Friday, August 1, 2025

BPZ Energy Reports Year-end 2014 Reserves

BPZ Energy (BPZ) (BPZ), an independent oil and gas exploration and production company, today announced the results of an independent evaluation of the Company’s certified year-end 2014 oil reserves at offshore Block Z-1. The following discussion includes BPZ Energy’s 51% interest in oil reserves and associated production for the Albacora and Corvina fields at Block Z-1. Oil reserves are presented

Dawson Geophysical and TGC Industries Shareholders Approve Strategic Business Combination

MIDLAND, Texas and PLANO, Texas, Feb. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Dawson Geophysical Company (“Dawson”) (DWSN) and TGC Industries, Inc. (“TGC”) (TGE) announced that at their respective special meetings of shareholders held on February 9, 2015, each company obtained sufficient votes for each proposal required to consummate the previously announced proposed strategic business combination between Dawson and TGC. Pursuant to the Agreement

Resolute Energy Corporation Bounces Back

REN Closes at $1.20 DENVER, Feb. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Resolute Energy Corporation (“Resolute” or the “Company”) (REN) today announced that it had received notification on February 3, 2015, from the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) that the price of Resolute’s common stock has fallen below the NYSE’s continued listing standard.  The NYSE requires that the average closing price of a

Russia Update: Ukraine Related Sanctions Have Stopped Critical Oil & Gas Investment

Russia’s oil and gas industry faces many obstacles in today’s market, but sanctions may be causing the most damage For the first time in a decade Russia’s credit rating was downgraded to junk by Standard & Poor’s rating agency last week as the Russian economy continues to weaken under the weight of an increasingly bleak outlook. Low oil prices have

ETP Simplifies Structure with $20 Billion Sunoco Acquisition

Columbia Pipeline Partners Kicks off Oil & Gas IPOs in 2015

Columbia Pipeline Partners (ticker: CPPL) began trading on the New York Stock Exchange today following its spin-off from NiSource Partners (ticker: NI). Under terms of the spin-off, CPPL is transferred NI’s pipeline and storage assets, while NI retains ownership of its natural gas and electric utilities. The company priced 46,811,398 common units at $23.00 per unit, above the initial estimate

Fracking puts California governor, environmentalists at odds

Story by the Associated Press In the 1970s, the environmental movement had no bigger political hero than California Gov. Jerry Brown. He cracked down on polluters, ended tax breaks for oil companies and promoted solar energy. Forty years later, in his second go-around as governor, conservationists are among his harshest critics. Climate change is one of Brown’s key issues, and

Japan’s trading houses to step up asset sale to defy resource slump

Story by Reuters Faced with mounting writedowns on energy and metals assets, Japan’s trading houses are looking to step up the sale of assets to offset weaker income from resource businesses and fund shareholder returns, while reining in investment. Like global oil majors and miners, Japan’s trading companies have been caught flat-footed by the rout in commodities, with oil <CLc1>

Petrobras Announces New CEO and Executive Officers

Source: Petrobras Petróleo Brasileiro SA – Petrobras informs that its Board of Directors, in a meeting held today, has approved with majority vote the election of Aldemir Bendine as CEO of Petrobras replacing the current CEO, Maria das Graças Silva Foster. Maria das Graças Silva Foster is also leaving the Company’s Board of Directors, which elected Aldemir Bendine as its

Special Report: Anatomy of Nigeria’s $20 billion “leak”

From Reuters: In late 2013, Nigeria’s then central bank governor Lamido Sanusi wrote to President Goodluck Jonathan claiming that the state oil company had failed to remit tens of billions of oil revenues it owed the state. After the letter was leaked to Reuters and a local news site, Jonathan publicly dismissed the claim and replaced Sanusi, saying the banker had mismanaged the central bank’s budget.

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Martin Midstream to Sell NGL Barges

Martin Midstream Partners (ticker: MMLP) announced yesterday that it entered into an agreement to sell six liquefied natural gas barges for a total price of $41.25 million. MMLP has decided to exit the natural gas liquids floating storage and trans-loading business. The company purchased the six barges in 2013 when it entered the floating storage and loading business. All proceeds

Core Laboratories Draws on Experience to Navigate New Market

Projecting oil recovery within fiscal year Core Laboratories (ticker: CLB) closed the book on 2014 as its most profitable year in company history in its Q4’14 earnings release on January 28, 2015. Revenue for fiscal 2014 was $1,085 million, up 1% from 2013’s total of $1,074 million. Net income experienced a much higher jump, climbing to $257 million from $242