The Petroleum Museum isn’t just for tourists anymore.
This summer, children have a chance to discover exciting information about chemistry and the Permian Basin area with the museum’s special twist on learning.
The museum offers a Harry Potter Science Camp next week, a Wild Wild West Adventure Camp in July and a movie camp that runs [...]

Greymouth Petroleum has a busy series of appraisal wells scheduled at its onshore Kaimiro and Ngatoro fields, and the company has scheduled a new well to appraise extensions of the historical Motoroa oilfields on the New Plymouth shoreline, according to New Zealand Crown Minerals.
Outlining these plans, John Sturgess the chief operating officer for Greymouth Petroleum, [...]

The Pearl GTL project includes the development of offshore natural gas resources in the North Field, transportation and processing of gas for extracting natural gas liquids and ethane, and the conversion of some gas into clean liquid hydrocarbon products.
QP and Shell said once completed the Pearl GTL facility would be the largest integrated gas-to-liquids complex [...]

A company was using an older Ronningen-Petter REACTOGARD Catalyst Protection Filter. Due to a recent increase in demand, they needed to escalate the volume while at the same time change the composition of the feedstock.
Unfortunately, the existing filter was in need of repair (valves and controls), and as a result, it was backwashing too frequently [...]

The South Australian Chamber of Mines and Energy says SA needs to invest more in power, water, roads, rail and ports to take advantage of the mining boom.
A summit in Adelaide today will bring together delegates from the mining industry, Government and education and training to put together an infrastructure blueprint for the state.
The chamber’s [...]

Sao Luis Mining, Inc. (Other OTC:SAOL.PK) announced today the completion of its first round of financing. The Company’s private placement offering generated $500,000 and was secured by the Company’s common stock and stock warrants.
Jack Lake, Chairman of the Board and President, said, “The proceeds of this private placement are one of the first steps in [...]

Jean Oxford has waited almost a year and a half for violations caused by an in-stream gravel mining company to be fixed.
Oxford, who lives in Yellville near Crooked Creek with her husband, Kenneth, was one about 40 people who voiced their concerns about approving three in-stream gravel mining permits during a two-hour Arkansas Department of [...]

MELBOURNE In 1959, Australia’s benchmark index hit a record 156 as Japan’s industrialization sparked a mining boom. That’s also when 21-year- old Bruce Teele started work as a clerk at the country’s largest stockbroker.
Almost half a century later, the All Ordinaries Index is at 4907. Teele, now chairman of Australia’s biggest listed investment trust, has [...]

Gold miner Newmont Mining Corp. said Thursday its second-quarter income jumped to $161 million, or 36 cents per share, on revenue of $1.31 billion.
That compares to income of $50 million, or 11 cents per share, on revenue of $997 million in the second quarter of 2005.
Newmont (NYSE: NEM) is based in Denver.
Gold sales jumped to [...]

Pennsylvania should enact a state plan forcing coal-fired power plants to cut mercury emissions 90 percent by 2015, rather than adopt less stringent rules favored by the Bush administration, witnesses told a public hearing yesterday.
All but one of 30 speakers who addressed the state’s Environmental Quality Board sitting in Norristown sharply criticized a federal plan [...]