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Eagleford Energy Provides Details on Drilling at Eagle Ford Shale Well

Eagleford Energy Inc. (OTCBB "EFRDF"), announces that it has successfully drilled the vertical portion of its initial Mathews/Dyami 1-H well through the Eagle Ford shale formation and to a depth of 5,114 feet to the Del Rio formation on its 85% working interest Matthews Lease comprising 2,629 acres of land in Zavala County, Texas.

27 Oct 2010

Pioneer Natural Resources Reports Drilling Results from Three Wells in Tunisia

Pioneer Natural Resources Company (NYSE:PXD) today announced the successful drilling of three wells during the second and third quarters of 2010 in the Company's operated Cherouq Concession and Anaguid Permit in southern Tunisia.

27 Oct 2010

Shale and Sands Oil Recovery Develops New Breakthrough Method for Oil Shale Production

Shale and Sands Oil Recovery LLC, a private company, has developed and patented a new method for producing useable oil from oil shale.

26 Oct 2010

Natural Resources Updates on Oil Shale Research Lease

Natural Resources USA Corporation, (OTC Bulletin Board: AALA), previously known as AmerAlia, Inc., announced that it has been advised by the Washington office of the Bureau of Land Management that its nomination for an Oil Shale Research, Development, and Demonstration lease in Colorado has been advanced to the next stage of its review process.

26 Oct 2010

Harvest Natural Resources Reports Reserve Increase at El Salto Field

Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE: HNR) today announced an increase in reserves attributed to Petrodelta, S.A., Harvest's 32% indirect owned Venezuelan affiliate.

21 Oct 2010

Pacific Rubiales Executes Farm-in Agreement for Blocks in Guatemala

Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (TSX: PRE; BVC: PREC) announced today that it has executed a Farm-in Agreement with Flamingo Energy Investment Ltd., Chx Guatemala Limitada, and Compania Petrolera del Atlántico, S.A., through which the Company will earn-in a 55% participating interest, as well as operatorship, in the "7-98" Contract, which corresponds to the area known as "A-7-96", made up of the "N-10-96" and "O-10-96" blocks located in the Republic of Guatemala.

19 Oct 2010

Sterling Resources Provides Details on Cladhan Discovery

Sterling Resources Ltd. (TSX-V:SLG) has announced updated Contingent and Prospective Resource numbers for the Cladhan discovery as a result of recently announced drilling success of two sidetracks from the original discovery well 210/29a-4.

19 Oct 2010

Flint Energy Wins Field Construction Contract from Imperial Oil Canada

Flint Energy Services Ltd. announced that it was awarded a new six-year contract by Imperial Oil Canada Limited for field construction work in Western Canada.

19 Oct 2010

Ante5 Signs Agreement to Acquire Mineral Lease Stakes in North Dakota and Nevada

Ante5, Inc., a Delaware corporation entered into an asset purchase agreement with Twin City Technical, LLC, a North Dakota limited liability company, and Irish Oil and Gas, Inc., a Nevada corporation to acquire Sellers' right, title, and interest in mineral leases on approximately 3,712 net acres in consideration for a total of $2,969,648 of cash, payable in full at the closing, plus 5,011,281 shares of the common stock of the Company.

15 Oct 2010

Appraisal Well Tests Enables Apache to Plan Balnaves Field Development

Apache Corporation (NYSE, Nasdaq: APA) said today that three successful wells appraising the Balnaves-1 discovery in License WA-356-P offshore Western Australia will trigger development planning by subsidiary Apache Julimar Ltd Pty.

15 Oct 2010