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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...
MINOT, N.D., March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The 3nd Annual Bakken Investor Conference connects investors with oil and gas companies and real estate developers to explore investment and development opportunities in the Bakken Shale play. 2013 Bakken Investor ConferenceApril 24-26, 2013Sleep Inn & SuitesMinot, North Dakotawww.bakkenconference.com Dale Brown - Author, Motivational Speaker, Retired Hall of Fame LSU Basketball Coach and Minot, North Dakota NativeThe conference kicks...
FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology Enjoying Spanish participation, an international group of researchers have analyzed the most recent history of the Alhama de Murcia fault. They discovered that it has experienced six major earthquakes above 7 on the Richter scale. According to the scientists, this provides "convincing evidence" that the maximum earthquake magnitudes in the area are higher than originally thought. Since 2001, researchers from the Universities of...
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...
HELENA, Mont., July 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bakken Resources, Inc. (BKKN: OTCQX) ("BRI") is pleased to announce that on July 3, 2012, it completed a transaction whereby it purchased a 17% working interest participation in an oil well located in Archer County, Texas, referred to as the "3A" well. The 3A well is currently operated by Holms Energy Development Corp. ("HEDC"), an entity controlled by the Registrant's CEO, Val Holms. HEDC is selling BRI 17%, or approximately 1/3, of HEDC's...
HOUSTON, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Oasis Petroleum Inc. (NYSE: OAS) ("Oasis" or the "Company") today provided an update on its operations in the Williston Basin. Oasis increased average daily production to 17,633 barrels of oil equivalent per day ("Boepd") in the first quarter of 2012, up from 15,243 Boepd in the fourth quarter of 2011 for an increase of 16%. During the first quarter of 2012, Oasis grew production by 118% compared to the first quarter of 2011. "Our first...
CUT BANK, MT, Dec. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Mountainview Energy Ltd. (TSXV: MVW) ("Mountainview" or the "Company") is pleased to announce an operational update on the completion of the Olson 1-21-16HÂ horizontal well, which spudded in April 2011 in the SESE-Section 21-Township 29 North, Range 57 East, Roosevelt County, Montana by G3 Operating, LLC. ("G3"), a subsidiary of GeoResources, Inc., a U.S. Public Company traded on NASDAQ. Drilling and fracturing operations on the...
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, Nov. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- JayHawk Energy, Inc. (OTC Markets: JYHW) announces today that it has brought a fourth well online for production in Divide County, North Dakota ending a string of nine months with less than a majority of wells producing. Oil production in North Dakota has been hampered severely by flooding and subsequent poor road conditions since February 2011. The Company's "Kearney" well remains non-producing as a result of continued high water and...
CUT BANK, MT, Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Mountainview Energy Ltd. (TSXV: MVW) ("Mountainview" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that 5,975,753 of the outstanding warrants have been exercised for a total of $1,912,241.  These warrants were issued with the RTO Private Placement completed on February 14, 2011 and expired on August 14, 2011. The Company will use the proceeds from the exercise of these warrants to fund horizontal Bakken and Three Forks drilling...
TSX-V: "MVW" CUT BANK, MT, July 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Mountainview Energy Ltd. (TSX-V: MVW) ("Mountainview" or the "Corporation") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a binding letter of intent (the "Letter of Intent") to acquire (the "Acquisition") a 20% interest in approximately 67,000 acres (approximately 13,400 net acres) in the Medicine Lake Prospect located in Divide County, North Dakota and Richland, Roosevelt and Sheridan County, Montana (the "Assets"). ...
