Epsilon Energy Ltd., announced that it had purchased 1,000,000 of its Common Shares through a combination of open market and block trades at an average cost of $0.83 per Common Share between October 1, 2008 and November 7, 2008. Under terms of the Normal Course Issuer Bid approved by the Toronto Stock Exchange (”TSX”) on [...]

Ryland Oil Corporation provide an update on its exploration activities on its 345,000 gross and net acres in SE Saskatchewan. The Company has commenced its multi-rig, 13 well drilling program which was previously announced, and is on track. In addition to continuing to explore the unconventional reservoirs targeted in previous drilling activity, Ryland has [...]

The U.S. Geological Survey has released an assessment of the Bakken Formation, which stretches across 25,000 square miles from northeastern Montana across northwestern North Dakota and up into the southern region of Saskatchewan.
The last USGS study, completed in 1995, estimated the Bakken Formation had 150 million barrels of undiscovered technically recoverable oil. Thirteen years later, [...]

A shale formation stretching North Dakota and Montana may have an estimated 3 to 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil, according to a U.S. Geological Survey assessment.
Known as the Bakken Formation, the find would make the recoverable oil in North Dakota and Montana the largest U.S. oil reserves outside Alaska.
The recently released assessment shows [...]