Tri-Valley Corporation has published a report saying that the company has promoted three of its Tri-Valley Oil & Gas Co. subsidiary officers to support its expanding petroleum and mineral exploration and production projects. Joseph R. Kandle, former president and chief operating officer of Tri-Valley Oil & Gas Co., has been promoted to senior vice president [...]

Whiting Petroleum Corporation has published a report to the media today that record second quarter 2008 net income of $80.4 million, or $1.90 per basic and diluted share, on total revenues of $345.8 million. This compares to second quarter 2007 net income of $26.5 million, or $0.72 per basic and diluted share, on total revenues [...]

Enterra Energy Trust has told the press that the company has a potential financial exposure of up to $10 million primarily from oil and gas sales to subsidiaries of SemGroup L.P. (”SemGroup”) in Canada and the U.S. during the months of June and July 2008. A financial instrument held in Canada with SemGroup offsets a [...]

Cano Petroleum, Inc has recently told the press about the results of its Fiscal Year End Reserves as prepared by Miller and Lents, Ltd., its new independent petroleum engineer. Proved developed producing (PDP) reserves increased 25% to 10.6 million barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) up from 8.5 million BOE (after FY ’08 production of 0.5 [...]

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 [...]

Marathon Oil Corp. will sell some of its interests in acreage off Norway’s coast to the U.K.’s Centrica PLC for $416 million.
As of year-end 2007, the assets being sold contained net proved reserves of 4.8 million barrels of oil equivalent and net production of about 7,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

Marathon Oil Corporation announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Centrica plc, the parent company of British Gas, under which Centrica will purchase Marathon’s non-operated interests in the Heimdal infrastructure, related producing fields and associated undeveloped acreage offshore Norway. The transaction, which has a total value of $416 million and an [...]

The Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (TAQA), a publicly listed company on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, TAQA Bratani Limited (TAQA Bratani), has signed a sale and purchase agreement with Shell U.K. Limited and Esso Exploration and Production (UK) Limited (’the Vendors’) to purchase the equity pertaining to [...]

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 [...]

-Tri-Valley Corporation announced that it has established an alliance with Excalibur Well Services, Inc of Bakersfield, California and has sold all of its 100% owned Great Valley Production Services production rigs and equipment to Excalibur as part of an advantageous arrangement. The sale price was not disclosed.
“We originally formed Great Valley Production Services LLP because, [...]