Saxon Oil Company Ltd. has received a new field designation from New Mexico regulatory authorities for its Eumont State No. 1 oil discovery in Lea County, New Mexico. New Mexico designated the Eumont well as the discovery well in the Urssey Tank: Yates-Seven Rivers Pool. Special pool rules are in effect from the date of [...]
Vortex Resources Corp. announce that it is exercising the option to drill its fifth well in Adams-Baggett Field in Crockett County, Texas. After successfully drilling three wells in the Adams-Baggett area and awaiting the results from the fourth well, the management of Vortex has decided to move forward with exercising the option to drill its [...]
Verenex Energy Inc. announce that it has submitted a Final Appraisal Report for the A1-47/02 Field to the Area 47 Management Committee which includes representatives of Verenex, Medco International Ventures Limited and the Libyan National Oil Corporation (”NOC”). The Report recommends that the field be declared commercial as a first step in advancing a 50,000 [...]
Lighthouse Petroleum, Inc. announce the acquisition of a 25% working interest in G2 Petroleum LLC’s Diamond Springs Prospect, located within the prolific Wind River Basin. The Diamond Springs Prospect comprises 3,300 gross acres of prospective oil and natural gas property in Fremont County, Wyoming. Independent geologic work has concluded that the property has the potential [...]
Repsol YPF, an international integrated oil and gas company operating in over 30 countries, today announced that the company’s advanced seismic imaging project — Kaleidoscope — has begun exploration operations in the Gulf of Mexico and Brazil.
Kaleidoscope is powered by reverse-time migration (RTM), a sophisticated subsurface imaging tool whose potential is accepted by the oil [...]
El Paso Corporation announced the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has given final approval to Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) to proceed with an agreement announced last year to obtain 375,000 dekatherms per day of capacity on the Ruby Pipeline for the delivery of natural gas to PG&E’s gas and electric customers.
The unanimous CPUC [...]
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. announced that it has entered into a new $525 million committed hedged inventory credit facility, maturing in November 2009. Borrowings under the facility will be primarily used to finance the purchase of hedged crude oil inventory for storage activities when market conditions warrant as well as foreign import activities. The [...]
Terry Engelder, professor of geosciences in Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, who recently announced that the Marcellus natural gas find is potentially larger than his earlier estimates, will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming Pennsylvania Natural Gas Summit, an outreach program of Penn State. The summit will be held at the [...]
Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P. announced a non-binding Open Season for additional firm capacity on its Enbridge Pipelines (Midla), L.L.C. subsidiary’s interstate natural gas transmission ‘Midla’ pipeline system. The Midla system is a 170-mile, 22-inch diameter low-pressure pipeline spanning Louisiana and Mississippi from the Perryville Hub area at the north end of the system to [...]
North American Energy Resources, Inc. announce that North American Energy Resources, Inc., through Apwash Pipeline, LLC, has increased its ownership stake in approximately 16 miles of a natural gas pipeline located in Washington County, Oklahoma from 49% to 75% ownership. The pipeline will provide service to approximately 11,500 acres of potential leases that contain multiple [...]
