Oil and Gas Investor Magazine - April 2003 April 1, 2003 Feature AVOIDING THE PITFALLS ABROAD Other CANADIAN COMPETITION Leslie Haines COOK INLET BASIN Peggy Williams CREATING AN INDUSTRY Other CRUSHING DILEMMAS Other DOORS WIDE SHUT Other FUEL SERVICE Other GETTING IN ON THE GROUND Leslie Haines LEGAL DOLLS Other MIDSTREAM IPOS Other PRICES UP Nissa Darbonne PRIVATE CAPITAL Brian Toal RUSSIA: AN OVERVIEW Other SEA OF GIANTS Peggy Williams SERVICE BUYS Leslie Haines STANDING ON GAZPROM'S SHOULDERS Other THE END OF PRODUCTION TARGETS? Other Companies in This Issue Companies in This Issue Company Briefs Additional briefs Canadian M&A Chesapeake buys another $830MM of Midcontinent gas Other Devon-Ocean combination to be stronger than parts Leslie Haines International M&A... U.S. M&A Completions BUYING AGAIN NISSA DARBONNE E&P Momentum LEASING & PERMITTING DATA Other Exploration Highlights EASTERN U.S. GULF COAST INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS MIDCONTINENT & PERMIAN BASIN WESTERN U.S. From the Editor-in-Chief THE IRAQI QUESTION? LESLIE HAINES New Financings New Financings - Equity/Debt table NewsWell CERA director says acquisitions can be bad for your company Nissa Darbonne Experts differ on effect of disruption of Iraqi oil output Leslie Haines Iraqi opportunity too big for TotalFinaElf alone Nissa Darbonne Mezzanine lending coming back to oil industry Other Money is available to the creditworthy companies, stories Other More than 120 offshore wind projects under study Other New European equity fund seeking oil, gas investments Other North Slope oil business has had some positive effect Other Producers analyzing information at Pemex's data rooms Leslie Haines Producers rush to lock in commodity prices Leslie Haines On the Money NEW FINANCING FACES Brian Toal Trends & Analysis Structural Tightness in the U.S. Natural Gas Market Tom Driscoll, Sergey Vasnetsov and Dhaval Patel, research analysts, Lehman Broth