| | EnCana-Texas, Bgt 1st Writethru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | EnCana (TSX:ECA) will buy interests in a 2,680 square kilometre exploration block in the Maverick Basin along the Mexican border held by the Exploration Co. of San Antonio, Tex. "In recent years we have established new basin positions in certain locations in Texas," EnCana spokesman Alan Boras said Tuesday. |
 | | Theal said that while EnCana was keen to be a bigger natural gas producer in Texas, competition is tough and lands are hard to acquire since the state is a key focus area for U.S. rivals like Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy (TSX:DVN) and Houston-based Anadarko Petroleum (TSX:APC). |
 | | EnCana, with about 4,200 employees, has now sold more than $10 billion Cdn of assets since early 2002, when the company was created by the merger of the former Canadian Pacific-owned PanCanadian Petroleum and Alberta Energy Co. |
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