TransMontaigne Partners L.P. announced that effective July 8, 2008, Charles L. Dunlap has been appointed to serve as a member of the Board of Directors and will also serve as a member of the Conflicts Committee of TransMontaigne GP L.L.C., the General Partner of the Partnership. The General Partner is responsible for managing the [...]

Oceaneering International, Inc. announced it has recently been awarded a contract by Shell for the fabrication and installation of subsea hardware on Shell’s ultra-deepwater Perdido Regional Development project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM).
Engineering and fabrication of the hardware to be provided under the contract has commenced. This hardware includes 29 flowline and well [...]

FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that it will issue its second quarter 2008 earnings release after the market closes on Thursday, July 24, 2008. The company also announced it will host its second quarter 2008 earnings release teleconference on Friday, July 25, at 9:00 a.m. EDT.
The call can be accessed by dialing 877-307-5429 (U.S. / Canada) [...]

Universal Energy Corp., announced an update on drilling operations at its Lone Oak prospect in Galveston Bay, Texas. Installation of 7 5/8″ intermediate casing is now complete to a total measured depth of 11,470 feet. Drilling will commence later in the week to the target measured depth of 12,615 feet.
Billy Raley, Chief Executive Officer of [...]

PetroQuest Energy Inc. narrowed its second-quarter production guidance to the lower part of its previous range, blaming lower-than-expected Gulf Coast production.
PetroQuest Energy now expects its second-quarter production to average between 91 million and 94 million cubic feet of natural gas equivalent per day.
The company said in May that daily production would average between 91 million [...]

ConocoPhillips says its global production fell as expected in the second quarter because of planned maintenance, but it benefited from higher oil and natural gas prices.
In an overview of market conditions for the April-June period, ConocoPhillips also said its worldwide refining margins in the second quarter probably improved from the first quarter. But the company [...]

The Energy Department raised its outlook for the average price of a barrel of crude and a gallon of gasoline this year.
The Energy Information Administration’s Short-Term Energy Outlook now say oil will average $127 a barrel this year, up from the $122 a barrel forecast in last month’s report. The EIA expects gasoline to average [...]

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 [...]

The Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (TAQA), a publicly listed company on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, TAQA Bratani Limited (TAQA Bratani), has signed a sale and purchase agreement with Shell U.K. Limited and Esso Exploration and Production (UK) Limited (’the Vendors’) to purchase the equity pertaining to [...]

Infinity Energy Resources, Inc., an independent oil and gas exploration and development company, today announced that the regional government council of the Autonomous Region of the Southern Atlantic (”RAAS”) voted to approve the Company’s offshore Nicaraguan exploration and development contracts on July 4, 2008.
“This represents the achievement of a critical objective in our quest [...]