…  joint venture transaction with StatoilHydro. Chesapeake sold a 32.5% interest in its Marcellus Shale assets in Appalachia for $3.375 …  StatoilHydro funding 75% of Chesapeake’s 67.5% share of drilling and completion expenditures until the $2.125 billion obligation has …

…  announced today that it has initiated coverage of GMX Resources, Inc.. “GMX Resources is embarking on an aggressive drilling …  acreage in the budding Haynesville Shale gas play of East Texas,” said Joel Musante, Senior Research Analyst with the firm. C. K. …

…  drilled by Gastar in the deep Bossier play. The well also encountered two middle Bossier sands, including the Lanier Sand, in a …  of 21 MMcf per day.” In addition, Gastar is currently drilling a sidetrack to the LOR #7 and expects to reach total depth close to …

…  Resources Corp. announce that it is exercising the option to drill its fifth well in Adams-Baggett Field in Crockett County, Texas. After successfully drilling three wells in the Adams-Baggett area and awaiting the results from …

…  Minister for the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources. While the permanent Minister is yet to be appointed, the Pakistan …  fabrication of processing facilities based in Houston, Texas, with manufacturing facilities in Houston, Texas, United Arab Emirates …

…  Resources, Inc., a uranium exploration, development, mining and production …  Department granted URI a permit to conduct exploratory drilling in the Ambrosia Lake area, where the company has approximately 2.4 …  has safely mined, over seven million pounds of uranium in Texas during this period.” said Mr. Van Horn. “This permit will allow us to …

…  and Latigo Petroleum. Lariat was founded in 1997 and sold in 2001 to Newfield Exploration Company for approximately $333 million, …  exploration and development drilling program over its Texas Panhandle and Oklahoman Anadarko Basin properties. In addition, Laredo’s …

…  announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Surge Energy Resources, Inc., has concluded leasing approximately 640 acres in Crane County, Texas at a cost of about $140,000. Surge plans on drilling its first oil & gas …

…  Administration degree in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin. Pride International, Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, is one of the world’s largest offshore drilling contractors, operating a fleet of 45 offshore rigs, including two …  27 jackups and four managed deepwater rigs. The company also has four ultra-deepwater drillships under …

…  where drilling activity will commence in early 2009. Also, XTO has spudded its first two horizontal Haynesville Shale wells on …  in the United States. Its properties are concentrated in Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Wyoming, Colorado, Alaska, Utah, …