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 [...]

Marking a new era of partnership in oil development in the province, the Honourable Danny Williams, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the province’s oil industry co-venturers today announced and signed the final deal for the development of the province’s fourth offshore oil project, Hebron. The Premier was joined by: the Honourable Kathy Dunderdale, Minister [...]

Oromin Explorations Ltd. is pleased to announce the receipt of an independent report (the “Santa Rosa Evaluation”) from Aeon Exploration Inc. of Calgary, Alberta (”Aeon”) that provides an evaluation of prospective resources with respect to its 100% owned CCyB-9 Santa Rosa exploration permit and exploitation concession on a property located in the Cuyana Basin in [...]

Samson Oil & Gas currently produces around 100 BOPD (gross) from a horizontal well placed in the Bluell Formation of the North Harstad oil field which is located in the central part of the Williston Basin. This well has been on production for 15 months and has demonstrated the productive capacity of this formation such [...]

Western Standard Energy Corp., an oil and gas exploration company, is pleased to announce it has signed a Letter of Intent (‘LOI’) with Oil for America (‘OFA’) to option and acquire up to four additional Bakken and Lodgepole prospects on 1,280 acres in Stark County, North Dakota.
Depth of the Bakken objective in the area is [...]

The U.S. Geological Survey has released an assessment of the Bakken Formation, which stretches across 25,000 square miles from northeastern Montana across northwestern North Dakota and up into the southern region of Saskatchewan.
The last USGS study, completed in 1995, estimated the Bakken Formation had 150 million barrels of undiscovered technically recoverable oil. Thirteen years later, [...]

North Dakota and Montana have an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation.
A U.S. Geological Survey assessment, released April 10, shows a 25-fold increase in the amount of oil that can be recovered compared to the agency’s 1995 estimate of 151 million barrels [...]

The Bakken oil formation, which stretches across North Dakota, Montana and southeastern Saskatchewan, is suddenly drawing worldwide attention.
On Thursday, April 10, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) published an official study on the massive Bakken reserve.
Among the agency’s findings:
* Up to 4.3 billion barrels of oil could be recovered from the Bakken shale formation — a [...]

There’s been speculation for years about a western North Dakota formation known as the Bakken Shale.
The formation extends into Montana and Canada. Geologists have estimated the area holds hundreds of billions of barrels of oil.
The problem has been how to get that oil out of the ground. It’s not a pool you drill [...]

A shale formation stretching North Dakota and Montana may have an estimated 3 to 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil, according to a U.S. Geological Survey assessment.
Known as the Bakken Formation, the find would make the recoverable oil in North Dakota and Montana the largest U.S. oil reserves outside Alaska.
The recently released assessment shows [...]