LS9 Wins Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award
Renewable Petroleum™ technology efficiently converts renewable raw materials into low-carbon fuels and chemicals

Williston Basin Petroleum Conference Attracting Oil Industry Leaders
2,000 industry officials expected to attend event at Bismarck Civic Center

Ports Petroleum Rolls out EchoSat SPG℠ to all Fuel Mart Stores
EchoSat's SPGý Delivers Robust Multi-Application EFT Transport Solution with PCI Compliant Device Management.

LS9 Purchases Florida Site to Manufacture Renewable Petroleum
Florida Facility Will Demonstrate Commercial Capabilities and Create Local Jobs

Tuscan Petroleum Signs Three-Site Deal for Aspect TradeFlo
Commodities trader deploys fast to implement, easy to learn SaaS solution.

Exprodat to Integrate Energy Datasets from IHS in Petroleum GIS Training Programme
Exprodat today announces an agreement to use energy GIS datasets from IHS Inc., a leading provider of information and insight to the energy industry, in its Petroleum GIS Training Programme. The relationship enables Exprodat to enhance its existing training workflows as well as develop new training scenarios based on alternative petroleum settings and geographic regions using IHS data. For further details of Exprodat’s Petroleum GIS Training Programme see www.exprodat.com.

Reliance’s PMS Prasad bags the Petroleum Economist Award
In a first for India’s energy sector, P.M.S. Prasad, Executive Director and CEO, Petroleum Business, Reliance Industries Ltd., has been named as the Energy Executive of the Year 2008 by the Petroleum Economist. The recognition is part of the Fourth Edition of the Petroleum Economist Awards, the prestigious awards in the Global Oil & Gas Industry. Through the awards, the London based magazine, Petroleum Economist, recognizes the people and organizations who have made significant contributions to the industry and its future.

Manas Petroleum Short-Term Share Price Targeted at $ 1.65; Long-Term Share Price of $ 6.56 by Independent Research Firm
Baar, Switzerland, September 5, 2009: Manas Petroleum (OTCBB: MNAP) reports that Cohen Independent Research Group, Inc., an independent research company based in San Rafael, California has issued a comprehensive research report featuring Manas Petroleum and the development of its several major light oil projects all located in proven oil reserve provinces.

Extracting Fossil Fuels for Energy and Electricity
Everyone knows that Americans rely heavily on fossil fuels. Much of our electricity is generated by the burning of coal. Furthermore, you probably cook your dinner on a natural gas range, and you pump gasoline into your car's fuel tank every couple days. What you might not know are some of the different ways these raw materials are extracted from the Earth.

Exprodat Launches New ArcGIS Training Courses for Petroleum Professionals
Exprodat announces the launch of two new Petroleum GIS training courses: 'Play Fairway Mapping with ArcGIS' and 'Building and Managing an E&P GIS'. The new courses are the latest additions to Exprodat's Geospatial Training Programme for E&P, a series of classroom based training modules designed to help oil and gas geoscientists benefit by applying GIS technology to common petroleum workflows. More details are available at http://www.exprodat.com.

Exprodat Announces White Paper on Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis for Petroleum GIS Sector
Exprodat announces white paper entitled 'Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis - Optimizing Interpolation of E&P Datasets' for use by Petroleum exploration and production (E&P) sector geoscience and GIS professionals. The paper, which can be downloaded for free from http://www.exprodat.com, explains techniques for selecting suitable interpolation methods for creating accurate surface models using ESRI's ArcGIS platform.

All About Petroleum and Electricity
Without petroleum, the world would probably come to a screeching halt. Petroleum and its byproducts serve a lot of purposes for mankind, but the most important is probably the energy it provides us. Everyone knows that most cars run on gasoline, a fuel refined from crude oil, but the electricity in some homes across the United States is generated by petroleum as well.

omNovia Web Conference Bridges Petroleum Technology Professionals To Universities
omNovia Technologies Inc. has been selected to webcast the 2009 Digital Energy Conference organized by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), to be held on April 7 and 8, 2009 at the Marriott Westchase in Houston, Texas. Faculty members and students from 26 top universities around the nation will remotely participate in presentations and panel discussions via omNovia Live.

Quorum Presents at 2009 ESRI Petroleum User Group Conference
One Size Rarely Fits All: Managing GIS Content and Functionality