Berry Petroleum Company announced that it is increasing its estimate of original oil in place in its diatomite asset by over 35% to 330 million barrels. During 2008, Berry drilled six delineation wells in the northern portion of the field. These wells encountered a 300 feet to 400 feet thick oil column with reservoir characteristics [...]

Schlumberger Ltd announced that its shares jumped Friday after the oilfield services provider said its second-quarter profit rose 13 percent and issued a bullish outlook. Analysts praised the results. The stock rose $4.72, or 4.9 percent, to $101.50 in late-morning trading.
The Houston-based company said high oil and natural gas prices led to heavier spending [...]

Schlumberger Ltd told the press that a better-than-expected jump in quarterly profit on Friday and the world’s largest oilfield services company gave an upbeat outlook for energy companies’ spending on oil and gas exploration that helped push its shares up 4 percent. Schlumberger Chief Executive, Andrew Gould, Citing customer response to higher prices, he repeated [...]

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 [...]

Tri-Valley Corporation has exceeded 2,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (BOED) rate with total field production recorded at 2,058.3 BOED from its 43 active producing wells on six California properties. This surpasses the original year end 2008 Company Plan of 2,000 BOED by more than six months.
“With tested productive capacity of individual wells now [...]

Oil prices settled higher, rebounding from earlier losses on reports that Nigerian oil workers are about to strike, and investors focused on a surprise decline in gasoline inventories last week.
Retail gas prices slipped slightly for a second day, a sign that falling demand may be affecting prices and that prices at the pump may have [...]

The Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report that natural gas inventories held in underground storage in the lower 48 states rose by 80 billion cubic feet to nearly 1.89 trillion cubic feet for the week ending June 6.
The inventory level was slightly below the five-year average of about 1.91 trillion [...]

Crude oil prices rose in New York, a day after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said production levels wouldn’t increase before September.
OPEC President Chakib Khelil, Algeria’s minister of energy and mines, said the major exporting group would keep production at current levels.
Saudi Arabia recently increased production by 300,000 barrels a day, which [...]