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EVEP - EV Energy Partners, L.P. IPO Opens for Trading EVEP - EV Energy Partners, L.P. priced today (09/27/06) at $20 (middle of its initial $19-21 range) and opened at $20.10. Its shares closed at $19.75, down $0.21 (-1.05%). EV Energy Partners is a natural gas and oil production company which operates gas wells in the Appalachian Basin, primarily in West Virginia and Ohio, as [...].
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