Lundin Mining Corporation is pleased to provide an update on the Tenke Fungurume Copper/Cobalt Project, in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo. Lundin Mining holds a 24.75% interest in Tenke Fungurume. The project is under construction by operating partner Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (”Freeport”). Upon completion of this first phase of Tenke development, the [...]

USR Technology, Inc., is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Letter of Intent, dated July 3, 2008, with Euroslot SA, a private French company which specializes in the production of metallic filtration separation media for the oil and gas drilling industry.
The letter of intent with Euroslot addresses two principal areas. The first [...]

Frost & Sullivan presented General Cable with the 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Growth Excellence in the Energy Cables market. The Award recognizes General Cable for serving a diverse set of customers, with wide ranging applications, on a truly global scale.
The company has achieved consistent growth in the world interconnects space – [...]

Earth Search Sciences, Inc., announced the acquisition of General Synfuels International, Inc. (GSI) and its patented technology to recover hydrocarbons through an environmentally-conscientious gasification process.
GSI has agreed to the buyout involving an undisclosed amount of cash and shares. The acquisition enables key Earth Search subsidiary, Petro Probe, Inc., to establish a joint venture and commercial [...]

SBM Offshore N.V. is pleased to announce the following contract awards:
1. BP Angola FPSO
A call off frame contract has been obtained from BP Angola in support of a development programme offshore Angola. The initial contract call off has been signed for early engineering and fabrication works to support enhanced local fabrication capability in the region.
Subject [...]

NACTO Group Inc told the press saying that the company has just been awarded a $24.9 million contract to provide membrane separation technology and equipment to capture CO2 for re-injection in Bouri, Libya’s largest offshore oil field. An oil company operating in the Mediterranean Sea, operates the Bouri production platforms, one of which will house [...]

More than quadrupling GeoGRAFX GIS Services’ office space, the new offices at Oracle Road and Prince Avenue contain on-site training rooms, specially designed to support the complex needs of today’s professionals in mineral exploration and mining. Founder and President Barbara Carroll notes, “Our new offices have been specifically designed to support best practices in GIS [...]

Optimal Solutions Integration, Inc., an SAP® channel partner authorized to resell the SAP Business All-in-One solution to midsize companies in North America, and a leading consulting and staffing firm that has achieved premier-level status in the SAP Consulting Partner Program in North America, today announced that the company’s new Optimize LodeOne for metals and mining [...]

Tres-Or Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce that macro-diamond processing has commenced on the large sample extracted from the Lapointe kimberlite pipe, located about 80 km southeast of Timmins, Ontario. More than 50 tonnes of kimberlite was extracted (see February 11, 2008 news release) and has been shipped to the Stornoway Diamond Corporation (Toronto:SWY.TO) [...]

FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that it signed a contract with StatoilHydro for the manufacture and supply of additional subsea equipment for its Norne field development, located in the Norwegian Sea. The contract, valued at approximately $87 million in revenue, is a call-off from a frame agreement that was originally signed in 2007.
FMC’s scope of supply [...]