Saudi Arabia’s oil minister says OPEC’s dominant producer has no immediate plans to boost crude output because there is no need to do so.
But Minister Ali Naimi said he was “concerned about the (price) level” and suggested Saudi Arabia is ready to raise production if the kingdom perceives that basics had changed, with supply no [...]

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 [...]

Geokinetics Inc. announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has approved an increase to the Company’s capital expenditure budget for the year ended December 31, 2008. The approved amount has been increased to $80.0 million, up 24 percent from $64.7 million.
In response to robust customer demand for the Company’s seismic data acquisition and processing services, [...]

Utah’s Republican senators say Congress is set to extend a moratorium on commercial oil-shale development on federal land for another year.
Sens. Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett want to let the moratorium expire at the end of September and let companies develop shale as an alternative fuel.
Hatch and Bennett said deposits in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming [...]

GulfMark Offshore, Inc. today announced it has closed on the previously announced acquisition of Rigdon Marine. The combined company will initially operate 90 vessels with an additional 16 vessels under construction for delivery through 2010. Geographically diversified, the GulfMark fleet will operate 24 vessels in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and bring the total Americas [...]

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. [...]

Iraqis trying to gas up their cars sat in lines that stretched for miles through downtown Baghdad, as the government prepared to accept bids on its petroleum fields.
The country’s fragile oil distribution system means that periodic shortages appear from time to time. But this week’s crunch seemed among the worst.
Iraq announced Monday that it will [...]

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 [...]