Terra Announces Acquisition of Alberta Oil Assets

Terra Ventures Inc. announces that its newly incorporated and wholly-owned Calgary based subsidiary, Terrex Energy Inc. (“Terrex”), has entered into a purchase and sale agreement to acquire a 100% interest in a basal quartz oil pool in central Alberta from a private oil and gas company, for a purchase price of $650,000. The pool is currently producing approximately 80 barrels of oil equivalent... 

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%... 

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Geotrace Accelerates Oil and Gas Discovery With Isilon IQ

Isilon(R) Systems, the proven leader in scale-out NAS, today announced that Geotrace, a leading reservoir services provider, has deployed Isilon IQ to power a robust suite of seismic data processing and analysis applications used to accelerate worldwide oil and gas discovery. Using Isilon scale-out NAS, featuring its OneFS(R) operating system, Geotrace has created a single global namespace for both... 

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Kodiak Energy, Inc. and Subsidiary Cougar Energy, Inc. Announces Closing of Property Acquisition

Kodiak Energy, Inc. announces that its majority controlled subsidiary, Cougar Energy, Inc. (Cougar), has closed the property acquisition previously announced on August 11, 2009 consisting of wells, facilities and production from a private company with operations in and adjacent to the CREEnergy project. Additional information on the property acquisition is on our website at http://www.kodiakpetroleum.com/s/AdditionalProjects.asp. The... 

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U.S. Energy Corp. Announces Initial Production Results From Their Stoddard #1 Well in Texas

U.S. Energy Corp. a natural resources exploration and development company with interests in molybdenum, oil and gas, and real estate assets, today announced that its partner, Houston Energy, L.P. (“HE”) has advised the company that an initial production test from the Stoddard #1 well (first well drilled with HE) in Southeast Texas resulted in approximately 3.9 MMCF and 240 barrels of oil... 

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Minera Andes initiates exploration on 100%-owned targets in Argentina

Minera Andes Inc. announce exploration plans for two principal areas in Argentina. 1) Santa Cruz province where the Corporation’s San Jose mine is located and 2) San Juan province, site of the Corporation’s recent Los Azules copper discovery. The target in Santa Cruz province is high-grade epithermal gold-silver mineralization. In San Juan province porphyry-style copper mineralization is... 

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Vantex Acquires One Exploration Permit for Oil and Natural Gas in the Moose River Basin

The management of Vantex resources Ltd has obtained one exploration permit for oil and natural gas in the Quebec portion of the Moose River Basin, located in the James Bay Lowlands. The permit covers an area of 25,000 hectares. The Salomon Lake oil seep, found within the exploration permit, is characterized by a milky white to greenish film on the surface of numerous ponds south of Salomon Lake (Salomon... 

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InterOil Closes U.S.$70.4 Million Registered Direct Common Stock Offering

InterOil Corporation announced it has closed its previously announced 2,013,815 share common stock “registered direct” offering. InterOil has received gross proceeds of U.S.$70,443,249 before deducting offering expenses. Phil Mulacek, Chief Executive Officer of InterOil, commenting on the transaction said, “The opportunity presented by the Elk/Antelope discovery and surrounding prospects... 

Probe Announces Joint Venture in East Cameron Area

Probe Resources Ltd. an oil and natural gas exploration and production company announce that it has entered into a joint venture (JV) with Petrodome Energy, LLC and certain other parties for the drilling of its East Cameron 37 prospect. The prospect is adjacent to and will be drilled from the same surface location as Probe’s previously announced East Cameron 36 discovery. The terms of the JV... 

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Kria Resources Update on Business Combination with Beartooth Platinum

Kria Resources announces that it continues to work together with Beartooth Platinum to finish preparations of the management information circular relating to the proposed business combination of Beartooth and Kria. Beartooth expects to hold a shareholders’ meeting in or about the middle of March. The exact date will be announced once it has been established. As per Beartooth’s press release... 

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