Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (NYSE:PAA) announced that a wholly owned subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation (“OXY”), has entered into definitive agreements to acquire an aggregate 10% equity interest in the general partner of PAA directly from the existing owners. Closing is expected to occur within the next 30 to 45 days and is subject [...]

Tesco Corporation announced that Robert L. Kayl, the Company’s Vice President and Controller, has been named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective July 2, 2008. Julio Quintana, TESCO’s President and Chief Executive Officer said, “Bob has played a key role at the Company since arriving in 2005; we are fortunate to have [...]

Teton Energy Corporation announced today its participation in the Collins Stewart Fourth Annual Growth Conference to be held at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York, NY on July 8-10, 2008.
Karl F. Arleth, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Lonnie R. Brock, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, are scheduled to present on Tuesday, [...]

Quest Resource Corporation (NasdaqGM:QRCP) (”Quest”) announced today the pricing of a follow-on public offering of 8,800,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $10.25 per share. Quest has also granted the underwriters a 30-day over-allotment option to purchase up to an additional 1,320,000 shares of its common stock. The offering is expected to [...]

Victory Energy Corporation announced today it has received permit approval from the Texas Railroad Commission Oil and Gas Division to drill a second 12,500 foot well. This permit is in the Corporation’s current gas play in the Texas Permian Basin.
The permit is for the Strawn Limestone formation, located at a depth of approximately 12,500 feet. [...]

Petrosearch Energy Corporation announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Barnett Petrosearch L.L.C., has agreed to sell its 5.54455% limited partnership interest in DDJET Limited LLP (“DDJET”) to Cinco County Barnett Shale LLC (“Cinco”), one of the other two partners in DDJET, for a cash purchase price of $36,000,000. Cinco paid to Barnett Petrosearch $1,800,000 as [...]

Occidental Petroleum Corporation announced an agreement with SandRidge Energy to develop a West Texas hydrocarbon gas processing plant and related pipeline infrastructure that will provide carbon dioxide (CO2) for use in Oxy’s enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects. The new CO2 resources are expected to expand Oxy’s Permian production by a minimum of 50,000 barrels [...]

Teton Energy Corporation announced today that it successfully syndicated its three-year $150 million bank credit facility to a group of four domestic banks. The facility was originally underwritten by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., which will continue to act as the administrative agent on the facility. Joining JPMorgan in the bank group are Royal Bank of [...]

AmMex Gold Mining Corp. announced that it has decided not to proceed with the acquisition of 100% of the mining rights to the Cold Creek Gold Project, located in Cassia County, Idaho, near the Utah-Nevada border.
Management and the Board of Directors concluded that the Cold Creek property, while being a property of merit, does not [...]

Tri-Valley Corporation has exceeded 2,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (BOED) rate with total field production recorded at 2,058.3 BOED from its 43 active producing wells on six California properties. This surpasses the original year end 2008 Company Plan of 2,000 BOED by more than six months.
“With tested productive capacity of individual wells now [...]