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Vale to Build New Coal Terminal at Mozambique’s Beira Port

Cia. Vale do Rio Doce plans to build a terminal at Beira port in Mozambique to export coal from its planned Moatize mine.
The terminal will be able to handle 12 million metric tons a year and will have a storage capacity of 600,000 tons, Cezar Medina of Rio Doce Mozambique said at the Coaltrans conference [...]

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Big Sky Energy Announces Drilling Operations in Its Dauletaly Block, Western Kazakhstan

Big Sky Energy Corporation announced that its subsidiary KoZhaN LLP has commenced drilling Well DLT-33 in its Dauletaly Block, located on the north shore of the Caspian Sea in western Kazakhstan.
The well will be drilled to an approximate depth of 800m to test the Upper Jurassic sand formation in the Dauletaly Block. This new structure [...]

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Heartland Fractures 8 New Wells – Continues Installation of 8 Miles of Flow Lines to Wells Expected to Double Coalbed Methane Production

Heartland Oil and Gas Corp.has successfully fractured the coal seams in 8 of its newly drilled wells in Miami County, Kansas and preliminary testing of the Prothe 42-3 indicates that the wells will deliver methane production in significant excess of the amount originally anticipated. Heartland also has continued installation of about 44,000 feet of 4 [...]

Nexant Expands Global Gas Sector Services

Nexant announced today that three gas industry experts—Mike Fulwood, Brian Little, and John Conway—have joined the company’s global gas practice. The three are former principals and founders of Energy Markets Partners LLP, a U.K.-based energy consultancy specializing in natural gas markets. Additionally, Nexant has also acquired a unique proprietary natural gas model that was developed [...]

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Japan’s Nippon Steel Discontinues Import Of Anthracite Coal From North Korea

Japan’s largest steelmaker, Nippon Steel Corp. has discontinued the import of anthracite coal from North Korea because of North Korea’s test-launches of missiles and nuclear development program, sources said on Saturday.
Nippon Steel was the only Japanese firm importing anthracite from North Korea, accounting for about 13% of Japan’s imports from that country. The steelmaker had [...]

Talisman Mining Provides Update on Wonmunna Iron Project

Talisman Mining provided a drilling update, reporting that assay results have been received for a further 25 RC drillholes completed as part of the program of gridded resource drilling at the NMM (North Marra Mamba) prospect, Wonmunna project, East Pilbara region, Western Australia. Significant drill intercepts include 34m @ 59.16% Fe including 22m @ 60.50% [...]

Exterran Holdings buys EMIT Water Discharge Technology for $108 million

Oil and gas industry services company Exterran Holdings Inc. has recently told the press that the company it bought EMIT Water Discharge Technology LLC for $108 million.
Based in Sheridan, Wyo., EMIT provides water management and other services to the coal bed methane industry. The company removed salts and other dissolved solids from water generated through [...]

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AnorMED to Receive $3 Million Milestone Payment From Shire for British Fosrenol Approval

AnorMED Inc. said Monday it will receive a $3 million milestone payment from Shire Pharmaceuticals Group PLC, based on Shire’s recent licensing approval in Britain to sell Fosrenol as a treatment for high phosphate levels in the blood, which occurs in patients undergoing dialysis as a result of chronic kidney failure.
In March 2004, AnorMED sold [...]

Tempel Steel Officials and Mayor Richard M. Daley Announce Expansion of Chicago Manufacturing Facility

Mayor Richard M. Daley and officials from Tempel Steel, one of the north side’s largest companies, announced today that the company will expand and renovate its current manufacturing plant in Chicago, and bring more than 350 jobs to the city.
The Chicago-based company, which manufactures steel laminations used in electric motors and transformers, announced it would [...]

Uranium Star Corp. Provides Update on TSX Venture Exchange Listing Status

Uranium Star Corp. is pleased to provide an update relating to the Company’s application for Tier 1 status on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V)
The application process required a number of significant submissions to the TSX-V in order to meet their listing criteria. The Company has now submitted all requested updates and enhancements, and a [...]