Shares of Empire Energy Corporation are currently trading at $0.039 a share, higher by $0.016 or 69.57%. Turnover in Empire Energy is heavy with large volume of nearly 5.5 million shares which is well in excess of the average daily volume of a little over 200,000 shares. Empire Energy was highlighted recently, on August 28th, at a price of $0.025 per share in QualityStocks’ FREE Daily Newsletter, which focuses on small-cap and micro-cap companies.

Empire Energy is a small international oil and gas exploration company who is currently focused on exploring Tasmania’s central and northern basins. Recent news indicated that the company’s seismic work has potentially discovered oil resources in the basins of roughly 668 million barrels. If this oil can be produced and sold at today’s oil prices, it could mean total revenues for the company of $45 billion.

Empire Energy is just another example of the type of companies that

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Sometimes innovative ideas are washed away and sometimes brilliant ideas are overlooked. Malcolm Bendall may be a genius who has been overlooked.

For over 30 years, Bendall, the CEO of the Kansas-based company Empire Energy Corporation International has been trying to convince the world that there is undiscovered oil and gas buried in Tasmania, Australia where neither has ever been found. In the process, Bendall has raised tens of millions of dollars for seismic and other geological studies that indicate the possibility that he may have been right. Soon, we will know if Bendall is right.

Last week, Bendall announced that Empire has become the first company to drill for oil and gas in Tasmania. Upon starting this process, it has been discovered that the independent firm RPS Energy has estimated the prospective presence of over 2.2 Billion barrels of trapped petroleum on Empire’s Tasmanian licensed area.