Petroleum Development Corporation today announced that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Steven R. Williams, will present to the investment community at the Independent Petroleum Association of America Oil & Gas Investment Symposium-West on Tuesday, October 3, 2006, at 12:40 p.m. ET via live audio webcast.
The live audio webcast of the presentation and accompanying slides can [...]

Watchit Media, Inc. announced today that the Company’s filing of its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2006 will be delayed beyond the SEC filing deadline. This delay is the result of the Company being unable to devote sufficient resources to the timely preparation and filing of such report without [...]

The Brunei National Petroleum Company Sdn Bhd (PetroleumBRUNEI) have appointed Awg Hj Mohd Jaafar bin Hj Awg Bakar as their new Chief Executive Officer, a press release from PetroleumBRUNEI stated.
Awg Hj Mohd Jaafar, who currently holds the position of Manager for Hydrocarbon Processing and Infrastructure Asset in Brunei Shell Petroleum Company Sdn Bhd will be [...]

India on Friday awarded coal bed methane (CBM) gas blocks to firms including British oil major BP Plc , Australia’s Arrow Energy , and India’s Reliance Energy Ltd. and Tata Power Co. Ltd. .
“The cabinet has accepted the recommendations of Empowered Committee of Secretaries and decided to award blocks according to their recommendations without any [...]

Verenex Energy Inc. is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Verenex Energy Area 47 Libya Limited, has commenced drilling the Company’s first exploration well in Libya, named A1-47/02, located in the southern part of Area 47. The well is being drilled by ODE Rig No.28 which is under a long term contract to [...]

Drilling for oil and gas will soon begin on one of New Mexico’s most controversial public lands, the Southeastern Otero Mesa.
For years, environmentalists promoted and fought to preserve the Otero Mesa for years, but a Federal Judge in Albuquerque has allowed drilling to begin on 5% of the two million wildlife rich acres.
Bureau of [...]

Gastar Exploration Ltd. is pleased to provide an operational update on recent drilling and completion activities on its PEL 238 property located in New South Wales, Australia.
PEL 238 DRILLING PROGRAM
Gastar, along with Eastern Star Gas Limited (ASX:ESG - News), the operator of the PEL 238 Gunnedah Basin Coal Seam Gas Joint Venture, has recently [...]

Denver, CO - American Oil & Gas Inc., reports that drilling activity has commenced in its Goliath project with the spudding of the Evertson AOG Champion 1-25H well. According to American Oil & Gas Inc., in this well, in which American owns a 50% working interest, is located in Williams County, North Dakota and is [...]

Chinese Petroleum Corp. of Taiwan has signed an agreement with the state of Alaska and an Alaskan firm to fund a $1.5 million preliminary feasibility study for an 80,000-barrel-per-day coal-to-liquids fuels plant near the Beluga coal fields on the west side of Cook Inlet, in Southcentral Alaska.
Mike Barry, chairman of the Alaska Industrial Development and [...]

The governor says safety is his top priority. He spoke of the recent tragedies, as well as the accomplishments the coal industry has made, when it comes to safety. Also at the conference today, a commission the governor and his staff have been working very closely with, revealed new information. The Commission on Mine [...]