Oil and Gas

Borders & Southern plc (LSE:BOR) surprised the market this afternoon by releasing the results of the fluid sample taken from the Darwin well it drilled back in January this year. Shares closed 56.1% higher than yesterday to 32 pence, three hours after the Falkland Islands-focussed oil and gas explorer said the recoverable volume of gas […]

Quadrise Fuels International (LSE:QFI) has been having quite a week.  Today hasn’t been so bad either.  At 9:00 am its share price had skyrocketed by 72.5% over yesterday’s close of 5.88 pence, and 113.6% over one week ago, when it was trading at 4.75 pence.  Having reached 10.145 pence, it tapered off to 8.89 pence […]

Agriterra (LSE:AGTA) is a Mozambique based multi-commodity focussed agricultural business. It owns cattle, ranches, abattoirs and plans to open local butchers, alongside Maize milling, again in Mozambique, and Cocoa & palm oil operations in Sierra Leone. Like the Chairman, Phil Edmonds, these aren’t the only feathers in Agriterra’s cap – they also have a meaty 20% […]

Red Emperor Resources NL (LSE:RMP) (ASX:RMP) requested to halt trading of its shares on the Alternative Investment Market today, prior to the release of the latest update of the exploration activities from its Shabeel North well in Puntland, Somalia. The move, nonetheless, did not shake rumours of an impending doom amongst investors but rather sparked […]

Independent oil & gas company, Afren plc (LSE:AFR), released its results for the first six months of 2012 much to the delight of its shareholders.  Although shares had risen only slightly by the end of the noon hour, the next few days ought to continue to bring a positive response to such a strong report. […]

Genel Energy plc (LSE:GENL) continues to secure its position as the biggest oil and gas producer in the autonomous region of Kurdistan, in Iraq, and has recently signed a deal taking a further 26% interest in another oil field in the said region. In a statement announced today, the London-listed firm said it signed a […]

The shares price of Xcite Energy (LSE:XEL), though in an overall downward trend, is giving buyers a unique opportunity to buy very cheap and ride their profits to the sky. While it is good to follow the line of the least resistance, one should know when the least resistance would become the greatest resistance. Normally, […]

The share price of Royal Dutch Shell (LSE:RDSA) moved modestly downward today, perhaps in response the company’s announcement that of its “swap” of natural gas assets with Chevron in Western Australia.  Shell opened the day at 2,259 and declined steadily to 2.238 by 1:00 pm. Summary of the Swap In the simplest of terms, according […]

AIM-quoted Jubilant Energy N.V. (LSE:JUB) has concluded its’ Phase III drilling programme in India, after successfully testing the last of the seven wells at its only producing Kharsang field, the company said today. KHG-64, the seventh well, is now flowing at a rate of 226 barrels of oil per day (bopd) after reaching a depth […]

AIM-quoted companies, Irish oil and gas firm Petroceltic International plc (LSE:PCI) and Scotland-based Melrose Resources plc (LSE:MRS) agreed to a merger to create a “regionally focussed independent oil and gas company”, the two companies disclosed today. Merger talks, which caught some investors by surprise, had been in place since February 2012, following a confidentiality agreement […]