ICL-Industrial Products Announces Merquel(TM), a New Product Line to Reduce Mercury Emissions From Coal Fired Plants
ICL Industrial Products (ICL-IP) is launching Merquel(TM), a new product line for reduction of mercury emissions from coal fired power plants, kilns and incinerators. The Merquel(TM) product line is based on ICL-IP’s line of inorganic bromides tailored specifically to be applied in various proprietary technologies developed in recent years to reduce mercury emission. Mercury is a neurotoxin affecting...
ICL Announces Record Share Repurchase Program
Israel Chemicals Ltd., a multinational fertilizer and specialty chemicals company, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved its intention to commence a stock repurchase program of up to five percent of its outstanding Ordinary Shares over a ten month period through June 30, 2009. The share purchase program, which could amount to NIS 3.5 billion ($971 million) according to yesterday’s...
LUKOIL, ConocoPhillips’ Yuzhno Khylchuyu Field Production Begins
OAO LUKOIL President Vagit Alekperov and ConocoPhillips Chairman and CEO Jim Mulva today participated in a special ceremony on the occasion of the startup of the Yuzhno Khylchuyu (YK) field located in the Nenets Autonomous District. One of the biggest fields in the north of the Timan Pechora oil and gas province, this field is developed by OOO Naryanmarneftegaz, a LUKOIL and ConocoPhillips joint venture...
Transmeridian Exploration Incorporated and Transmeridian Exploration Inc. Extend Consent Payment Deadline and Expiration Time
Transmeridian Exploration Incorporated and its wholly-owned subsidiary Transmeridian Exploration Inc. announced that they have extended the consent payment deadline and expiration time with respect to their exchange offer and concurrent solicitation of consents to amend the indenture governing TMEI’s 12% Senior Secured Notes due 2010 (the “Existing Notes”) (CUSIP Nos.: 89376NAC2,...
MIPSolutions, Inc. Announces Selectivity Results for Molecularly Imprinted Ionomer (MII) Beads
MIPSolutions, Inc., a Nevada corporation with offices in Spokane, WA, today announced that third-party laboratory analyses has verified that the Company’s recently developed MIP (Molecularly Imprinted Polymer) bead has successfully separated gold from a gold cyanide solution loaded with mercury without also removing mercury. The MIP bead was first pioneered at the Company’s laboratory at the University...
Fraser Institute seeking responses to worldwide upstream petroleum survey
The Fraser Institute, Canada’s leading independent research organization, is soliciting responses to its first international upstream petroleum survey. Based on the popular Fraser Institute Survey of Mining Companies, the Worldwide Upstream Petroleum Survey is designed to help measure and rank the investment climate of various oil and gas producing regions. “The information we get from...
Livermore Lab to escalate depleted uranium testing
If it’s news to you, you’re not alone. Livermore National Laboratory has been testing radioactive devices ”“ exploding depleted uranium and tritium into the open air ”“ just 50 miles east of San Francisco since 1961. And now the lab has a permit to raise the amount of radioactive material they detonate yearly from 1,000 to 8,000 pounds. Those who know are spreading the word...
Norways’s Seadrill makes mandatory bid for Eastern Drilling UPDATE
Norwegian oil industry offshore services group Seadrill Limited announced it has decided to make a mandatory bid for the outstanding shares in Eastern Drilling ASA — responding to a fine imposed by the Oslo Bors — at a price of 135 nkr a share. The company said that a draft offer document for the bid has been filed with the Oslo stock exchange. “The offer price is in line with what...
Annual Mining Symposium Coming to WJU
Following a year highlighted by the passage of landmark mine-safety legislation at both the state and federal levels, and 16 months removed from two catastrophic accidents that killed 14 West Virginia miners, the International Mining Health and Safety Symposium returns to the Ohio Valley later this month to build on the progress and momentum of initiatives designed to improve safety in the mining industry. Hosted...
United States Announces Clean Air Act Settlement With Two Oil and Gas Companies In Illinois
The United States government and the state of Illinois today reached a Clean Air Act (CAA) settlement with oil producers Rex Energy Operating Corp. and PennTex Resources Illinois, Inc. which will result in reduced emissions from the companies’ facilities in Illinois. The settlement is the result of an exposure investigation which was initiated in response to citizen complaints, and requires the...
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