Transocean Inc. issued an updated fleet status report covering the company’s 137-unit offshore drilling fleet.
Drilling rig status and contract information on the company’s offshore drilling fleet has been condensed into a report titled “Transocean Fleet Status Report,” which is available through the company’s Worldwide Web address at http://www.deepwater.com. The report can be accessed from the [...]

Grey Wolf, Inc. announced that Proxy Governance, Inc., a leading independent proxy voting advisory firm, has recommended that Grey Wolf stockholders vote in favor of the proposed merger with Basic Energy Services, Inc. at the upcoming Special Meeting of Stockholders scheduled for July 15, 2008. As previously announced, Egan-Jones also has recommended that Grey Wolf [...]

Continental Resources, Inc. announced initial results from its Mathistad 1-35H well completed in the Three Forks/Sanish formation in the North Dakota Bakken Shale area. The McKenzie County well, in which Continental has a 40% working interest, is the second that the Company has completed in the Three Forks/Sanish formation in North Dakota.
“The Mathistad 1-35H commenced [...]

Oil prices finished about where they began, after jumping more than $2 earlier on reports of lower U.S. oil stockpiles and an Iranian missile test.
Light, sweet crude for August delivery rose a penny to settle at $136.05 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, but prices shifted between positive and negative territory as traders [...]

Oromin Explorations Ltd. is pleased to announce the receipt of an independent report (the “Santa Rosa Evaluation”) from Aeon Exploration Inc. of Calgary, Alberta (”Aeon”) that provides an evaluation of prospective resources with respect to its 100% owned CCyB-9 Santa Rosa exploration permit and exploitation concession on a property located in the Cuyana Basin in [...]

Golden Share Mining Corporation is pleased to provide an update on its on-going exploration programs.
The Company is advancing four projects and intends to execute three drill programs before the end of the year. Golden Share is sufficiently funded to achieve this objective and adequate field personnel are available. A diamond drilling contract has been awarded [...]

Beacon Energy Corp., an emerging producer and investor in the developing biodiesel sector, has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Beacon Energy Holdings, Inc., a public reporting company. As a result of the transaction, all stockholders of Beacon Energy Corp. exchanged their interests for stock of the public company.
Source: Beacon Energy Corp.
Beacon Energy Corp. was formerly [...]

Goodrich Petroleum Corporation announced the pricing of its previously announced offering of 3,000,000 shares of its common stock pursuant to a registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
All of the shares offered will be sold at a price to the public of $64.00 per share. Net proceeds from the offering, estimated at $183.9 [...]

Marathon Oil Corporation announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Centrica plc, the parent company of British Gas, under which Centrica will purchase Marathon’s non-operated interests in the Heimdal infrastructure, related producing fields and associated undeveloped acreage offshore Norway. The transaction, which has a total value of $416 million and an [...]

Storm Cat Energy Corporation provided an update of its operations in the Company’s Arkansas Fayetteville Shale acreage.
The first three of the Company’s 2008 Fayetteville development program wells are now on production and tied into sales, two of which have undergone State of Arkansas Form 13 testing. Each well continues to produce significant volumes of fracturing [...]