Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp., an oil and gas exploration and production company with assets in the Green River Basin of southwest Wyoming and Colorado and the Williston Basin of North Dakota and Montana, today provided a Vermillion Basin production update and announced the pending completion of rig mobilization in its Bakken oil play.
Vermillion Basin [...]

West Canyon Energy Corp., a Houston-based energy exploration and production company focused on high impact energy prospects in the continental United States, announced today that it has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire one-hundred percent (100%) working interest, in the Spring Creek Prospect.
On March 25, 2008 we entered into a letter of intent [...]

Double Eagle Petroleum Co. has reported an update concerning its projects at the Atlantic Rim, Pinedale, South Fillmore, Nevada, Cow Creek Deep and Christmas Meadows.
At the Atlantic Rim of the Washakie Basin, Double Eagle still expects to spend approximately $40 million in 2007 drilling at our Cow Creek Field, for which we are the operator, [...]

“The Florida-based UPDA (www.updastock.com) is doing its part to help the U.S. become more energy independent by buying and leasing U.S. properties with proven oil reserves, applying state-of-the-art technology, and pumping out sought-after oil and natural gas. “Americans use over 20 million barrels of oil a day, over half of which is imported,” said Abdullah. [...]

Universal Property Development and Acquisition Corporation subsidiary Canyon Creek Oil and Gas, Inc., has returned its Archer County Regular Field and Coleman County oil and gas field to production while the Catlin Oil and Gas, Inc. subsidiary completes the workover of the Catlin Field and continues to increase the production from its wells in [...]

A massive Beaufort County strip-mining operation wants to expand its extraction of phosphate ore in one of the state’s most environmentally fragile areas.
The proposal by PCS Phosphate, if approved, would represent the single largest destruction of wetlands permitted in the state — 2,500 acres including the headwaters of seven creeks near the Pamlico River.
The rich [...]

Less than half the area on top of and below the Roan Plateau would be opened to natural gas drilling, according to a management plan released Thursday. The remainder would see protections designed to preserve wildlife, views and rare plants.
With the western flank of the Roan Plateau in view, Bureau of Land Management officials unveiled [...]