Terra Energy & Resource Technologies Completes an Exploration Services Project

February 17, 2010 Filed Under: Oil and Gas  
Terra Energy & Resource Technologies Completes an Exploration Services Project

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 Completes Acquisition of Seajacks International

January 21, 2010 Filed Under: Mining Services, Mining Stocks, Oil and Gas  
Riverstone Completes Acquisition of Seajacks International

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 Announces $2.25 Billion Barnett Shale Joint Venture with Total E&P USA, Inc.

January 4, 2010 Filed Under: Mining Investment, Oil and Gas  
Chesapeake Energy Corporation Announces $2.25 Billion Barnett Shale Joint Venture with Total E&P USA, Inc.

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: Tajikistan Joint Venture Finalised

December 31, 2009 Filed Under: Mining Investment, Mining Stocks, Oil and Gas  
Tethys Petroleum Limited: Tajikistan Joint Venture Finalised

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... 

Exploration for Rubies, Gold and Marble in Cambodia

December 8, 2009 Filed Under: Mining Investment, Mining Services, Precious Metal  
Exploration for Rubies, Gold and Marble in Cambodia

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 Reports Encouraging Initial Results From Oil Seeps Study of Offshore Guinea Concession Area

November 19, 2009 Filed Under: Oil and Gas  
Hyperdynamics Reports Encouraging Initial Results From Oil Seeps Study of Offshore Guinea Concession Area

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 Announces Partnership Update for Its Closed VIII Drilling Program

November 4, 2009 Filed Under: Oil and Gas  
Aztec Announces Partnership Update for Its Closed VIII Drilling Program

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 Commences Drilling Operations on Its Elijah #3 Well

October 21, 2009 Filed Under: Oil and Gas  
Zion Oil Commences Drilling Operations on Its Elijah #3 Well

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 Continues Work Programs in Northern Louisiana

October 20, 2009 Filed Under: Oil and Gas  
Avro Energy Continues Work Programs in Northern Louisiana

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 Exploration Projects Update New Large Funded Joint Venture With JOGMEC

October 9, 2009 Filed Under: Lithium Mining, Platinum Group Metals  
Platinum Exploration Projects Update New Large Funded Joint Venture With JOGMEC

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...