Oil Exploration News
Pensacola News Journal
Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:07:18 -0800
Our topics: jobs, immigration, space, seniors issues and oil exploration off the Gulf Coast. The stories are a part of a joint effort between Gannett's Florida newspapers and television stations -- in Pensacola, Brevard County, Fort Myers, ...
Investor's Business Daily
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:03:11 -0800
By vance cariaga, INVESTOR'S business daily posted 12/30/2011 04:46 PM ET With oil still trading near $100 a barrel, some exploration and production companies are buying up acreage in key drilling areas to take advantage of the windfall. ...
Stabroek News
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:04:19 -0800
The same geological structure has been determined on this side of the Atlantic and other companies have recently struck oil off French Guiana. These developments favor interest for oil exploration off the Suriname coast. Natural resources Minister Jim ...
Macauhub
Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:52:37 -0800
After signing the contracts, the chairman of Sonangol, Manuel Vicente, said that the contracts followed a good result in terms of oil exploration in Angola last week, specifically confirmation of existence of commercial quantities of hydrocarbons in ...
Houma Courier
Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:12:00 -0800
Landowners who have leased property to an oil company may file suit in their parish to pay for environmental remediation measures. The hellholes report calls the practice a cottage industry that has brought onshore energy exploration and production ...
Wall Street Journal
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:45:28 -0800
They have asked the Obama administration to block drilling in the Arctic until more is known about the region and oil companies prove their ability to respond to oil spills in the icy conditions of the Arctic. "Our oil spill-response plan is second to ...
San Francisco Chronicle
Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:13:17 -0800
Delek Drilling-LP and Avner Oil Exploration LLP each hold a 15 percent stake, it said. Noble Energy fell 1.7 percent to $94.02 at the close in New York. Expectations for the Cyprus field were high, Michael Hall, an analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co., ...
Forbes
Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:38:29 -0800
This wrong-headed policy represents a dangerous threat to the environment and a huge missed opportunity to the US oil industry. The US embargo will do nothing to prevent oil drilling from taking place in Cuban waters. But it will prevent that work from ...
Daily Comet
Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:07:38 -0800
A 1966 law requires that the bureau guide oil -and-gas companies drilling in the outer continental shelf to assure archeological sites are preserved. Frank Cantelas, a marine archaeologist with the Office of Ocean Exploration and Research at the ...
Huffington Post
Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:37:55 -0800
MOSCOW, Dec 18 - An oil drilling rig with 67 crew on board capsized and sank off the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin on Sunday when it ran into a storm while being towed, leaving 49 of the crew unaccounted for, the regional Emergencies Ministry ...
KAKE
Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:42:56 -0800
"We are just getting ready to finish our first well near Harper, and we've created ten pad site locations, and we're going to be moving our rig we have in Harper County to test and appraise the area," said Erik Bartsch, Shell Oil Exploration Appraisal ...
Tripoli Post
Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:51:38 -0800
BP Plc and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe's biggest oil companies, aim to resume exploration in Libya after the ousting of former Libyan dictator Muammar Al Qathafi. Both said they are evaluating resumption of drilling at wells begun before hostilities ...
The Nation Newspaper
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:38:47 -0800
By Bisi Olaniyi 19 hours 8 minutes ago The representative of the Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has said that crude oil would no longer be drilled in Ogoniland except the Federal Government ...
Oakshire Financial
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:56:43 -0800
Investors that were alive and following oil stocks in 2010 know that offshore oil exploration is, well, kind of controversial. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill reminded us of that fact. Problems for Chevron (NYSE:CVX) and Transocean (NYSE:RIG) in Brazil ...
Upstream Online
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:09:57 -0800
Allied is expected to ramp up exploration at the licences and is also planning to drill two additional wells on the Oyo field beginning from next year. These two wells are expected to significantly increase oil production over current levels, Camac ...
Financial Times
Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:17:24 -0800
Buoyant oil prices have made the economics of shale oil drilling attractive, but analysts question if rising land prices are sustainable. It's too early to say that the large companies are overpaying for assets, because there is not much transparency ...
Anchorage Daily News
Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:07:58 -0800
AP KENAI -- Cook Inlet experienced an upswing in oil and gas exploration in 2011 that is bringing a boost to local business. Three independent oil and gas companies are drilling new wells and another independent submitted more than 90 bids in a ...
Boise Weekly
Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:20:27 -0800
Recently, Citydesk reported that a draft of legislation was expected to be floated before the Idaho Legislature in 2012 that would trump local ordinances when considering oil and gas exploration . Though the oil and gas industry readily admits that it ...
Somaliland Press
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:29:57 -0800
He made clear that the British Oil company Ophir Energy starts exploration on the ground and engineers from the firm are due to arrive in the country shortly. The Minister mentioned that the exploration survey will last for thirteen months and once it ...
Arkansas Times (blog)
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:29:42 -0800
I've said before that I grew up in the Southwest Louisiana oil patch in a refinery town. I know both the prosperity and unpleasant side effects that oil and gas exploration and chemical production can cause. Few people in that part of the world want to ...
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