A mining offshore company, W&T Offshore Inc released the report on its second quarter 2008 financial and operations results at approximately 6:00 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday, August 5, 2008 to the press. In relation to the report, the W&T Offshore Inc has scheduled a conference call, which will also be broadcast live over the Internet, [...]

After the Federal Reserve chairman sounded bleak notes on the U.S. economy, and world supplies loosened a bit, Crude-oil futures sank more than $6 a barrel Tuesday. After the U.S. opened its Strategic Petroleum Reserve at the onset of the first Gulf War.Light, sweet crude for August delivery settled down $6.44, or 4.4%, at $138.74 [...]

Cal Dive International, Inc. will conduct a conference call to discuss its second quarter results on July 31, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. Central Time. A press release summarizing these results is planned for distribution on July 30, 2008, after the market closes. The press release and conference call presentation will be available immediately after publishing [...]

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 [...]

Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. announced the successful acquisition of significant additional leasehold covering its prospective Bay Exploration Area located near Galveston, Texas. This completes the lease acquisition phase in this area. Harvest and its partners now control a major position in the Bay prospective area containing 13 identified leads in the regionally prolific Frio and [...]

Plains Exploration & Production Company announces the dates and times of two upcoming events at which members of management will address the investment community:
– PXP will release second quarter 2008 results on Wednesday, August 6, 2008 before the market opens and will host its quarterly conference call that morning at 8:00 a.m. Central time.
Investors [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

State-owned Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Maaden) yesterday launched an initial public offering to raise 9.25 billion riyals ($2.47bn) in the Middle East’s biggest mining IPO, valuing the firm at $4.9bn.
Maaden plans to sell 462.5 million of stock - equivalent to 50 per cent of its share capital - at 20 riyals each with subscriptions closing [...]