Triangle Petroleum Corporation today reported the following update on its Maritimes Basin shale gas exploration program.
Windsor Block (516,000 gross acres) in Nova Scotia
The Company’s second vertical exploration well of 2008, O-61-C, finished drilling and was cased near the town of Walton, Nova Scotia. This well is located approximately 14 miles (22 kilometers) west of the [...]

Corridor Resources Inc. reported that the South Branch G-36 exploration well is currently drilling ahead at a depth of approximately 2566 meters in the Frederick Brook shale. The well encountered a thick Hiram Brook formation within the interval 1380 meters to 2194 meters containing 33 meters of net natural gas bearing sands and a [...]

Responding the Nabors’ offering worth $750M, Moody’s investors had it reviewed. It is also said that it placed its “A3″ senior unsecured rating for Nabors Industries Ltd. under review for a possible downgrade after the oil and gas driller announced a senior notes offering. The Bermuda-based company said Thursday one of its subsidiaries, Nabors Industries [...]

Nabors Industries Ltd, an oil and gas driller company, published a report saying that one of its subsidiaries has priced a $750 million, 10-year offering. The offering of senior notes by Nabors Industries Inc, due 2018. It is also reported that it will have a 6.15 percent interest rate. The company said that The offering [...]

a fast-growing E&P company with reserves and production from leases located in northern Louisiana, Southern Star Energy Inc, published a report saying that it closed on a $25 million Senior First Lien Secured Revolving Credit Agreement (Revolver) with Macquarie Bank Limited. Proceeds from this facility will be used to fund the development of Southern Star’s [...]

Nabors Industries Ltd, An Oil and gas driller, announced that one of its subsidiaries has priced a $750 million, 10-year offering. The company said that Nabors Industries Inc.’s offering of senior notes, due 2018, will have a 6.15 percent interest rate. The offering is an additional issuance of the same notes that were issued in [...]

Goldman Sachs upgraded the oilfield services sector to “Attractive” from “Neutral,” predicting strong profit growth due to greater drilling activity and high oil prices.
Analyst Charles Minervino expects earnings to grow in the double digits through 2011 as high oil prices lead to more rapid rig construction, and both drilling activity and the rates oil companies [...]

A Lehman Brothers analyst raised his price targets on 37 companies in the oil services and drilling sector, seeing a strong recovery in 2008 and 2009 for North American natural gas drilling along with significant international growth over the next few years.
Analyst James Crandell’s top picks in the sector are Weatherford International Ltd., Halliburton Co., [...]