News by subject: OIL/GAS EXPLORATION UPDATE

Torchlight Energy Resources, Inc. ("Torchlight" or the "Company"), today announced that stimulation of the Penn formation has been successfully completed on the University Founders A25 #1H horizontal well in the Orogrande Project. A total of six...

Africa Energy Corp. ("Africa Energy" or the "Company") is pleased to announce both the renewal of Petroleum Exploration License 37 ("PEL 37") offshore the Republic of Namibia and the signing of a rig contract. The PEL 37 joint venture...

Corridor Resources Inc. ("Corridor" or the "Company") is pleased to announce an update to its guidance to reflect significantly higher natural gas prices for the period from April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018. In addition, the Company reports the...

MagneGas Corporation ("MagneGas" or the "Company") , a leading clean technology company in the renewable resources and environmental solutions industries, today provided a sales update on ESSI, its Florida-based industrial gas and welding supply...

Africa Oil Corp. ("Africa Oil", "AOC" or the "Company") (OMX:AOI) is pleased to provide the following update on activities in the South Lokichar basin (Blocks 10BB and 13T in Kenya). AOC has a 25% working interest in Blocks 10BB and 13T with Tullow...

GoldQuest Mining Corp. (BERLIN: M1W) ("GoldQuest" or the "Company") is pleased to report that in a press conference today in Santo Domingo that Minister Isa Conde, the Minister of Energy and Mines ("MEM") of the Dominican Republic, has completed...

Spartan Energy Corp. ("Spartan" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has approved a development capital budget of $183 million for 2018. This capital budget reflects Spartan's continuing commitment to our business...

ShaMaran Petroleum Corp. ("ShaMaran" or the "Company") (OMX:SNM) reports that operations in the Atrush field in Kurdistan are continuing in a normal, safe and secure manner. Atrush is currently producing at approximately 27 thousand barrels of oil...

Tellurian Inc. (Tellurian) announced today that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued the notice of schedule for environmental review of Driftwood LNG, a proposed 27.6 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) liquefied natural gas (LNG)...

AltaGas Ltd. (AltaGas) is pleased to announce that on December 1, 2017 commercial operations commenced at its North Pine NGL Separation Facility (North Pine Facility). The $120 million project was completed ahead of schedule and approximately $15...

Torchlight Energy Resources, Inc. ("Torchlight" or the "Company"), today provided an operational update on its projects.Hazel Project:Flying B Ranch #3:To date the Flying B Ranch #3 has attained a highest measured production rate of 465 BOPD and 248...

Torchlight Energy Resources, Inc. ("Torchlight" or the "Company"), previously announced on November 16th that the Company had entered into a transaction with Greg McCabe and an independent private E&P out of Denver to enter into the Delaware Basin...

Torchlight Energy Resources, Inc. ("Torchlight" or the "Company"), today announced that the Company has contracts in place to enter into an acreage position in the prolific Delaware Basin Wolfbone play in Winkler County, TX through transactions with...

Africa Oil Corp. ("Africa Oil" or the "Company") (OMX:AOI) is pleased to provide the following update on its operations in Kenya. Exploration and Appraisal (Blocks 10BB and 13T) The 2017 exploration and appraisal drilling campaign...

Tethys Petroleum Limited ("Tethys" or the "Company") today announces a corporate update. Update on Gas Drilling Program Further to the update provided by the Company on September 28, 2017, drilling company Great Wall has completed...

ShaMaran Petroleum Corp. ("ShaMaran" or the "Company") (OMX:SNM) reports that operations in the Atrush field in Kurdistan are continuing in a normal, safe and secure manner. Exports from Atrush are continuing via the Kurdistan Export Pipeline system...

Torchlight Energy Resources, Inc. (TRCH) ("Torchlight" or the "Company"), today provided an update to the flowback process underway on its Flying B Ranch #3H well. The initial barrels of load water to be recovered measured 318,000 and while early...

Petrus Resources Ltd. ("Petrus" or the "Company") continues to focus on expanding its core Ferrier operating area, improving the Company's balance sheet, lowering its cost structure and growing the Company's production and resulting funds from...

AltaGas Ltd. ("AltaGas") announced today that commercial operations commenced at its 99 Mmcf/d shallow-cut natural gas processing facility (Townsend 2A), located on the existing Townsend site, adjacent to the currently operating Townsend Facility....

ShaMaran Petroleum Corp. (OMX:SNM) ("ShaMaran" or the "Company") is pleased to report that an agreement for the sale of Atrush oil has been signed between Taqa Atrush BV. (on behalf of the Atrush co-venturers) and the Kurdistan Regional Government...

Tethys Petroleum Limited ("Tethys" or the "Company") today announces a corporate update. Approval Received for Continuation of Oil Production The Company's subsidiary Tethys Aral Gas LLP ("TAG") was recently notified by the...

Chinook Energy Inc. ("Chinook") is pleased to provide the following operational update on its Birley/Umbach property. During the second quarter of 2017, Chinook successfully completed a four well (3.63 net) (the a-81-F, b-90-G, 02/d-5-K, and...

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ShaMaran Petroleum Corp. ("ShaMaran" or the "Company") (OMX:SNM) is pleased to announce that drilling operations have commenced on the Chiya Khere ("CK-7") appraisal and development well in the Atrush Block in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. CK-7 is...

NuVista Energy Ltd. ("NuVista" or the "Company") is pleased to provide a significant operational update including the startup at Bilbo block of our largest pad drilled to date; powerful IP30 success from Elmworth block high intensity fractured wells...

