Oil and Gas

Rooster Petroleum, LLC Commences Drilling at Eugene Island Block 28

Rooster Petroleum, LLC, is pleased to announce the commencement of drilling of the Rooster #A-3 Well. It is the first well to be drilled by the Company on Eugene Island Block 28. The planned total vertical depth of the well is 12,500 ft and is expected to take 30-40 days to drill and complete. The current infrastructure currently located on Block 28... 

Petrolia Progresses and Drills the Tar Point No. 1 Well

Petrolia announce that on Friday October 23 it spudded of the Petrolia Tar Point No 1 well. This well is the second in a series of six that the Company expects to complete in the Gaspe region over the next twelve months, in order to reach its objective of becoming Quebec’s first petroleum producer. Only a portion of the costs for the six wells... 

Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. Announces Pricing of Underwritten Public Offering of Common Stock

Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 12,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $2.20 per share. The offering is being made pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement that Kodiak filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 14, 2008. The net proceeds of the offering,... 

Geotrace Accelerates Oil and Gas Discovery With Isilon IQ

Isilon(R) Systems, the proven leader in scale-out NAS, today announced that Geotrace, a leading reservoir services provider, has deployed Isilon IQ to power a robust suite of seismic data processing and analysis applications used to accelerate worldwide oil and gas discovery. Using Isilon scale-out NAS, featuring its OneFS(R) operating system, Geotrace... 

The Linde Group to invest in largest air separation plant in India

The technology group The Linde Group today announced it will build and commission a state-of-the-art 2,550 tonnes per day (tpd) air separation unit (ASU) at Tata Steel Ltd’s plant in Jamshedpur, India. Tata Steel is one of the world’s leading steelmakers. Once commissioned in early 2012, this will be the largest air separation plant in India... 

Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. Announces Public Offering of Common Stock

Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. announced that it is commencing an offering of up to 10,000,000 shares of its common stock in a public offering. KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. is acting as the sole book runner for the offering and as the co-manager with Thomas Weisel Partners LLC. Proceeds of the offering will be used primarily for drilling and completion... 

Zion Oil Commences Drilling Operations on Its Elijah #3 Well

Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. a Delaware corporation, explores for oil and gas in Israel in areas located on-shore between Haifa and Tel Aviv announced that drilling operations have begun on its Elijah #3 well. Utilizing the 2,000 horsepower drilling rig used to drill Zion’s Ma’anit-Rehoboth #2 well, Zion has commenced drilling its Elijah #3... 

BPZ Energy to Transfer Listing to New York Stock Exchange

BPZ Resources, Inc. announces that it has received authorization to transfer the listing of its common stock from the NYSE Amex to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The Company anticipates trading of the common stock on the NYSE, under its current ticker symbol “BPZ,” will begin on October 26, 2009. Manolo Zuniga, President and Chief... 

Crosstex Energy Acquires Eunice Natural Gas Liquids Processing Plant, Fractionation Facility for $42 Million

The Crosstex Energy companies, Crosstex Energy, L.P. and Crosstex Energy, Inc., announced that the Partnership has acquired the Eunice natural gas liquids (NGLs) processing plant and fractionation facility from Phillip Morris for approximately $42 million, which includes $18 million of assumed debt. Previously, Crosstex managed the plant and facility,... 

Avro Energy Continues Work Programs in Northern Louisiana

Avro Energy, Inc. announce that further to the Company’s news release dated September 9, 2009, regarding the acquisition of the Muslow and Caddo Levee Board Leases in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, the Company has deferred payment for the leases until November 20, 2009, at which time $35,000 is due and payable, and an additional $35,000 is due and payable...