Chevron Welcomes Shell to the Wheatstone Project

Chevron Corporation today announced the signing of agreements with Shell Development (Australia) Pty Ltd to bring Shell into the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project as a natural gas supplier and equity participant. George Kirkland, vice chairman, Chevron Corporation, said, “Chevron is pleased to welcome another participant into the Wheatstone Project.... 

Samson Oil & Gas Advises on Close of Sale of Gas Assets and Earl #1-13H Well

Samson Oil & Gas Limited advises that it has closed its previously announced sale of gas assets in the Jonah and Lookout Wash Fields in Green River Basin, Wyoming for $6.3 million to a group of private buyers, with an effective date of January 1, 2011. Samson’s cash balance following this transaction stands at US$73.3 million. Samson has also... 

Research and Markets: New Forecasts of Supply, Demand, Investment and Infrastructure for the Kuwait Oil and Gas Industry

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “The Future of Kuwait Oil and Gas Industry to 2020- Forecasts of Supply, Demand, Investment, Companies and Infrastructure (Fields, Blocks, Pipelines, LNG, Refinery, Storage Assets)” report to their offering. The Future of Kuwait Oil and Gas Industry to 2020 provides a comprehensive... 

Texas Allied Petroleum Reworks Laramie Fields

Texas Allied Petroleum, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has successfully reworked its Cooper Cove, Herrick and Little Laramie fields in Wyoming. Daily production from the three fields is approximately 100 barrels of oil per day. A surface discharge system is currently being permitted, which has potential to increase production and decrease operating... 

Enhanced Oil Resources Inc. Provides 2011 Activity Update

Enhanced Oil Resources Inc. is pleased to provide the following update regarding the Company’s proposed activity for 2011. The Company had previously announced on December 22nd 2010 that it had completed a $25 Million bank credit facility with Regions Bank. The credit facility capped a year where the Company produced four straight quarters of... 

Philadelphia University and MAG Establish New Composites Institute to Develop Textile-Based Composites for Industrial Applications

Philadelphia University and MAG are establishing the Philadelphia University MAG Composites Institute for research and development of new textile-based composites that could have wide application in industry, including the aerospace, automotive and energy sectors. The new research institute will be funded in part by $1.1 million from MAG, whose chairman... 

BP’s U.S. spill experience a plus: Russian Minister

A Russian minister said BP’s experience in cleaning up the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill was one of the reasons Russia chose the British oil firm to help develop its fragile Arctic shelf oil fields. BP and Russia’s state-controlled Rosneft on Friday agreed to a multi-billion-dollar share swap, under which they will jointly explore... 

Incident at Pengrowth’s Swan Hills Gas Gathering Pipeline System

Pengrowth Energy Corporation Attention: Financial Editors On January 1, 2011, Pengrowth Energy Corporation staff and local authorities responded to a pipeline incident at the Swan Hills gas gathering pipeline system in North Central Alberta. Early Saturday morning, the rupture of a pipeline in the Swan Hills gas gathering pipeline system, north of the... 

Enhanced Oil Resources Inc. Announces New US $25 Million Bank Credit Facility with Regions Bank.

Enhanced Oil Resources Inc. today announced that two of its wholly-owned U.S. subsidiaries have executed a reducing revolving Credit Facility with Regions Bank, Houston, Texas providing for up to US $25,000,000 in development financing for its oil and gas properties located in New Mexico. The new Credit Facility provides an initial borrowing base of... 

Hydrogen milestone moves energy independence one step forward

Big things often come in small packages. That’s certainly the case with the potential created by recent successes in hydrogen research at Idaho National Laboratory. Steve Herring, technical director of the High Temperature Electrolysis Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative, holds in his hand a solid-oxide electrolysis cell no larger than a standard CD....