Derivatives marketplace CME Group, and Oman Investment Fund, a sovereign wealth fund of the Sultanate of Oman plan to increase their investments in the Dubai Mercantile Exchange to enable it to continue growing its business.

Houston-based Magnum Hunter Resources Corp. announced that the company’s borrowing base under its $350 million Senior Bank Facility, which consists of a $250 million senior revolving credit facility and a $100 million Term Loan Facility, has been increased by $35 million from $200 million to $235 million.

Billings, MT-based Voyager Oil & Gas has entered into a new $150 million credit facility with Macquarie Bank Ltd.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. provided details on its financial plan to fully fund the company’s anticipated capital expenditures during 2012 and provide additional liquidity for 2013.

Arab Petroleum Investments Corp., the multilateral development bank of the ten member states of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, has closed a three-year SAR 2.5 billion (US$667 million) syndicated Shari’ah-compliant facility from four Saudi Arabian banks.

Quicksilver Production Partners LP, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quicksilver Resources Inc., filed a registration statement February 10, 2012, on Form S-1 with the US SEC related to the proposed IPO of common units representing limited partner interests.

Following a rise in popularity in the oil and gas upstream sector in 2010, joint venture agreements played a dominant role as a source of low cost funding in 2011—with unconventional resources drawing the most attention, noted analyst at Stifel Nicolaus.

Houston-based private equity firm Quantum Energy Partners has once again formed a company to acquire US oil and gas properties, reports Bloomberg. Only this time, the newly-formed company will focus on offshore US oil fields.

D.A. Davidson & Co., a national full-service investment firm based in the Northwest, has acquired McGladrey Capital Markets LLC (MCM), an investment banking firm headquartered in Costa Mesa, California.