Brigham Exploration Company announced the completion of a well on its Bakken Shale acreage. Brigham Exploration Company has a 31% working interest in the well.

The Lee 16-21 #1H had an initial production rate during its first 24 hours of production of approximately 1,544 barrels of oil equivalent (BOE), composed of 1,341 barrels of oil and 1.22 million cubic feet of natural gas.

“We’re very pleased with the early production performance of our Lee well. It’s our fifth consecutive long lateral, multi-stage completion in our approximate 100,000 net acres in Rough Rider, with early peak production rates averaging approximately 1,752 barrels of oil equivalent per day,” said Bud Brigham, the CEO of Brigham Exploration Company.

Brigham Exploration Company said the well was completed using a multi stage hydraulic fracturing operation. Hydraulic fracturing involves injecting water and other fluids into the well to stimulate and increase production.

The well is located on the company’s

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Ionfinity is an expert in commercializing emergent technologies via strong partnerships with the U.S. Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Air Force (USAF). A subsidiary of the VIASPACE family, Ionfinity is a pioneer in bleeding-edge Mass Spectrometry (MS), a technology which allows for real-time sampling and analysis of trace amounts of a substance.

Ionfinity enjoys a continuous relationship of development with the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA), NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Ionfinity also maintains partner programs with General Dynamics Corp., Imaginative Technologies LLC., and Sionex Corporation.

Ionfinity is currently developing applications of its proprietary “soft-ionization” technology, capitalizing on a vast wealth of experience in miniaturization, to produce truly next generation MS sensors capable of “sniffing” molecular concentrations of a substance in the parts-per-trillion to sub-parts-per-billion range within

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BOISE, IDAHO–(Marketwire – 09/15/09) – U.S. Geothermal Inc. (TSX:GTH)(AMEX:HTM) (”U.S. Geothermal”), a renewable energy company focused on the production of electricity from geothermal energy, announced today that the U.S. Department of Energy (”DOE”) has formally awarded the Enhanced Geothermal Systems (”EGS”) grant that was announced on October 14, 2008. The Raft River EGS program now totals up to $10.21 million, with the DOE providing up to $7.39 million as part of the cost-sharing arrangement. The program is designed to perform a staged, thermal stimulation of an existing injection well to improve permeability within the geologic horizon that hosts the Raft River geothermal reservoir.

The program team is being led by the Energy & Geoscience Institute from the University of Utah. Team members APEX Petroleum Engineering Services, and HiPoint Reservoir Imaging are providing key technical service and contributions. U.S. Geothermal is providing “in kind” contributions to the program through the

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Ecosphere Technologies, Inc., a diversified water engineering and services company primarily focused on the natural gas industry, announced that the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma approved a permit application by Newfield Exploration Mid-Continent, Inc. to build and operate a water recycling plant utilizing the Ecosphere Ozonix Water Treatment System for two years. Newfield is now able to process frac flowback water into freshwater and brine utilizing Ecosphere’s Ozonix System.

Ecosphere Energy Services, LLC, President, Dennis McGuire stated, “We appreciate the Commission’s granting of the permit to utilize our Ozonix technology in Oklahoma. Their representatives visited our site twice during the pilot program to witness the Ozonix System working and took samples for independent testing. It was a lengthy and deliberate procedure to gain Commission approval and their efforts will help to preserve Oklahoma’s precious water resources.”

He continued, “The Ecosphere Ozonix System will also result in fewer trucks on the road hauling water

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Ecosphere Technologies, Inc., a diversified water engineering and services company primarily focused on the natural gas industry, recently announced that the company’s oil and gas environmental services subsidiary, Ecosphere Energy Services, Inc. has signed a long-term agreement with two wholly owned subsidiaries of SEECO, Inc. to deliver 24 of its EcosFrac EF-600 units within the next 150 days.

Ecosphere’s EcosFrac technology kills bacteria in water used during hydraulic fracturing without the use of toxic chemicals. This master service agreement calls for Ecosphere Energy Services to provide its environmental services to SEECO’s subsidiaries for a minimum of two years with a maximum of five years.

Dennis McGuire, Ecosphere Energy Services president, stated, “During our recent pilot program in the Fayetteville Shale, we demonstrated that our EcosFrac technology is effective killing bacteria at the volumes and rates required during hydraulic fracturing without the use of chemical biocides.” He concluded, “We are pleased to

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The New York Times has an article today reporting that domestic Natural Gas reserves are 35% higher than previously estimated due to improved ability to tap deep shale deposits. (Zacks Equity Research senior analyst Sheraz Mian has also posted a blog on this earlier.) This helps explain why natural gas prices are so low relative to oil prices. In terms of energy content, there is a 6:1 ratio between an MCF [thousand cubic feet] of gas and a barrel of oil. At the current futures price of $4.12 an MCF, natural gas is going for the equivalent of only $24.72 a barrel, a massive discount to the current $71.06 price of oil. This will make a very significant difference to your energy investments. At least for the near term, look for E&P companies that are "oily," like Denbury Resources (DNR) rather than "gassy" like ...

Ecosphere Technologies, Inc., a diversified water engineering and services company primarily focused on the natural gas industry, recently announced the successful results of the company’s pilot Fayetteville Shale testing. Ecosphere’s mission is to identify, create and produce clean technologies that are economically viable and improve the quality of life and protect the environment.

According to results from an independent lab, the tests confirmed that the EcosFrac technology killed the bacteria and passed the seven-day test for sulfur reducing bacteria at Ecosphere’s stated flow rate. The company’s EcosFrac process is a non-chemical electro-ozonation procedure that kills bacteria in frac water at 10 barrels per minute, and is part of Ecosphere’s Total Frac Water Management service.

Dennis McGuire, Ecosphere Energy Services president, stated, “In addition to treating flow-back and produced waters we are now able to offer the energy companies we serve a non-chemical process to kill bacteria in the water they use

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The Gas Prices Rollercoaster: Why Energy & Infrastructure Are Inextricably Combined

by David Fessler, Advisory Panelist, Investment U Friday, January 16, 2008: Issue #917

President-elect Obama takes office in less than a week’s time. While many will be watching closely to see how he handles the ongoing financial crisis, I’ll be equally interested to see how he handles a far more ominous one: our ongoing energy and infrastructure crisis.

Regular readers know I believe energy and infrastructure are inextricably combined. We need cheap energy to fuel sustained economic growth. And we need infrastructure in place to move and dispense the energy from its source to its destination. Today I’m going to give you a perfect example of how the two are intertwined, and how one can play off the other to create a positive benefit for all.

In the face of gas prices that are less than half of what they were only a

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Gastar Exploration Ltd. (AMEX: GST) is an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, development, and production of natural gas and oil in the United States and Australia. The company focuses their efforts on identifying, acquiring, and exploring possible natural gas and oil properties that show the potential to produce significant product. Their emphasis rests on prospective deep structures identified through seismic and other analytical techniques, as well as unconventional natural gas reserves, such as coal bed methane (CBM).

The company’s primary coal bed methane properties are found in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana, and in the Gunnedah and Gippsland Basins of Australia. Their drilling activities are focused on exploiting their multi-year inventory of drilling locations in the Deep Bossier Sands and Knowles Limestone plays in the Hilltop area of East Texas, as well as the emerging Marcellus Shale play in Appalachia.

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