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... 

Hyperdynamics Contracts TDI-Brooks for Oil Seeps Study Offshore the Republic of Guinea

October 6, 2009 Filed Under: Mining Contractors, Oil and Gas  
Hyperdynamics Contracts TDI-Brooks for Oil Seeps Study Offshore the Republic of Guinea

Hyperdynamics Corporation announced that it has contracted TDI-Brooks International of Houston to conduct a comprehensive oil seeps study of the company’s 31,000-square-mile oil and gas concession offshore Guinea. The sample collection is expected to begin in mid-October. “We are conducting this study to survey known sites of oil seepage in three areas of our concession,” said Ray... 

3 W.Va. sites receive coal mining reclamation awards

September 28, 2008 Filed Under: Coal Mining  

Eight coal mine operations in five states, including three from West Virginia, gained top honors in the annual competition overseen by the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. “These awards recognize the highest achievements in innovative techniques, reforestation, preparing mined land for long-term agricultural use and building enduring community infrastructure,” said Brent... 

Arctic Oil & Gas Corp.: Government Officials Should Vote for Energy Prosperity, Not Energy Poverty

September 17, 2008 Filed Under: Oil and Gas  

Arctic Oil & Gas Corp. (351 million shares issued), a petroleum exploration company, is pleased to announce that the Company and partners have proposed $2.50 gasoline, 30% discounted natural gas and hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties to Santa Barbara County from a proposed, (40% AOAG equity) Santa Barbara OCS-State petroleum lease development project, on known oil accumulations containing... 

Altai Announces Acquisition of Oil & Gas Permit in Sept Iles, Quebec

August 1, 2008 Filed Under: Nickel Mining, Precious Metal  

Altai Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that it has recently acquired an Oil and Gas Permit No. 2008PG988 totaling 24,042 hectares at Sept Iles on the Upper St. Lawrence, Quebec. This Permit covers a gas well drilled in 1970 that encountered gas in recent sediments at a depth of 270 feet (90 meters) and was plugged and abandoned. As the underlying rocks are part of the Canadian Shield, the gas... 

Lafayette still needs to build acid mine drainage system

September 18, 2006 Filed Under: Mining Services, Zinc Mining  

The Rapu Rapu mine has to ensure that an effective control against polluting acid mine drainage (AMD) is in place before government can lift its suspension to ensure that it will not bring adverse effects on human, aquatic life, and the environment. Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) Director Horacio C. Ramos told a press briefing that an AMD program is one of two conditions that Rapu Rapu operator...