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Looking to expand the types of customers it serves, AGL Resources announced Monday that it is acquiring Compass Energy Services Inc., a privately held Richmond, VA-based commercial and industrial energy services company.

Denver-based Gasco Energy gained a partner in its Riverbend Project in the Uinta Basin of Utah after privately held NFR Energy LLC agreed to participate in a 30-well program in return for an interest in some of the wells. Once the program is completed, NFR will earn 67% of Gasco’s interest in 1,200 gross acres.

International Oil & Gas Holdings Corp. (IOGH) has agreed to acquire three privately owned oil and gas companies with proven and potential reserves of more than 1 Bcf in Ohio, the company said last Thursday.

International Oil & Gas Holdings Corp. (IOGH) has agreed to acquire three privately owned oil and gas companies with proven and potential reserves of more than 1 Bcf in Ohio, the company said Thursday.

Denver-based independent Teton Energy Corp. has formed a drilling partnership with privately held Targe Energy Exploration & Production LLC to evaluate acreage in the Frenchman Creek prospect of the eastern Denver-Julesburg (D-J) Basin of Nebraska, an area that Teton suspects may yield up to 20 Bcf gross of natural gas resource potential.

Denver-based independent Teton Energy Corp. has formed a drilling partnership with privately held Targe Energy Exploration & Production LLC to evaluate acreage in the Frenchman Creek prospect of the eastern Denver-Julesburg (D-J) Basin of Nebraska, an area that Teton suspects may yield up to 20 Bcf gross of natural gas resource potential.

Online energy exchange World Energy Solutions Inc. made a deal last week to pay $5 million in cash and offer 5.375 million of its shares to buy privately held EnergyGateway LLC, which brokers natural gas and electricity online for commercial and industrial (C&I) consumers in the United States.

Online energy exchange World Energy Solutions Inc. said Thursday it will pay $5 million in cash and 5.375 million of its shares to buy privately held EnergyGateway LLC, which brokers natural gas and electricity online for commercial and industrial (C&I) consumers in the United States.

Trans Energy Inc., a small-cap producer that repositioned itself last year, on Tuesday agreed to a joint venture with an affiliate of privately held Republic Energy Inc. — one of the Barnett Shale’s long-time operators — to develop deep shale natural gas reserves in northern West Virginia. Financial details were not disclosed.