Patches Company Budget Holes
Rice Energy Ponies Up $200 Million In Marcellus 'Stalking Horse' Deal
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