Origin Energy Resources (Kupe) Limited said that the Ensco 107 drilling rig for the Kupe Gas Project is now expected to arrive in June 2007, delayed from the original planned date of March 2007.
Project Director for the Kupe Gas Project, Mr. Peter Ashford said “This delay does not affect our critical path and the Project [...]

Orchard Petroleum says the new drilling program at the Forbes Project has commenced with the spudding of the South Buckeye 1-18 well. The Forbes Project is located in the Sacramento Basin which is in the northern part of California.
The Kenai # 3 rig began drilling the South Buckeye 1-18 well on October 24th and has [...]

FORT WORTH, Texas - Union Drilling Inc. said Friday executive vice president of operations J. Michael Poole resigned for personal reasons.
Poole, 46, leaves next Tuesday.
President and chief executive Christopher Strong will take over Poole’s duties while a search for a new vice president continues.
Shares of the natural gas drilling contractor gained 20 cents to close [...]

PORTLAND, Ore. - PacifiCorp said it is cutting construction plans for coal plants in half, but opponents are not satisfied.
PacifiCorp has been under pressure from watchdog groups and Oregon state regulators who oppose the company’s plans to build four coal plants.
And a block [...]

At least 14 people were today trapped after a gas explosion in a coal mine owned by the armed forces in northwest China, an official said.
The incident occured in a coal mine located at Dianchanggou township in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region after a gas explosion shook the mine, leaving 14 people trapped underground, Huang Guoqiang, [...]

In the portfolio of possibilities for the development of Alaska energy resources, coal gasification has taken a prominent position in the past year.
In November 2005 Agrium announced its Blue Sky project, to use coal gasification as an alternative to natural gas to feed its fertilizer plant at Nikiski on the Kenai Peninsula — in August [...]

Hyundai Steel Co. , South Korea’s second-largest steelmaker, signed an agreement to buy iron ore and coal from Cia. Vale do Rio Doce and Rio Tinto Group as it begins construction today on a $5.5 billion expansion.
The steelmaker may buy as much as 5 million metric tons of iron ore a year from both Brazil’s [...]

LOCAL conservationists have mounted a campaign to pressure the government against the reissuing of a prospecting licence for bauxite mining in the Cockpit Country, which is believed to be one of the richest sites of biological diversity locally.
The Cockpit Country Stakeholders group, which includes the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET), the Southern Trelawny Environmental Agency (STEA) [...]