Torchlight Energy Resources, Inc. ("Torchlight" or the "Company"), today announced that the frac stimulation has been completed on its Flying B Ranch #3H well. All 28 stages were delivered per the Company's plan and the coiled tubing unit is now on...

Torchlight Energy Resources, Inc. ("Torchlight" or the "Company"),today announced that the previously announced frac procedure on its first horizontal well in the Company's Permian (Midland) Basin Hazel Project is underway. Due to a cancellation,...

Torchlight Energy Resources, Inc. ("Torchlight" or the "Company"), today provided an operational update covering the Company's West Texas Orogrande Basin Project and Hazel Project located in the Midland Basin area of the Permian.Orogrande Basin...

Canacol Energy Ltd. ("Canacol" or the "Corporation") is pleased to provide the following update for the Picoplata 1 well in Colombia. Picoplata 1 Exploration Well VMM3 Exploration and Exploitation ("E&P") Additional Contract, Middle...

Africa Oil Corp. ("Africa Oil", "AOC" or the "Company") (OMX:AOI) is pleased to provide the following update on its operations in Kenya. Kenya Exploration and Appraisal The exploration and appraisal campaign in Kenya has...

Blackbird Energy Inc. ("Blackbird" or the "Company")  is pleased to provide an operational update regarding its 2017 delineation and development program and expansion of the Eastern Pipestone/Elmworth Gathering System ("Eastern Gathering System")....

ShaMaran Petroleum Corp. ("ShaMaran" or the "Company") (OMX:SNM) is pleased to report that oil started flowing through the Atrush Central Processing Facility on July 3, 2017 at approximately 12:00 CEST. Production is expected to ramp up in 2017 to...

Penn Virginia Corporation ("Penn Virginia" or the "Company") today announced initial results from its Zebra 6H and 7H wells, updated results for its Lager 3H well and an increase in the borrowing base under its credit facility from $128 million to...

ShaMaran Petroleum Corp. ("ShaMaran" or the "Company") (OMX:SNM) is pleased to report that preparations for first oil production are substantially complete. The Operator, TAQA Atrush B.V., expects that oil production will commence early next week....

Canacol Energy Ltd. ("Canacol" or the "Corporation") is pleased to provide the following update for the Toronja 1 exploration well, the Corporation's eighth consecutive gas discovery in the Lower Magdalena Basin. The Corporation also announces the...

Westcore Energy Ltd. ("Westcore" or the "Company") announces that it has completed the initial drilling operations on its three well program at Flaxcombe, along with its partner Eros Resources Corp. The three well program commenced on June 1, 2017...

Crew Energy Inc.  ("Crew" or the "Company") has been informed by the Alliance Pipeline Limited Partnership ("Alliance") that it has detected slope movement in the vicinity of its pipeline system near the Wapiti River, approximately 25 km southwest of...

Torchlight Energy Resources, Inc. ("Torchlight" or the "Company"), today announced that it will move a rig onto location this week to commence drilling the Flying B Ranch #3H, the Company's first horizontal well to be drilled on its Permian Basin...

NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES WesternZagros Resources Ltd. ("WesternZagros" or the "Company") provides a corporate update and an operational update for its Garmian Block in the Kurdistan...

Prairie Provident Resources Inc. ("Prairie Provident", "PPR" or the "Company")  is pleased to provide an operational update including successful results from the first of the Company's four wells drilled and completed in Wheatland to date, as well as...

Canacol Energy Ltd. ("Canacol" or the "Corporation")  is pleased to provide the following updates for the Toronja 1 and Pumara 1 exploration wells, the 40 million standard cubic feet per day ("MMscfpd") gas pipeline project, and an update concerning...

Touchstone Exploration Inc. ("Touchstone" or the "Company") is pleased to provide the following operational update with respect to the Company's 2017 drilling campaign and recompletion program. Highlights...

Raging River Exploration Inc. (the "Company" or "Raging River") is pleased to announce an entrance into a new light oil focus area. The Company has been accumulating land over the last year and is pleased to announce that to date, it has...

Tethys Petroleum Limited ("Tethys" or the "Company")  today announces that it has successfully completed the installation of an Electrical Submersible Pump ("ESP") in its main oil producing well, AKD-01. AKD-01 has been producing...

Serinus Energy Inc. ("Serinus", "SEN" or the "Company") (WARSAW:SEN) announces that it has temporarily shut-in production at the Sabria field in Tunisia due to continued social unrest in the southern part of the country. Protestors in the...

Blackbird Energy Inc. ("Blackbird" or the "Company")  is pleased to provide an operations update regarding its previous completion programs, its planned fiscal 2017 / 2018 capital program at Pipestone and Stage Completions Inc.'s ("Stage") commercial...

Africa Oil Corp. ("Africa Oil", "AOC" or the "Company") (OMX:AOI) is pleased to announce that the Emekuya-1 well in Block 13T, Northern Kenya has encountered approximately 75 metres of net oil pay in two zones. Emekuya-1 is located 2.5 km...

Range Energy Resources Inc. ("Range" or the "Company")  announced today that, Gas Plus Khalakan ("GPK"), the sole contractor of the Khalakan PSC in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, issued an operations update regarding the Shewashan field. GPK,...

Bengal Energy Ltd. ("Bengal" or the "Company") today announces its exploration and operational update. EXPLORATION UPDATE: Natural Gas Demand In Australia, the significant increase in demand associated with newly...

Seven Generations Energy Ltd.'s  first quarter production averaged 153,100 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d), up 73 percent from the same period last year. With record quarterly production and stronger commodity prices, first quarter funds...