From a standing start with a few leases in East Texas, Guma Aguiar and Leor Energy found themselves in the right place at the right time. The multi-trillion cubic-foot Amoruso Field was the result.

Houston-based ATP Oil & Gas Corp. has created a valuable asset out of a marginal deepwater field in the Gulf of Mexico. The Gomez Field is in approximately 3,000 feet of water on Mississippi Canyon Block 711.

As Southwestern Energy Co. steps up its well count in Arkansas, it has stepped up its support of communities in and around its Fayetteville shale play.

When MLP BreitBurn bought all of the Antrim and New Albany shale assets of Quicksilver Resources, it instantly more than doubled in size and gained a significant equity partner.

John Pinkerton addresses Range Resources’ award-winning investor-relations practices, its plans for developing its emerging plays and its five-year streak of consecutive production growth.

In six weeks during last fall’s credit crisis, Milagro Exploration raised
$825 million and transformed itself, proving industry relationships matter
as much as assets or deal structures.

Contrarian prospector Contango Oil & Gas has discovered more than half a trillion cubic feet of proved and probable gas reserve in shallow waters on the Gulf of Mexico shelf.