Okla. City-based Mach Resources today announced a dandy of a deal with the acquisition of substantially all the assets from now-defunct Alta Mesa. For Mach CEO Tom L. Ward, the shoe simply fits in the comfort zone of the Anadarko Basin and the Texas Panhandle where Mach operates numerous other E&P acquisitions it’s made over the last two years. ...

What’s all the noise over buying some company stock? Well, when you’re the billionaire chairwoman of Houston-based Enterprise Products and you’ve just paid $25 million for close to one million shares, it tends to lift a few eyebrows. ...