Oil Price Falls To US$67 A Barrel On Gloomy US Economic Stats After A Rogue Trader Spikes It To US$73.50 At One Point

The gloomy state of the economy took centre stage as higher than expected jobless figures from the US shocked the market. Oil demand is still low and real signs of recovery remain distant. The US market is closed on Friday but in

Aminex Announces Placing And Open Offer As It Continues To Seek Farm-In Partners Ahead Of Key Ruvuma Well

Facing a funding gap ahead of its first well in the Ruvuma Basin in Tanzania later this year, and no news yet of a farm-out deal to lessen its cost exposure, Aminex plc has announced a placing to raise US$11.45 million and an

Nighthawk Sells The Centurion Project For US$5 Million To Support Jolly Ranch Development

Bouncing back from last month’s aborted Jolly Ranch deal, AIM-quoted Nighthawk Energy has sold its 50 per cent interest in the Centurion development project in Kansas for US$5 million in cash. The buyer, privately-owned Osceola

Oil Companies Balk At High Price Of Entry To Develop Iraq Fields

More than thirty years after nationalisation and four years after the post Saddam Hussein government came to power in Iraq, the government there is throwing open its doors to companies to come in and develop the country’s

End Of An Era For Meridian Petroleum As It Sells The Depleting Orion 36 Sour Gas Project

With its Orion 36 gas field in the US nearing the end of its productive life, Meridian Petroleum has decided to sell off its interest rather than the keep the high cost asset on its books. Wellmaster Production Company, contract

Midmar Energy Sells Onshore Fields For £2 Million As It Seeks Further International Expansion

Six months ago, privately-owned E&P Midmar Energy told oilbarrel.com of its plans to divest its two producing oilfields in the south of England in order to expand the business internationally. That goal has now been achieved,

EnCore Oil Gives An Update on The North Sea Breagh Gas Field Sale and Its Gas Storage Plans

The UK’s EnCore Oil has assembled a fairly large portfolio of assets principally in and around the UK and Ireland. An activity update from the group, recently released, shows operations are ongoing in many areas. At the Cladham

The Sell Off Which Saw Oil Prices Drop Last Week Has Proved Short Lived But There is Still Concern Over the Large Overhang of Inventories

The early sell off we saw this week was short-lived and oil re-gained strength by Friday. Attacks in Nigeria disrupted supply and the talk in the market is now questioning if those “green shoots” of recovery were actually weeds.

Shares In Gulf Keystone Gain As Shaikan-1 Finds Evidence Of Live Oil

Shares in AIM-quoted Gulf Keystone Petroleum gained 1.5 pence, up 13 per cent, to 13 pence on news that its Shaikan-1 well in Kurdistan has encountered live oil. The well, which is not yet even half way down to its target depth

Sound Oil Remains Frustrated By Bangkanai Delays But New Citarum PSC Seismic Should Help Define Future Exploration Strategy

The past 12 months have been difficult for Sound Oil but, unlike many of its AIM peers, its headline numbers point to a retained financial strength that will see it through the next 12 months. The company, which has kept a tight

Dominion Announces That An Independent Audit of Its Uganda Acreage Confirms There Is Very Significant Oil Potential In Its Exploration Area

We have written screeds about how Uganda, having been for years a no- man’s-land for oil explorers, many of whom would not think about the East African country let alone survey or drill there, has become one of the hottest new

Texon Petroleum Believes Its Texas Properties May Have Deeper Oil & Gas Shale Potential

Just as E&Ps operating in Europe increasingly like to have a market-friendly gas storage project on their books, companies working in North America like to have some oil and gas shale potential in their portfolio. AIM-quoted

Gulfsands Petroleum Announces The Success Of Another Development Well On Its Khurbet East Field In Syria

You could argue that if you wanted to learn about Gulfsands Petroleum, the London quoted oil and gas explorer and producer, now would be a good time to investigate. The company has just taken a group of London oil analysts from

Circle Oil Posts 2008 Results As It Readies For Production Growth In 2009

Losses widened at Circle Oil last year, from US$2.7 million in 2007 to US$10.7 million in 2008, as foreign exchange losses took their toll. Indeed, the headline number bears little relation to the successes the AIM firm is

Heaven and Earth, A New Look at Climate Change by Professor Ian Plimer

Last week research led by the Met office forecast that London could have summer temperatures up to 40 degrees C by 2080. The report said that flooding, storms, droughts and heatwaves are all to become more common as a result of

Artumas Group Inc.

Confirmation on Number of Shares Issued and Outstanding

Artumas Group Inc.

Successful Completion of New Convertible Bond Issue and Information on Issue of New Shares

VICTORIA PETROLEUM NL

Appendix 3B Exercise of Unlisted Options

Gulfsands Petroleum Plc

Total Voting Rights

Venture Production plc

Operational and Trading Update

PA Resources UK Limited

Production- and Sales Report for Q2, 2009

VICTORIA PETROLEUM NL

Wire Line Logs confirm Oil Pay Snatcher 1

OILEX LTD

Oilex Announces New Board Appointments

ELIXIR PETROLEUM LIMITED

Resignation of Director

Northern Petroleum

Cancellation of Share Premium Account

Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. Closes $13.5 Million Registered Direct Common Stock Offering

MAPLE ENERGY PLC

Resources and Exploration Programme Update

Nighthawk Energy

Sale of Interest in Centurion Project

Sterling Energy

Board Change

Resaca Exploitation

New Credit Facility

Ascent Resources

Notice of AGM

Aminex Plc

Placing and Open Offer

San Leon

Final Results for the year ending 31 December 2008

Northern Petroleum

Annual Report and Accounts 2009 and Notice of AGM

Midmar

Midmar Energy Announces Sale Of Uk Onshore Producing Assets For Gbp£2.0 Million