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Royal Dutch Shell (Shell), through its subsidiary Swepi, agreed to acquire 618,000 net acres in the southern Delaware Basin portion of the Permian Basin in west Texas, US, from Chesapeake Energy Corporation (Chesapeake) for a purchase consideration of $1.94 billion. Chesapeake intends to use the proceeds of the sale to repay its $4-billion term loans during Q4 2012. Jefferies & Company and Goldman, Sachs & Co. are acting as financial advisors to Chesapeake for the transaction.

EPL Oil & Gas, Inc. (EPL) agreed to acquire interest in certain shallow water oil and gas assets in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) from Hilcorp Energy GOM Holdings, LLC (Hilcorp), for a purchase consideration of $550m. The transaction has an effective date of July 1, 2012.

ExxonMobil Corporation (Exxon), through its wholly-owned subsidiary XTO Energy Inc. (XTO), agreed to acquire Bakken shale assets in North Dakota and Montana from Denbury Onshore, LLC, a subsidiary of Denbury Resources Inc. (Denbury), for a purchase consideration of $1.6 billion in cash. In addition to the cash consideration, Denbury will receive Exxon’s interests in the Hartzog Draw field in Wyoming and Webster field in Texas. The transaction will have an effective date of July 1, 2012. According to the terms of the deal, Denbury will receive $1.6 billion in cash as well as operating interests in the Webster field (south east Texas) and Hartzog Draw field (north east Wyoming) from Exxon in exchange for the Bakken assets. Furthermore, Denbury has agreed to acquire incremental CO2 from the LaBarge field owned by Exxon or purchase an interest in the CO2 reserve of the field.

Twin Butte Energy Ltd (TBE) agreed to acquire Waseca Energy Inc (Waseca) from Sprott Resource Corp (SRC), and Waseca’s shareholders, for a purchase consideration of approximately CAD134.5m ($136.3m) or CAD1.35 ($1.36) per share in cash. The consideration will comprise a minimum of CAD32.2m ($32.63m) and a maximum of CAD58.9m ($59.7m) in cash (assuming the Waseca options and performance shares are arranged in accordance with the arrangement agreement) and a minimum of 28.9 million and a maximum of 39 million in TBE common shares depending on elections between cash and shares made by Waseca shareholders. In the transaction, the shareholders of Waseca will receive 0.5133 TBE shares for each Waseca share held, based on the 10 day volume weighted average trading price of TBE as on August 31, 2012 at CAD2.63 ($2.66) per share.

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Healthcare, Regulatory and Reimbursement Landscape - Canada report is an essential source of information and an analysis on the healthcare, regulatory, and reimbursement landscape of Canada. The report identifies the key trends in the Canadian healthcare market, and also provides insights on the demographic, regulatory, and reimbursement landscape, as well as the healthcare infrastructure. Most importantly, the report provides valuable insights on the trends and segmentation of the pharmaceutical and medical devices markets. This report was developed using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, secondary research, and in-house analysis by GlobalData’s team of industry experts.

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Hemorrhagic Shock Global Clinical Trials Review, H2, 2012 provides data on the Hemorrhagic Shock clinical trial scenario. This report provides elemental information and data relating to the clinical trials on Hemorrhagic Shock. It includes an overview of the trial numbers and their recruitment status as per the site of trial conduction across the globe. The databook offers a preliminary coverage of disease clinical trials by their phase, trial status, prominence of the sponsors and also provides briefing pertaining to the number of trials for the key drugs for treating Hemorrhagic Shock. This report is built using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research and in-house analysis by GlobalData's team of industry experts.

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