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Manitok Energy Inc. – Oil and Gas in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

Manitok Energy Inc. (CVE: MEI) is an oil and gas exploration and development company focused on conventional reservoirs in the Canadian foothills and heavy oil in east central Alberta. The company has assembled a portfolio of properties, with varied play-types, in Alberta, Canada. All of these projects are at the drill-ready stage, with recent drilling operations completed on the Swimming property last fall and another drill underway on their Stolberg lands. In mid 2010, Manitok merged with Desco Resources Inc. and raised almost $10 million in order to go public. At the end of December 2010, Manitok completed an $18.1 million equity financing of both common and flow through shares. Manitok is expecting a capital program of about $21 million in 2011.

EnCana Profit slipped, but beats Street on Oil Sands

EnCana Corp, Canada’s biggest energy company, declared its second-quarter profit slipped 80 percent as oil and gas prices sank, but operating results beat expectations on a strong showing from its oil sands division. For full story, click here

SRIC’s Heavy Oil from Tar Sands report

SRIC’s Heavy Oil from Tar Sands report reviews the status of the global tar sands business focusing on Alberta, Canada where sand deposits represent 174 billion barrels of oil, 15% of the global reserves and second only to Saudi Arabia. For full story, click here

Upgrader:Canadian election in focus

By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Market news Ouch! For our Canadian investors in commodities, times have certainly been better. The TSX has been dragged downward by mining and energy concerns this week, and investors are understandably worried. Some see it as a natural part of a cycle, others as a [...]

Damage due to mississippi heavy oil spill not as bad as first feared

Andy Nyman, The Louisiana State University assistant professor of wetland wildlife and ecology, was quoted as saying: He expected to see much more shoreline damage at the mouth of the Mississippi River after a July 23 oil spill near the Crescent City Connection dumped an estimated 400,000 gallons of oil into the river. For full [...]

Deloro Resources Ltd: Unique Corporate Vision

Overview Deloro Resources Ltd is a young, emerging junior oil and gas company with a unique corporate vision. The company has chosen to acquire projects that are considered depleted yet still have substantial oil left in the ground that was not recoverable using conventional methods. Deloro will then apply an Enhanced Oil Recovery system and [...]