Privately held United American Energy Corp. has opened a field headquarters in Ravenna, Ky. The company’s new center of operations will be closer to its producing oil wells. The center had been in Clay City, Ky.

United American Energy vice president of operations Bobby Short says the new 1,500-sqaure feet field headquarters is expected to improve the company’s operating efficiency and support its growth strategy in Estill, Lee and Powell counties.

Short says that through 2007, the company launched a well rework and infrastructure improvement program with the objective of stimulating oil production from legacy wells dating back to the early 1900s. To date more than 135 wells have been reworked throughout the company’s approximately 6,000 acres of oil fields contributing to the target of 6,000 barrels of oil production per month in 2008. Additional lease, well rework and infrastructure improvements are scheduled through the end of 2010.

He adds that the company has installed an advanced communications system to allow instant communication between its employees in the field and the company’s field headquarters and emergency contacts.

“Due to the limited number of cell towers in the region, mobile phone communication was not a practical or dependable solution,” Short says. “This new technology will allow continuous and reliable communication between our employees and company headquarters during normal operations and when an urgent situation arises.”

United American’s core assets are in Estill, Lee and Powell counties in Kentucky. JAS