世界石油

（彭博社）据路透社报道，总部位于俄克拉荷马城的石油和天然气公司德文能源公司 (Devon Energy Corp.) 正在就收购总部位于卡尔加里的钻探公司 Enerplus Corp. 进行谈判。

路透社援引匿名消息人士的话称，两家公司尚未达成协议。在此之前，随着公司努力安排未来的钻探地点，美国石油领域最近发生了一系列大型交易。投资者也渴望看到合并，因为勘探者可以通过配对和组装连续的钻探位置来节省资金。

Enerplus 股价飙升 10%。该公司市值约为 41 亿美元，主要在北达科他州巴肯页岩盆地和宾夕法尼亚州马塞勒斯地区运营。

德文郡是美国最大的独立页岩勘探公司之一，在美国五个盆地开展业务，其中以德克萨斯州和新墨西哥州的二叠纪盆地为首。收购 Enerplus 将补充其在北达科他州的业务。

十月份，彭博社报道称，德文郡正在寻找主要收购目标。据知情人士透露，当时该公司已与 Marathon Oil Corp. 进行了初步谈判，并分别考虑收购 CrownRock LP。

西方石油公司 (Occidental Petroleum Corp.) 去年 12 月达成协议，以约 108 亿美元收购 CrownRock。

World Oil

(Bloomberg) – Devon Energy Corp., an Oklahoma City-based oil and gas company, is in talks to acquire Calgary-based driller Enerplus Corp., Reuters reported.

The companies have not come to an agreement, Reuters said, citing anonymous sources. It comes on the heels of a string of recent megadeals in the U.S. oil patch as companies push to line up future drilling sites.  Investors are eager to see mergers too as explorers can save money by pairing up and assembling contiguous drilling positions.

Enerplus shares surged as much as 10%. The company, which has a market value of about $4.1 billion, operates primarily in the Bakken shale basin of North Dakota and in the Marcellus region in Pennsylvania.

Devon is one of the biggest independent shale explorers in the U.S., with operations in five U.S. basins, led by its presence in the Permian basin of Texas and New Mexico. Buying Enerplus would complement its operations in North Dakota.

In October, Bloomberg reported that Devon was on the hunt for major acquisition targets. At the time, the company had held preliminary talks with Marathon Oil Corp. and separately was eying CrownRock LP, according to people familiar with the matter.

Occidental Petroleum Corp. reached an agreement in December to buy CrownRock for about $10.8 Billion.