Thunder Mountain Gold, Inc. announced that Thunder Mountain Resources, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary, has completed their first core hole in its planned exploration program at their South Mountain Mine, Owyhee County, Idaho. The hole (DMEA 2) encountered a zone of mineralization from 656 feet to 705 feet with approximately 40 feet of the core [...]

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. and Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. announced the two companies have entered into a 50/50 joint venture, Fayetteville Express Pipeline, LLC (FEP), to develop a new pipeline. The approximately 187-mile pipeline will originate in Conway County, Ark., continue eastward through White County, Ark., and terminate at an interconnect with Trunkline Gas [...]

Forbes Energy Services Ltd. announced that a joint venture between the Company and Merco Ingenieria Industrial S.A. de C.V. has executed a 24-month contract with PEMEX Exploracion y Produccion, a subsidiary of Petroleos Mexicanos, to provide construction, workover and maintenance services to existing wells in Mexico. Under the terms of the initial $72 million contract, [...]

Venoco, Inc. announced that it expects its 2009 production to average between 20,500 to 21,500 barrels of oil equivalent per day, an organic growth rate of 10-15% relative to 2008 after giving pro forma effect to the sale of the company’s Hastings complex, which is expected to close in the first quarter. The company’s 2009 [...]

Delta Petroleum Corporation, an independent oil and gas exploration and development company, announced that it has signed agreements for two separate transactions in the Columbia River Basin of Washington and Oregon. The first is a transaction with EnCana USA, Inc., through which Delta has acquired all of EnCana’s net leasehold position and interest in wells [...]

Buyers from outside the Netherlands purchased 80 percent of the equipment in the most recent Ritchie Bros. auction in Moerdijk, representing (euro)35 million (US$51 million) of the (euro)44 million auction (US$64 million). The unreserved public auction of heavy equipment and trucks attracted more than 1,100 on-site and online bidders from 59 countries. Almost 3,700 used [...]

Invensys Process Systems (IPS), a global technology, software and consulting firm, announced that it has won a major contract to upgrade control and automation systems at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal and regasification plant near Barcelona, Spain.
The site, at Barcelona Terminal, is one of three such facilities run by Enagas, Spain’s leading natural gas [...]

Planet Resource Recovery, Inc., announce that the company has reached an agreement with the landlord of the company’s manufacturing and R&D facility in Pearland, Texas to expand the building space to accommodate expansion of manufacturing capacity. The Landlord has commenced the survey and retention of a contractor to add on approximately an additional 8,000 square [...]

Saratoga Resources, Inc. announced that approximately 98% of its producing properties have resumed full production and product sales following Hurricane Ike. Saratoga previously announced, on September 17, 2008, that production on, and product sales from, select properties was not expected to resume for 7 to 10 days due to hurricane-related damage to third party processing [...]

Arabian American Development Co. provided an update on the effects of Hurricane Ike to its operations. The Company announced that it had sustained no material damage from the hurricane winds or flooding, power has been restored and it has restarted the manufacturing process effective September 17, 2008 at its South Hampton Resource facility. South [...]