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Continental Resources Reports Completion Results on Its First Well in the Three Forks/Sanish Formation in North Dakota Bakken Area

Continental Resources, Inc. announced initial results from its Bice 1-29H well completed in the Three Forks/Sanish formation in the North Dakota Bakken Shale area. The Dunn County well, in which Continental has a 41% working interest, is the Company’s first well to be completed in the Three Forks/Sanish formation. Previous wells drilled by the Company [...]

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Uranium Resources, Inc. Files for Extension of Form 10-K Filing Deadline

Uranium Resources, Inc. announced it has requested a 15-day extension from the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the filing of its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006. The Company requested the extension because it does not expect to complete the preparation of management’s assessment of internal [...]

Lions Gate Metals Inc.: Poplar Property Land Staking Completed

Lions Gate Metals Inc. announce that the Company has completed their staking of the Poplar Project land claim with a total of 49,683 hectares surrounding both the Poplar and China Creek projects. These claims were staked to cover the entire potential porphyry copper body in the region.
Work has commenced on the Poplar/China Creek project to [...]

JBIC, Qatar Petroleum ink deal on partnership

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation signed a business partnership agreement with Qatar Petroleum on Thursday, aimed at developing a more favorable environment for Japanese companies hoping to get involved in energy resource development projects in Qatar.
The bank’s officials will meet regularly with those of the state-run oil company to gather information about oil and [...]

Japan Seeks Oil Security in Iraq, Indonesia After Iran Setback

Japan, dependent on imports for 99 percent of its oil and gas, may turn to Iraq and Indonesia after it lost control of Iran’s biggest untapped field.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government promised this week to invest in Iraq’s shattered energy industry in the hope that Japan will be able to tap the world’s third-largest [...]

Crowflight Declares Commerical Production at Bucko Mine

CROWFLIGHT MINERALS INC. announced that, as of June 1, 2009, it has achieved commercial production at its wholly-owned Bucko Lake Nickel Mine (Bucko) located in the Thompson Nickel Belt near Wabowden, Manitoba (commercial production being defined as throughput greater than 60% of mill nameplate capacity).
Initial production at Bucko commenced during December 2008 and the first [...]

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Pride International, Inc reports; Contract Award for Deepwater Semisubmersible Rig Pride South Pacific

Pride International, Inc as reported by media has just released news saying that the company announced that its deepwater semisubmersible rig, the Pride South Pacific, has been awarded a two-well, estimated 90-day contract by an international oil and gas exploration and production company for drilling operations offshore West Africa. The contract is expected to commence [...]

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Petrobras Wants Latin America Gas Pipeline to Aid Oil Exports

Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, plans to promote a South America- wide network of natural gas pipelines to reduce costs in the region and increase energy exports.
Rio de Janeiro-based Petrobras is studying a plan that would begin by extending pipelines in the southern half of the continent, Ildo Sauer, the company’s gas chief, [...]

Aspen Aerogels(TM) Opens Edmonton Laboratory, Targets $1B Insulation Market in the Athabasca Oil Sands

Aspen Aerogels, the Massachusetts-based developer of the nanotechnology-enabled aerogel blankets, announced today that it will invest heavily in the Oil Sands market, beginning with a new laboratory in Edmonton, set to open in August. “The Oil Sands represents a significant opportunity for Aspen, one that we estimate will represent a $75MM market within a five [...]

Gastem: Partner Completes 60% Earn-In and Initiates Frac Program on Yamaska

Gastem announced that following the summer 2008 program, including the drilling of two horizontal wells at St-Francois and St-Louis, Canadian Forest Oil (Forest) has fulfilled its spending requirement and earned a 60% interest in the Yamaska Property. As per the agreement, Forest is now the operator of the Utica Shale Program on Yamaska, covering some [...]