“All I can see is the future of the oil and gas industry as we know it is good,” he said. “The biggest problem we have is finding oil and gas. I see a great future for energy and oil and gas will be there. We’re all going to live in the hydrocarbon era.”
But the [...]

Uranium Energy Corp announces the further expansion of its technical team with the appointment of Paul Pierce as the Manager of Mine Development. Mr. Pierce has 35 years experience in the mining industry in the southwest United States, chiefly in the states of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada, either as a mine engineer [...]

ConocoPhillips officials announced today the hiring of three staff members to manage the Phillips Petroleum Company Museum scheduled to open in May.
Thad Satterfield, formerly CEO and executive director of the Bartlesville Regional United Way, has been named marketing director and will provide direction and strategy for the Phillips Petroleum Company Museum in Bartlesville, as well [...]

Sierra Geothermal Power Corp. reported today that drilling has been completed at the company’s Reese River Project, Lander County, Nevada. Well 56-4 was successfully drilled to a total depth of 1200 m (3930 ft). Testing for geothermal reservoir characteristics has now begun with results pending. The drilling program was operated by Sierra Geothermal’s US [...]

Rancher Energy Corp. is pleased to announce that it has closed the acquisition of two producing oil fields in Wyoming’s Powder River basin. The newly acquired South Glenrock B and Cole Creek South fields feature existing production as well as excellent potential for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) using carbon dioxide (CO2) injection.
On December 22, 2006, [...]

Uranium Resources Inc. will conduct feasibility studies on three old uranium mine sites it owns in Crownpoint, Nose Rock and Roca Honda in northwestern New Mexico to determine if conventional mining would be profitable.
HRI Energy Inc., the New Mexico subsidiary of Texas-based URI , owns 183,000 acres of local mineral holdings. It is planning to [...]

Nevtah Capital Management and its joint venture partner, Black Sands Energy, have signed an agreement to acquire a key leasehold property within the richest portion of the Sunnyside Deposit in the Utah Oil Sands.
The Sunnyside Deposit, according to the Lewin & Associates Report, 1983, ranges in field richness from 100,000 to 600,000 bbl/acre. The Report’s [...]

Formed by the merger of Conoco and Phillips Petroleum, ConocoPhillips is the #3 integrated oil and gas company in the US, behind Exxon Mobil and Chevron; but that could all change following the acquisition of Burlington Resources (for a reported $35 billion) in 2006. The expanded company explores for oil and gas in more than [...]