SCOTTSDALE, AZ  March 25, 2011 (Investorideas.com energy newswire) - American Petro-Hunter, Inc. (OTC.BB:AAPH) ("American Petro-Hunter" or the "Company") today is pleased to announce that the Company has acquired a majority working interest in an additional 2,000 acres of lands located in Payne County, Oklahoma. The acreage augments the Company's holdings at the North Oklahoma Project to 3,400 total gross acres.

 

With this recent acquisition, the Company has designated the new lands as the "Ripley Prospect" and the original lands as the "Yale Prospect," with both areas held as regional components of the North Oklahoma Project. The newly acquired Ripley acreage is located in a key area of an emerging horizontal drilling play where over 100 foot thick sections of Mississippi Formation are currently being aggressively exploited by regional players deploying laterally drilled, horizontal wells.

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Suroco Energy Inc. Commences Production From Cohembi-2 Appraisal Well at 1549 bopd and Provides Operational Update

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Suroco Energy Inc. (TSX VENTURE:SRN) ("Suroco" or the "Corporation") is pleased to announce that the first appraisal well of the Cohembi pool in the Suroriente Block commenced production on March 22, 2011 at a rate of 1549 barrels per day (226 barrels per day net to the Corporation after royalties).

Mr. Alastair Hill, the Corporation's President and Chief Executive Officer commented, "The target in Cohembi-2 was the Villeta N sand and the well encountered a very high quality reservoir with oil pay from top to base of the interval and commenced production at 1549 barrels per day (226 barrels per day net to the Corporation after royalties).

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CALGARY, ALBERTA - March 22, 2011 (Investorideas.com Newswire) - AROWAY ENERGY INC. (TSX VENTURE:ARW; PINK SHEETS:ARWJF) (the "Company") Further to its March 3, 2011 news release, the Company provides the following update on its 2011 joint venture drilling operations in the Peace River Arch area of Alberta. The Company's first well of the 2011 exploration program has now been drilled, cased and completed and is awaiting pipeline tie-in. This multi-prospect exploration well was drilled to an approximate depth of 2300 meters targeting the Leduc formation. The Company is paying 50% of all costs associated with this well to earn a 50% interest in the well. Upon completion of the tie-in to its joint venture partner's pipeline and facilities, stabilized production numbers for this successful well will be released.

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SCOTTSDALE, AZ  March 15, 2011 (Investorideas.com energy newswire) - American Petro-Hunter, Inc. (OTC.BB:AAPH) ("American Petro-Hunter" or the "Company") is very pleased to announce that as part of an ongoing drill program at the North Oklahoma Project in Payne County, Oklahoma, the latest oil well identified as NOS227 was drilled to a T.D. (total depth) of 3,820 feet and has been categorized as commercially viable.

 

NOS227 cut all three objectives as planned, these being the Mississippi of 85 feet, Woodford Shale of 45 feet and the lower Simpson of 4 feet. All three zones contain oil shows and following a suite of electronic logs, have the requisite permeability and porosity to produce oil in commercial quantities such that an immediate casing election was made.

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Passport Energy Announces Closing of Second Tranche of its Private Placement for Bakken Drilling Program

Calgary, Alberta CANADA, March 08, 2011 /FSC/ - Passport Energy Ltd. (PPO - CNSX), announces that it has closed its second tranche of a non-brokered private placement on 6,559,000 units for gross proceeds of $1,639,750.

On January 6, 2011, the Company announced the non-brokered private placement for a maximum of 20,000,000 units at a price of $0.25 per unit, for total gross proceeds of up to $5,000,000. Each unit is comprised of one (1) common share and one (1) share purchase warrant. Each warrant entitles the holder to purchase one (1) additional common share of the Company for a period of eighteen months at a price of $0.35 per share. The private placement will be subject to regulatory approval.

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