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Future of Mining Exploration in Kenya
Even with reports that Kenya could have struck oil in Lodwar, the fuel situation in the country has been declared a crisis at the highest levels of Government. And the situation doesn’t look promising.
Industry experts now say that there is little the country can do besides planning for the future.
Kenya imports crude oil for national [...]
Canadian Mining company, Vangold Resources Ltd, Signs Deal to Explore for Oil
Canadian-based, Vangold Resources Ltd, has signed a production sharing contract (PSC) with Kenya’s Ministry of Energy to explore oil on Block 3A in the North Eastern Province.
This is the third exploration contract to be signed with an international oil company in three weeks.
Block 10A went to Camec International of the UK, Block 11 to the [...]
Oriental Completes Farm-In of Ebok Field From Mobil and NNPC
Sovereign Oil & Gas Company II, LLC has received Nigerian government approval of the farm-in by Oriental Energy Resources Limited of Nigeria into the Ebok Marginal Field located in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 67, which is owned by Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil Corporation, and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. The Ebok [...]
Synenco releases coal resource estimates
Synenco Energy Inc., managing partner of the Northern Lights Partnership (NLP), today released its first independent estimate of coal resources on NLP’s coal lease application area. The coal resource estimate is based on data from 652 exploration holes and the associated Technical Report, dated May 8, 2007, has been prepared by independent qualified persons with [...]
Premium Petroleum Corp. Announces Additional Seismic Acquired Adjacent to Its Boyne Lake Flowing Oil Sands Prospect, for a Total of 7 Lines / 31kms
Premium Petroleum Corp. is pleased to announce that the Company has acquired an additional 4 lines of seismic data totaling 23kms (14 miles) in length, on lands adjacent to the discovery well on its Boyne Lake Flowing Oil Sands Prospect. The Company now has acquired 7 lines of seismic totaling approximately 31kms (19 miles) in [...]
New Madrid Seismic Zone May Be Cold And Dying, New Evidence Shows
New results about the temperatures of rock deep below the New Madrid Seismic Zone in the central United States shed light on the puzzling questions of why large earthquakes happened there in 1811 and 1812 and when they may happen again.
Scientists from Northwestern University, the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center and the University [...]
Russia spins global energy spider’s web
The vast bulk of the world’s oil, gas and strategic minerals resources either is coming under or is already under the control of authoritarian, or less-than-democratic, or leftist, or otherwise radical regimes either with a decidedly anti-Western political stance and ideology or pointedly decreased sensitivities to strategic US interests.
It is difficult to name more than [...]
