Aminex PLC, the oil and gas company listed on the London and Irish Stock exchanges, on Wednesday said that drilling of the South Weslaco Well GU#37 well in Hidalgo County, Texas, has now commenced. Aminex’s interest in this well is held through a wholly owned subsidiary, Aminex USA, Inc.
This is the third development well to [...]

Bayard Energy Solutions Inc., a Texas oil and gas exploration company, announced the successful drilling and completion of the Beulah No. 2 Well in southeastern Texas, the first well in Bayard’s promising multi-well Golden Harvest drilling program.
Drilling began in Matagorda County, Texas, July 8 with the operator preparing to test seven sands from 2,500 to [...]

Southwestern Electric Power Co. said Wednesday it would build a new coal-fueled, 600-megawatt power plant north of Fulton in Hempstead County.
The $1.3 billion plant is part of a plan that includes gas-powered plants at Tontitown and at Shreveport, La. The plant near Fulton would run on coal mined in Wyoming. Plant costs are to be [...]

WW Energy Inc. is pleased to announce that it has entered into a letter of intent to acquire forty-one percent of a private company’s natural gas and oil interests in Montana. The assets are characterized by producing oil and gas assets along with associated facility infrastructure (twenty miles of pipeline). The properties also contain a [...]

BP’s (BP.L) giant oil field in Alaska could return to full production by January after the company fixes pipeline corrosion that triggered multiple leaks on the tundra, the U.S. government said Tuesday.
International oil major BP began shutting its Prudhoe Bay field, the largest in the United States, on Sunday after finding a small spill. Oil [...]

Canary Resources Inc. today announced the formation of a new drilling company and a well service company. Canary’s management has hired experienced employees and procured equipment and inventory over the past several months, enabling Canary to reduce its reliance on an increasingly expensive and scarce third party services industry.
With the creation of these wholly owned [...]

Gastar Exploration Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has drilled the John Parker (number sign)1 well located in Robertson County, Texas to a total depth of 17,522 feet and, based on preliminary analysis of electric logs and gas shows encountered during drilling, the well encountered approximately 60 net feet of apparent pay with high [...]

EnerCom, Inc. announced today the lineup for The Eleventh Oil & Gas Conference(TM), www.theoilandgasconference.com. The Conference, held in Denver Aug. 13-17, 2006, is the largest energy investment conference hosted in Denver, showcasing more than 90 companies with a combined enterprise value of more than $300 billion. This premier forum offers institutional investors, energy research analysts, [...]

Terax Energy Inc. has announced oil and gas net revenues of approximately $133,000 for the month of June 2006, based on production of its first three wells in Erath County, Texas, targeting the Barnett Shale Formation.
Terax’s net gas sales from the Mitchell #1-H, #2-H and #3-H wells were approximately $103,836 for 16,797 net mmbtu — [...]

The Department of Energy will hold meetings near the four towns competing to host the FutureGen power plant to hear public comment on the coal and carbon dioxide research facility.
Two of the proposed sites are in Texas: Jewett and Odessa. The department will hold the meeting about the Jewett site in nearby Fairfield on [...]