Houston, TX-based Rosetta Resources Inc. has closed on the previously announced acquisition of Permian Basin assets from Comstock Resources Inc.

MarkWest Energy Partners LP (NYSE: MWE) has agreed to acquire 100% of the ownership interests of certain midstream assets in the Anadarko Basin from a wholly owned subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK), for $245 million in cash. The transaction closed simultaneously with the execution of the agreements.

Eagle Rock Energy Partners LP (Nasdaq:EROC) has entered into a new fee-based Gas Gathering, Processing and Purchase Agreement with Monarch Natural Gas LLC, who has offices in Austin, Dallas, and Denver.

Kirk D. Tholen has joined Crédit Agricole Securities as the group head of the firm’s A&D Advisory platform within the Global Energy Group. 

Opportune LLP has acquired Eco Risk Markets LLC, an energy consulting firm focused on risk strategy and related valuation services.

Investors from outside the United States are playing an increasingly vital role in the US tight oil and shale natural gas industry, according to the US Energy Information Administration.

Fort Worth, Texas-based Quicksilver Resources Inc. [NYSE: KWK] said March 29 that it has agreed to sell an undivided 25% interest in its Barnett Shale oil and gas assets for US$485 million to TG Barnett Resources LP, a wholly-owned US subsidiary of Tokyo Gas Co. Ltd.

With three major deals in a month and a half, the Eagle Ford shale formation remains significant in the unconventional resources space.

The second most valuable industry to the Norwegian economy after oil and gas production is the Norwegian oil service sector. Making a standing start in the 1970s, this sector today generates $63 billion in revenues with 40 percent ($26 billion) of that figure coming from the sale of Norwegian technologies to foreign markets.