Bankers Petroleum Ltd., Calgary, (Toronto; London AIM: BNK) has closed the acquisition of approximately 250,000 net acres of unconventional assets in the northern and central regions of the United States from Vintage Petroleum LLC for C$30 million in cash and stock. The assets are in the Arkoma and Ardmore basins of Oklahoma, the Black Warrior Basin of Mississippi and Alabama, and the Appalachian Basin in New York. Bankers financed the deal with US$10 million in cash and the remainder in approximately 26 million Bankers shares at C$0.88 each. An additional C$1-million cash payment, along with approximately 30,000 net acres in the Palo Duro Basin in the Texas Panhandle, was transferred to third parties to settle competing claims.