Terra Energy & Resource Technologies, Inc., a natural resource exploration technology company, has completed an exploration services project for oil and gas in Nevada under a contract with Golden Eagle Alliance, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company. The contract entailed the application of STeP®, Terra’s proprietary remote sensing exploration technology, with the objective being to...
Riverstone Holdings LLC’s most recent renewable energy fund has successfully completed its previously announced acquisition of Seajacks International, for a total cash consideration of US$207 million. Seajacks is now wholly-owned by Riverstone and the management team. Seajacks currently owns and operates two self-propelled jack up vessels out of Great Yarmouth in the United Kingdom: the Seajacks...
Chesapeake Energy Corporation announced the execution of an agreement for a $2.25 billion joint venture with Total E&P USA, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Total S.A. (NYSE:TOT, FP:FP) (“Total”), whereby Total will acquire a 25% interest in Chesapeake’s upstream Barnett Shale assets. Total will pay $800 million in cash at closing and will pay an additional $1.45 billion by funding 60%...
Tethys Petroleum Limited announced that the joint venture relating to its Tajik projects previously announced in December 2007 has now been completed and that its interests in Tajikistan have therefore been transferred to its joint venture company Seven Stars Energy Corporation (“SSEC”). The completion of this deal had been waiting on the resolution of certain commercial and business issues...
Terra Energy & Resource Technologies, Inc., a natural resource exploration services technology company, announces that the Company completed two projects for gold, rubies and marble exploration in Cambodia utilizing its innovative proprietary technology STeP®. Both service contracts were awarded to Terra by The Millennium International Group, LLC, which has subsequently requested the Company...
Hyperdynamics Corporation today announced that it has received encouraging preliminary results from an oil seeps study of the company’s 31,000-square-mile oil and gas concession offshore Guinea. The survey was conducted by TDI-Brooks International of College Station, Texas. “We conducted this study to survey projected sites of oil seepage in three areas of our concession,” said Ray...
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...
Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. a Delaware corporation, explores for oil and gas in Israel in areas located on-shore between Haifa and Tel Aviv announced that drilling operations have begun on its Elijah #3 well. Utilizing the 2,000 horsepower drilling rig used to drill Zion’s Ma’anit-Rehoboth #2 well, Zion has commenced drilling its Elijah #3 well toward the Triassic geological formation, which...
Avro Energy, Inc. announce that further to the Company’s news release dated September 9, 2009, regarding the acquisition of the Muslow and Caddo Levee Board Leases in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, the Company has deferred payment for the leases until November 20, 2009, at which time $35,000 is due and payable, and an additional $35,000 is due and payable on December 20, 2009. This extension allows...
Platinum Group Metals Ltd. provides the following updates on its platinum projects including a second new joint venture with Japan Oil Gas and Metals National Corporation (“JOGMEC”), owned by the government of Japan, covering a new 118 square kilometres platinum exploration area. R. Michael Jones, President of Platinum Group Metals, said, “Our main focus right now is on advancing...