Aztec Oil & Gas, Inc. announced the progress of two of its partnerships formed under the Aztec VIII Oil & Gas Drilling Program which is now closed to subscriptions. The Aztec VIII-B Partnership closed June 17, 2009 and the Aztec VIII-C Partnership closed on August 31, 2009. Aztec Energy LLC acts as Managing General Partner for both partnerships and Aztec Drilling & Operating LLC acts...
U.S. Energy Corp., a natural resources exploration and development company with interests in molybdenum, oil and gas, geothermal, and real estate assets, today announced that it has entered into a third Participation Agreement with Houston, Texas-based Houston Energy L.P. to acquire a 25% working interest in an oil prospect located in southeast Louisiana. Houston Energy has estimated that the prospect...
U.S. Energy Corp., a natural resources exploration and development company with interests in molybdenum, oil and gas, geothermal, and real estate assets, today announced that it has entered into an additional Participation Agreement with Houston, Texas-based Houston Energy L.P. (HE) to acquire a 11.11% working interest in an oil and gas prospect located in Southeast Texas. HE, a privately held independent...
A new report from BENTEK Energy examines the consequences of rapidly changing natural gas market conditions in the Northeast resulting from continuing increases in domestic production, new pipeline infrastructure and shifts in the sources of natural gas imports. Just issued, Part 3 of BENTEK’s “Catch the Wave™” Market Alert series illustrates important Northeast market developments...
Gateway Energy Corporation announced that it has acquired a 9.1% net profits interest in certain leases and wells in the Madisonville, Texas gas field for $762,450. The effective date of the acquisition is September 1, 2008. The NPI covers production from certain identified leases and wells owned by operated by Redwood Energy Production, L.P. (“Redwood”) in the Madisonville Field insofar...
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation announced that its Marcellus initiative in northeastern Pennsylvania is gaining momentum and is currently producing over 13 Mcfe per day. Most recently, Cabot completed its first Marcellus horizontal well with a measured depth of 8,925′ and a horizontal leg at 2,000′ using a six-stage frac. The result was a 24-hour average initial production rate of 6.4...
Superior Well Services, Inc. announced that it has closed its previously announced acquisition of certain oilfield service assets from Diamondback Holdings, LLC, a privately-owned company. Superior acquired Diamondback’s pressure pumping, fluid logistics and completion, production and rental tools business lines for $225 million in total consideration, subject to certain post-closing adjustments....
XTO Energy Inc. announced production results from wells drilled in multiple regions on its newly acquired property base. In the Bakken Shale play of North Dakota, the Company has now completed 5 wells with average production rates of 673 barrels of oil equivalent per day, primarily producing from the Middle Bakken shale section. In addition, a Three Forks/Sanish discovery well, the DeAngelis 41x-21,...
Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. and Avista Capital Partners announced that they have entered into a joint venture to pursue growth opportunities in the Marcellus Shale. Under the terms of the agreement, Carrizo and Avista have each committed to contribute up to $150 million in cash and properties to acquire and develop acreage in the Marcellus Shale play, including the dedication of all of their respective...
Entessa Inc. — the leading provider of Oil and Gas Logistics Management Solutions — delivered Release 5.0 of its Synthesis(TM) enterprise software suite to Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P.. The introduction of crude gathering pipeline support now enables Sunoco Logistics Partners to manage the entire order-to-cash logistics for its Western pipeline operations with Synthesis. Entessa is pleased...