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... 

Kosmos Energy’s Mahogany Deep-2 Well Offshore Ghana Successfully Appraises Greater Jubilee Area

Kosmos Energy announces today that the company’s Mahogany Deep-2 well on the West Cape Three Points Block offshore the Republic of Ghana has encountered light oil in three stratigraphic intervals and successfully appraised the greater Jubilee area. The Mahogany Deep-2 well was drilled about 3 kilometers (2 miles) west of the Mahogany-3 well, Kosmos’ Mahogany Deep discovery well, to appraise the... 

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RockBridge Update on BC Oil & Gas Properties Winter Program

RockBridge Energy Inc. announces that the operator of the Drake and Woodrush oil and gas properties in northern B.C., in which RockBridge has a working interest, has provided details of this winter’s planned capital program. The program includes drilling and initially completing a further Woodrush well as a flowing oil well targeting a new oil pool in the Halfway formation. The drilling is planned... 

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American Petro-Hunter to Purchase Texas Gas Production and Reports on Operations

American Petro-Hunter, Inc. announce that the Company has entered into an agreement whereby the Company intends to purchase production from two existing gas wells from Texas-based Oxalis Energy Group. Under the terms of the Letter of Intent (L.O.I.), the Company is currently undertaking a period of due diligence on the project with a thorough review of project data and well production history of this... 

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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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CREDO Announces Deeper Pool Discovery in Major County, Oklahoma

CREDO Petroleum Corporation announced a deeper pool discovery from the Hunton formation in its Ball #1-18 well. The 9,750-foot Ball well is located on the company’s 1,280 gross acre Pool\Proffitt prospect. Electric logs and drilling and completion data indicate that the Chester, Mississippian and Hunton formations are commercially productive. The company owns a 50% working interest and is the operator. The... 

BPZ Energy Announces Increases in Oil Reserves at the Corvina Field

BPZ Resources, Inc. announced that independent estimates by Netherland Sewell and Associates, Inc. (NSAI) as of December 31, 2008, for gross Proved (1P), Proved + Probable (2P) and Proved + Probable + Possible (3P) oil reserves from the Company’s Block Z-1 Corvina offshore field located in northwest Peru have increased 41%, 78% and 35%, respectively, as compared with the oil reserves reported by... 

Technip to Expand Its Subsea Umbilicals Facility in Angola

Technip confirms the expansion of its state-of-the-art Angoflex umbilical* manufacturing plant in Lobito, Angola to meet growing demand for longer length and larger diameter products on the West African market. Established in 2002, Angoflex is a joint venture between Technip and the Angolan national oil company Sonangol. On December 15, Bernard Di Tullio, Technip’s Chief Operating Officer, launched... 

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Saxon Oil Receives New Field Designation in New Mexico

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 first production in May 2008, which set allowable production at 350 barrels of... 

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Marathon Completes Sale of Its Interests in Heimdal Area Offshore Norway

Marathon Oil Corporation announced the completion of the sale of its non-operated interests in the Heimdal infrastructure, related producing fields and associated undeveloped acreage offshore Norway. Centrica plc, the parent company of British Gas, acquired the interests for a total value of $416 million, which includes a $375 million purchase price and $41 million in associated Norwegian asset tax...