DENVER, Dec. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Gasco Energy, Inc.

HOUSTON, July 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Newfield Exploration Company (NYSE: NFX) today provided a comprehensive update on its Uinta Basin oil development programs. The update follows the May 2011 closing of two acreage acquisitions for approximately $300 million.

HOUSTON, Jan. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE: HNR) today provided an operational update for its 32-percent-owned Venezuelan affiliate, Petrodelta, S.A.

Geologists have found evidence that some 55 million years ago a river as big as the modern Colorado flowed through Arizona into Utah in the opposite direction from the present-day river.

THE WOODLANDS, Texas, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Branta LLC (privately held) today reported that Branta Exploration & Production LLC (Branta) completed the drilling and initial testing of nine highly successful oil and gas wells in the Uinta Basin of Utah from the Green River, Wasatch and Mesaverde formations which exceeded management's expectations. Branta has established three foundational oil and natural gas opportunities in the Uinta Basin of Utah: Altamont-Bluebell Potential Major Southerly Extension The Bar F # 1-20-3-2 discovery well commenced oil production on March 24, 2010 in the center of the Uinta Basin, Utah testing at a stable average rate of 900+ barrels oil per day of 42 API yellow wax crude and 650 thousand cubic feet per day (Mcfd) of natural gas with approximately 1,400 pounds of flowing tubing pressure.