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Vol. 9, No. 22 Week of May 30, 2004
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


Forest Oil acquires Wiser Oil in $330 million deal

Over last year, including Wiser, Forest has acquired roughly 515 bcf of gas equivalent reserves, 360,000 undeveloped acres

Ray Tyson

Petroleum News Houston Correspondent

Denver’s Forest Oil is staying true to its play-it-safer approach to growing the company, acquiring Dallas-based Wiser Oil in a $330-million merger that provides Forest with lots of additional proved reserves and production and little in the way of risky frontier exploration acreage. That’s just fi....

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Wiser strong in Canada

Forest will finance with stock, borrowing and cash on hand


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