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Total Energy Services Inc. Plans to Repurchase Shares

CALGARY, ALBERTA–(Marketwired – Sept. 28, 2015) – Total Energy Services Inc. (“Total”) (TSX:TOT) announced today that it has filed a Notice with the Toronto Stock Exchange (the “TSX”) to undertake a normal course issuer bid that will expire on September 29, 2016. Total has been informed that the TSX has accepted its notice to make the normal course issuer bid.

VAALCO Energy Adopts Stockholder Rights Plan

HOUSTON, Sept. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — VAALCO Energy, Inc. (the “Company” and “VAALCO”) (NYSE: EGY) today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the adoption of a stockholder rights plan (the “Rights Plan”).  The Rights Plan is designed to proactively assure that all of the Company’s stockholders receive fair and equal treatment in the event of a proposed acquisition of

DNB Sees Bullish Signals in the Shale Patch - Oil & Gas 360

What Will El Nino Do to Natural Gas Supply?

Oil markets are still adjusting to levels of oversupply, but the demand imbalance has become an old hat of sorts for the natural gas industry. El Nino is unlikely to do the gas market any favors in the upcoming winter season. Natural gas inventories are nearing five year highs, as evidenced by EnerCom’s Natural Gas Roundup inventory report, and the

Oil Rig Count Reaches Five-Year Low

Total rig count continues decline for fifth consecutive week The current price environment has continued to put downward pressure on the number of active rigs operating in the United States. For the fifth consecutive week, Baker Hughes (ticker: BHI) reported the number of rigs in the U.S. declined, ending at 838, down from 842 a week ago. The number of

Oil & Gas 360 - Haynes & Boone Borrowing Base Redeterminations Survey

What will the New SEC Price Deck Mean for Reserves?

Every year, oil and gas companies are required by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) to report their proved oil and gas reserves. By reporting these reserves, companies give their investors a meaningful understanding of the resources the company controls that it believes it could economically produce, establishing the size of the company’s reserves. To qualify under SEC guidelines as “proved

China Set to Form State Oil and Gas Midstream Company

China looks to break oil and gas monopoly with new structure, further reforms The Chinese government is moving forward with plans to shake things up at its oil and gas monopolies. Reports say China will take the oil and gas transportation operations currently under the control of state-giants China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC; ticker: CEO), China National Petroleum Corp

GE to create 1,000 energy jobs in the U.K.

Story by The Washington Bureau As the Export-Import Bank remains shuttered, the export credit agency’s biggest customers are adding jobs in countries that will finance their sales. General Electric (GE) once again on Thursday cited the lack of Ex-Im Bank financing as the reason why it’s expanding operations overseas. This time, GE reached an agreement with the United Kingdom’s export

Stone Energy Corporation Provides Production, Operational and Conference Update

Stone Energy Corporation (SGY) today provided a production, operational and conference update. On September 1, 2015, Stone shut-in its Mary field in Appalachia curtailing approximately 100-110 Mmcfe of production per day, leaving approximately 25 Mmcfe per day producing from the Heather and Buddy fields in Appalachia. Low commodity pricing, including negative differentials in the region, combined with fees for transportation,

Goodrich Petroleum Announces Private Exchange Transactions for Senior Unsecured Notes and Expected Amendment to its Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement

Goodrich Petroleum Corporation (GDP) (the “Company”) today announced that it has entered into separate, privately negotiated exchange agreements under which it will retire approximately $158.2 million in an aggregate original principal amount of its outstanding 8.875% Senior Notes due 2019 (the “Existing Notes”) in exchange for its issuance of $75 million in an aggregate original principal amount of its 8.875%

North Dakota gives industry 10 extra months to cull flaring

Story by Reuters North Dakota regulators on Thursday gave the energy industry 10 extra months to curb the amount of natural gas burned off at oil wells, acquiescing to industry worries that construction delays have made it all but impossible to meet existing targets. The North Dakota Industrial Commission voted unanimously to require the state’s oil producers to collect 85

Approach Resources Announces Reaffirmation of Lender Commitments in Credit Facility at $450 Million

Approach Resources Inc. (AREX) today announced that it has completed the scheduled semiannual borrowing base redetermination of its revolving credit facility, and as a result, the bank group has set the lender commitment amount and borrowing base at $450 million. Under the terms of the credit agreement, the bank group redetermines the borrowing base semiannually using the banks’ estimates of