Sasol Petroleum Sofala, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sasol Petroleum International, has completed its first exploration well, Njika-1, in Block 16/19 in Mozambique. The well is located in waters at a depth of 460 meters and was drilled to a total depth of 1615 meters. The well accessed the predicted targets and measurements indicate the [...]
Saxon Oil Company Ltd. has received a new field designation from New Mexico regulatory authorities for its Eumont State No. 1 oil discovery in Lea County, New Mexico. New Mexico designated the Eumont well as the discovery well in the Urssey Tank: Yates-Seven Rivers Pool. Special pool rules are in effect from the date of [...]
Vortex 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 the fourth well, the management of Vortex has decided to move forward with exercising the option to drill its [...]
Miller Petroleum, Inc. announced that it had finalized a drilling contract with Atlas Energy Resources, LLC. This is a two year agreement that will utilize two Miller drilling rigs operating in the East Tennessee area of the Appalachian Basin.
Miller CEO Scott M. Boruff commented that, “This contract solidifies our relationship with Atlas who is one [...]
Mogul Energy International, Inc. announced its plans to begin drilling on the exploration program involving the Walpole properties located in eastern Saskatchewan. Mogul has contracted the company CODECO to complete this drill program. Mogul Energy representative stated, “The licensing on the first drill location is complete and we expect the second drill location licensing process [...]
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. announced in response to the recent sharp decline in molybdenum prices plans to reduce production from its Henderson primary molybdenum mine and to defer the restart of the Climax molybdenum mine.
Molybdenum markets have been strong in recent years, averaging $30 per pound in 2007 and $33 per pound in the [...]
Silvermet Inc. has entered into an Agreement to acquire Metoks Madencilik Metalurji Tasimacilik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (”Metoks”), the owner of a Waelz kiln in Turkey that processes electric arc furnace dust (”EAFD”) to recover its zinc content. The purchase price is US $9 million. Silvermet will assume the Metoks liabilities of US $4.9 million [...]
Tethys Petroleum Limited announced that its AKK16 exploration well has tested gas at a rate in excess of 10.2 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) (290.2 thousand cubic metres per day (Mcm/d)). This discovery has now been named the “South-East Akkulka” gas accumulation. Tethys also announced that it has acquired additional drilling and operations equipment.
Exploration [...]
VIPR Industries Inc. announces that it has executed a term-sheet for the acquisition of revenue producing Vancouver B.C. based Zereko Inc. and its highly touted proprietary IVAC Industrial unit. Some of Zereko’s current clients include notable companies such as General Motors, Inco, and Falconbridge among several others.
VIPR Industries has been in the process of reviewing [...]
Storm Cat Energy Corporation reported that it failed to make its required quarterly interest payment when due on September 30, 2008, and such failure has continued for a period of 30 days, with respect to its Series A and Series B Subordinated Convertible Notes each due March 31, 2012. The failure of Storm Cat to [...]
