Gossan Resources Limited has retained Hatch of Montreal, Canada, to provide engineering process support for the Inwood Magnesium Project The agreement covers a 5-phase work program culminating with the opening of a Certificate of Authorization file with the Manitoba government for construction and environmental approvals for a production facility at Inwood, located in south-central Manitoba.
The [...]

CONSOL Energy Inc., the nation’s largest producer of bituminous coal, and Synthesis Energy Systems Inc., a global industrial gasification company, intend to develop through a joint venture their first U.S. coal gasification and liquefaction plant to be located in West Virginia. CONSOL (through its subsidiary Terra Firma Company) and SES have formed Northern Appalachia Fuel [...]

Franklin Mining, Inc. Chairman and President, William A. Petty, is pleased to announce that a letter of agreement has been signed with Synfuels International, Inc., Dallas, TX. Mr. Petty and Mr. Ben R. Weber, Jr, CEO and Chairman of Synfuels, yesterday reached an agreement addressing the environment and steps to be taken prior to finalizing [...]

PAN AFRICAN MINING CORP. is pleased to report that it has just purchased four additional drill rigs for its exploratory programs in Madagascar. The rigs will be shipped from Canada as and when available over the next 30 days and are anticipated to be available for use on site in the coming months. The Company [...]

Despite its wealth of oil and natural-gas reserves, Iran has faced a gas crunch as people turn up the heat this winter. Partial or total energy cutoffs were reported in 11 provinces, with residents of colder western provinces worst-affected, and exports to Turkey were suspended for five days.
The National Iranian Gas Company issued a statement [...]

Canadian stocks may struggle to build on this month’s rally as energy producers such as Petro-Canada may fall along with oil prices.
Losses in the market may be limited after Alcan Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. reported earnings that exceeded analysts’ estimates.
The Standard & Poor’s/TSX Composite Index may also be supported by higher prices for industrial [...]

BACK in 1999, when she was the head of refining at Chevron, Patricia A. Woertz told a group of energy officials that it was time to stop mixing agricultural policy with fuels policy.
In that same speech, at a fuels conference in Washington, Ms. Woertz also publicly expressed worry about the unintended consequences of a federal [...]

Drastic coal shortages despite massive natural deposits have had a ripple effect throughout Zimbabwe’s economy and ruined a deal to renovate the country’s biggest steelworks, the government has acknowledged.
The energy crisis adds to the economic woes of Zimbabwe, which is already suffering from acute shortages of many basic commodities.
Industry Minister Obert Mpofu told a panel [...]

Harry Anthony looked the people of Goliad County straight in their eyes and basically said, “Trust me.”
Anthony, chief operations officer of Uranium Energy Corporation, addressed about 75 people attending the afternoon session of Wednesday’s uranium educational conference in Goliad.
The two-day educational conference was organized by Uranium Information at Goliad, a citizens committee concerned with the [...]

As lawmakers on Capitol Hill prepare for negotiations on competing proposals to expand domestic offshore oil and gas drilling, most Democrats running to replace Rep. Ed Case in the U.S. House say they would not support the lower chamber’s version of the bill.
“Clearly, H.R. 4761 is a knee-jerk solution that endangers the environment, namely coastal [...]