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

December 23, 2009 Filed Under: Oil and Gas  
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... 

Royal Dutch Shell plc: New Accounting Segmentation

September 28, 2009 Filed Under: Oil and Gas  
Royal Dutch Shell plc: New Accounting Segmentation

Royal Dutch Shell plc has implemented, as from 1 July, 2009, a series of changes to senior management roles and responsibilities. Accounting disclosure segmentation, as from the third quarter 2009, will reflect the new organisational structure. These changes will reduce Shell’s administrative costs, simplify the presentation of Shell’s financial results, and at the same time provide additional... 

Cobra Oil & Gas Announces Technical Update On Utah Oil Sands Project

August 24, 2009 Filed Under: Oil and Gas  
Cobra Oil & Gas Announces Technical Update On Utah Oil Sands Project

Cobra Oil & Gas Company announce that the company has been granted a non-exclusive license to utilize the In-situ Combustion (ISC) for use on the Utah Oil Sands Project. Subject to the terms and conditions of the agreement, Enercor Inc. (Enercor), hereby grants Cobra a non-exclusive, non transferable license to use ISC for the purpose of extracting oil from heavy deposits in which Cobra has a... 

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

August 24, 2009 Filed Under: Oil and Gas  
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... 

Murphy Oil Announces Samurai Discovery in the Gulf of Mexico

June 24, 2009 Filed Under: Oil and Gas  
Murphy Oil Announces Samurai Discovery in the Gulf of Mexico

Murphy Oil Corporation announced an oil discovery at the Samurai prospect located in Green Canyon Block 432 in the Gulf of Mexico. The well was drilled in approximately 3,400 feet of water to a total depth of near 31,700 feet. The well encountered in excess of 120 feet of net pay in high quality Miocene Sands. Murphy holds a 33.33% working interest in the discovery. Other equal partners include the... 

Commencement of Bowmore Appraisal Well Drilling Operations in UK North Sea

June 22, 2009 Filed Under: Oil and Gas  
Commencement of Bowmore Appraisal Well Drilling Operations in UK North Sea

Stratic Energy Corporation, a Canadian-incorporated international oil and gas business focused on adding value principally through the appraisal, development and production of existing discoveries, supplemented by a low to moderate risk exploration program announces that operator Nippon Oil Exploration and Production U.K. Limited commenced drilling operations on the 15/24a-J Bowmore appraisal well... 

TAMM Oil and Gas Corp. Acquires Additional 5,000 Acres

June 15, 2009 Filed Under: Oil and Gas  
TAMM Oil and Gas Corp. Acquires Additional 5,000 Acres

TAMM Oil and Gas Corp. announced that it has acquired an additional 5,120 Acres of oil sands leases in the Peace River region of Alberta from Petrocorp Inc (“PTCP”). These new leases increase TAMM’s land holdings in the Manning area to over 35,000 acres. In exchange for the leases, TAMM has issued 1,000,000 shares in full consideration to PTCP. Don Hryhor, Director and Exploration... 

American Petro-Hunter Updates #1 Lutters Well Production Schedule

May 27, 2009 Filed Under: Oil and Gas  
American Petro-Hunter Updates #1 Lutters Well Production Schedule

American Petro-Hunter, Inc. update the ongoing activities at the #1 Lutters Well oil well at the Poston Prospect located in Trego County Kansas. American Petro-Hunter and the operator of the project, S & W Oil & Gas, LLC of Wichita, have determined that construction for the pad site and tank battery will begin on June 1st. The Operator has installed 5 1/2″ casing and cement in preparation... 

Imperial Oil approves Kearl oil sands project

May 25, 2009 Filed Under: Oil and Gas  
Imperial Oil approves Kearl oil sands project

Imperial Oil Limited announced its board of directors has approved the first phase of the Kearl oil sands project, a surface mining operation northeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta. The Kearl project is envisioned to be developed in three phases and could ultimately produce more than 300,000 barrels a day of bitumen. The first phase of the project, expected to begin production in late 2012 with total... 

Additional Coal Applications Submitted to Saskatchewan Government

May 21, 2009 Filed Under: Coal Mining  
Additional Coal Applications Submitted to Saskatchewan Government

Micron Enviro Systems, Inc. announce that it has applied for additional coal permits that are contiguous to existing coal permits currently held by the Company. These applications are located within the “Durango Trend” of the coal deposits in Saskatchewan, Canada. This area is the host for the most recent discovery by Goldsource Mines Inc., whose stock price rose from $0.30 to over $19/share...