Oilbarrel News headlines March 09, 2010
News: March 09, 2010
London main board LSE listed Hardy Oil & Gas is a full cycle E & P company with production, development and high impact exploration prospects, mostly, but not entirely, in India. The emphasis in the 2009 preliminary results
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News: March 09, 2010
Two thousand and ten should be a key year for ASX-quoted Po Valley Energy. The company, which takes it name from the gas-rich region of northern Italy where it operates, has overcome bureaucratic inertia to bring its
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News: March 08, 2010
For a relative newcomer to the exploration scene, Cove Energy is setting an impressive pace. Less than a year after it was formed through the acquisition of an AIM cash shell, Cove has clocked its first discovery. What’s more,
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News: March 05, 2010
Unlike North America and Australia, where coal bed methane resources are making significant contributions to energy supplies, operators in Western Europe have been slow to grasp the resource opportunities presented by the gas
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Market Overview: March 05, 2010
The oil price is maintaining a healthy run, managing to stay around US$80 for the past 2 weeks. Oil producers will be hoping this trend will continue as they prepare for OPEC’s first meeting of 2010. In early trading on Friday,
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News: March 05, 2010
When we last reported on Leed Petroleum, we made the point that after a difficult year in 2009 the company was in effect starting anew with its drilling effort.
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News: March 04, 2010
A new investor presentation from Aurora Oil & Gas makes it very clear that this ASX-listed oil junior sees itself playing with the big boys on the frontline of the North American surge in unconventional gas supplies. Aurora is
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News: March 03, 2010
Just as production was marching in the right direction for ASX-listed Victoria Petroleum, the rain has put a halt to play. Ongoing heavy rains in northern South Australia have caused basin-wide flooding in the Cooper Basin, one
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News: March 02, 2010
There was nothing really new in the pre-close update from Chariot Oil & Gas but the announcement did provide a moment for investors to reflect on what a key year 2010 could be for the AIM-quoted explorer. First, Chariot has now
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Feature: March 02, 2010
A few years ago, people scoffed at the possibility of finding oil in landlocked Uganda. And the prospect of spending billions of dollars in development money off the coast of Ghana would have sent bankers into an early pre-credit
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News: March 01, 2010
Melrose Resources met its production targets for 2009, delivering working interest output of 38,600 barrels of oil equivalent per day, up 8.6 per cent on 2008 levels as five new fields were brought onstream in Egypt. The net
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Market Overview: February 26, 2010
The uncertainty of the global economy continued to weigh on the oil market this week. The dollar gained little strength and the Eurozone stayed stagnant. Crude stocks continue to be high and with little real news to move the
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News: February 26, 2010
It’s been a while coming – four months in fact since they first mooted a merger - but San Leon Energy and Island Oil & Gas have now agreed terms that will see Ireland’s San Leon acquire its cash-strapped compatriot in an all
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News: February 25, 2010
We recently asked whether it would be second time lucky for Tower Resources with its new well in Uganda. It look like it has not been. The company has announced that Avivi-1 has reached its total depth at 764 metres without
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News: February 24, 2010
Those investors who booked a nice return on Rift Oil, the Papua New Guinea-focused explorer that was last year bought by Canada’s Talisman Energy in a deal that delivered a three-fold return to shareholders, will no doubt be
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