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Kolberg Kravis Roberts & Company and CP Realty to present at Bakken Investor Conference MINOT, N.D., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- KKR and CP Realty will speak to a group of oil and gas companies, real estate developers, and investors about their Williston Basin investment path--from oil and gas to real estate-- in the Williston Basin at the 2013 Bakken Investor Conference in Minot, ND. KKR made its first significant investment in the Bakken in 2011 when it purchased Samson...

MINOT, N.D., April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The 3(rd) Annual Bakken Investor Conference brings together oil and gas companies and investors along with real estate developers and investor to connect and explore emerging investment opportunities in the Bakken Shale play. The conference affords the attendees the advantage to: Discover high-growth investment opportunities. Identify investments with unique revenue models. Obtain the latest data on market conditions and development...

CUT BANK, MT, April 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Mountainview Energy Ltd. (TSXV: MVW) ("Mountainview" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the appointments of Mr. Justin K. Balkenbush as Vice President, Operations and Mr. Joseph Montalban as Vice President, Business Development. Mr. Balkenbush is a registered professional engineer who has been active in the oil and gas industry for over twenty (20) years beginning in 1991 when he worked summers on workover rigs in Northern...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online India collided with Asia, creating the Himalayas, 10 million years later than previously thought, according to new research published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL). MIT researchers found that the collision between India and Asia occurred 40 million years ago, rather than the previous belief of 50 million years ago. “India came running full speed at Asia and boom, they collided,” Oliver Jagoutz, an author of the...

DALLAS, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: SMLP) announced today that members of SMLP's senior management team will meet with investors at the RBC Capital Markets 2012 MLP Conference in Dallas, Texas on Thursday, November 15, 2012 and Friday, November 16, 2012. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120927/MM82470LOGO) A copy of the presentation materials will be made available on SMLP's website (www.summitmidstream.com) under "Investors"...

DENVER, Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- QEP Resources Inc. (NYSE:QEP) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101116/LA02638LOGO) QEP Resources Inc. ("QEP" or the "Company"), today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary QEP Energy has entered into two definitive agreements with multiple sellers to acquire significant crude oil development properties in the Williston Basin for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $1.38 billion (the "Acquisition"). The properties are...