Americas Energy Company, a consolidator of high-quality energy properties with projects in both Kentucky and Tennessee, recently announced that the company, along with Trend Technology Corporation, sold the initial production from its first oil well. This oil well is on a timed pumping program in order to extend its production life and is currently producing 15 barrels to 20 barrels of oil per day.

Chris Headrick, president and co-chief executive officer of Americas Energy Company, stated, “The sale of the production from our first oil well to Somerset Energy Refining in Somerset, Kentucky has set the stage for our oil division. We have entrusted the development of that division to Mr. Jimmy A. Dunn Jr., as our vice president of oil and gas.”

Mr. Headrick continued, “Based on the success of the first well, Mr. Dunn and Americas Energy Company have established an aggressive development plan to initiate production on our

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Treaty Energy Corp. acquires, develops and produces oil and natural gas, seeking out leases with proven, but undeveloped reserves. The company yesterday announced an agreement to acquire 54 oil and gas leases and their respective production equipment in Kansas.

The leases span 6,700 acres and include 662 “stripper wells,” oil wells that produce 10 barrels per day or less for 12 consecutive months. According to the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), stripper wells make up about 84 percent of domestic oil wells, contributing to more than 20 percent of all domestic oil. Treaty said the acquired stripper wells in Kansas run an average of 900 feet in depth, making them more economical than comparable wells in other areas.

Of the 662 wells, 450 are currently producing, generating about 115BBLS per day. The company said additional wells have been drilled and will soon be in full-swing production, boosting production

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Precision Petroleum Corporation is an independent energy company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, and development of oil and natural gas properties in North America. Trading on the OTCBB, the company’s objective is to seek out and develop opportunities in the oil and natural gas sectors that represent a low risk opportunity. In addition, they look to define larger projects that can undergo development with Joint Venture partners.

Precision Petroleum Corporation entered into a joint venture agreement that grants the company first right of refusal on a Montana based Oil, Gas and Coal property. The focus of Phase 1 of this project is on developing an initial 1,600-acre segment after an in depth engineering program. From data obtained, this area is where management intends to drill their first 10 wells.

In late June of this year, Precision Petroleum Corporation announced that they recently completed the purchase of a working interest in

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Avalon Oil & Gas Inc. is a domestic oil and natural gas producer with leases currently in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. The company’s strategy is to use efficient reservoir maintenance and innovative oil recovery technologies on previously abandoned wells in order to produce much-needed hydrocarbon energy.

Avalon believes that global conditions in the energy market present the company with an attractive investment opportunity for proven technologies which will expand oil production efficiency in already-established oil fields. There is definitely oil to be recovered – according to the Department of Energy there is the potential to recover over 43 billion barrels of additional oil from stranded oil reserves and mature oil wells in the United States.

Finding additional oil will be important in the upcoming years. Why? The same old story – supply and demand. The supply of oil is steadily declining while

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Brazil is making a national commitment to develop energy resources located far offshore in the South Atlantic. Indeed, no nation has ever advanced such an ambitious plan for long-term comprehensive offshore development. And it’s being bankrolled by China.

Much of Brazil’s South Atlantic development will require drilling wells in waters up to two miles deep, through four-five miles of rock beneath the seabed. The prize at the end will be oil deposits with reserves estimated in the tens of billions of barrels. With access to this offshore bounty, Brazil expects to take its place among the first ranks of energy-producing nations in the world.

Brazil’s state-controlled national oil company (NOC), Petroleo Brasileiro SA (NYSE:PBR) plans to spend over $175 billion in the next five years just on offshore development. The immense investment involves buying and building dozens of new drill ships and seagoing platforms, along with many dozens more support and

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In normal recessions, commodities prices fall - and stay down for the count - as mines, farms and oil wells continue to expand production, even as demand is flattened by the economic malaise. Well, not this time around. And that figures to make commodities a profitable defensive investment. Indeed, we’ve uncovered four of the very best ways to profit from this trend. Let me explain. The Journal of Commerce commodities price index leaped 9.5% in May, the largest one-month gain since the index was first compiled back in 1985. Oil prices, which bottomed in the $30-a-barrel range, are pushing once again towards $70 a barrel - not the all-time record of $147 touched last year, but still very high on a historical basis. And gold is trading at roughly $980, close to its all-time peak and extremely high by historical standards. So what’s going ...

Avalon Oil & Gas Inc. is an independent domestic oil and natural gas producer. The company’s strategy is to use efficient reservoir maintenance and innovative technology to generate stable cash flows and production from a portfolio of oil and gas lease properties in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas.

Here is a brief overview of the rest of Avalon Oil & Gas properties:

Avalon has a 10% working interest in the New Diana Field, which is located in Upshur County, Texas. The property consists of thirteen wellbores, which include six producing oil wells, three salt water disposal wells and four shut-in or marginally producing wells. The working interest was purchased from an Oklahoma independent oil producer who continues to be a partner in the property.

These wells were originally drilled in the 1960s by various operators. This property produces significant volume of salt water and as a

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AM Oil Resources & Technology Inc. (AMOR.OB) shares surged 7.69 percent to 28 cents in today’s mid-morning trading, moving on last week’s analyst rating by Beacon Equity Research. Beacon analyst Victor Sula recently gave the company a Speculative Buy rating, with a 63-cent target price, highlighting the company’s Portable Steam Generator System, Portable Thermo-Gas Repressurizing System and its Deep Steam Generator technologies.

AMOR’s licensed technologies equip the company with a competitive edge as it emerges as an innovator in oil production from low-producing oil wells. According to the recent Beacon report, after 30 to 40 years of pumping, up to 80 percent of oil in a formation still remains in the ground. That’s where AMOR’s technologies take the lead.

The company’s steam and gas injection technologies have the ability to recover about 50 percent of the remaining oil from previously pumped wells. There

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AM Oil Resources & Technology Inc. announced yesterday after the closing bell that the company has targeted the Bakersfield, California oil industry as its initial target market. Surrounded by the prolific Kern River County oilfields, Bakersfield is an oil, mining, and agricultural center at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley in South central California. Kern County is home to 18 giant oil fields that have produced more than 100 million barrels of oil each, including four “super giants” that have each produced over 1 billion barrels of oil. According to the San Joaquin Geological Society, approximately 31,000 oil wells have been drilled in the county and 10% of U.S. production comes from this region.

“The Bakersfield area and Kern County in general is an important target market for our patented Portable Steam Generators,” commented Keith A. Johnson, CEO of AM Oil Resources

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Oil as a commodity is an interesting real asset. What investments most directly create the economic effect of owning oil itself?

The best answer would be to own an oil well, or better yet, own an entire oil exporting country.  However, neither of those options is a practical answer for most investors, certainly not owning a country (unless, of course you are born into the right family).

So what are the practical options for the rest of us?  Among others, they include:

futures contracts funds that invest in futures contracts exchange traded notes that are priced to a futures index royalty trusts that own oil in the ground integrated oil companies oil & gas exploration companies oil & gas production companies general energy funds alternate fuels options on any of the above.

Options are a speculation that expire in time, so we’ll exclude them from the “ownership” consideration.  Futures provide a 1:1 price participation, but they also expire with time, and rolling from

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