Calvalley Petroleum Inc. announce that it has entered into its first Production Sharing Contract with the Ethiopian Government for the exploration, development and production of petroleum resources in the Gimbi and Metema blocks under a single contract covering a total area of over 46,470 square kilometers (11.5 million acres). Both blocks are located in [...]

Five years after oil was first produced from the Doba basin in southern Chad, the Chad Export Project continues to provide significant economic growth and development to the country and its residents. Stephane de Mahieu, general manager, Esso Exploration and Production Chad Inc., an ExxonMobil affiliate, discussed the project’s contributions to the nation at the [...]

Uruguay Mineral Exploration Inc reports on the results of exploration activities during the quarter ended 31 May 2008.
David Fowler, Chief Executive Officer commented: “We have made good progress in the fourth quarter towards achieving our exploration objectives; results overall have been encouraging.
“Near the mine, we have had better results in the deep drilling program at [...]

The anti-corruption group Transparency International rated more than 40 energy companies on how much they disclose about where they get their revenue, how much they pay host governments and how they operate.
The survey gave low grades to Exxon Mobil but praised Shell and Petrobras.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Brazil’s Petrobras, Norway’s StatoilHydro ASA and Petro-Canada are [...]

French nuclear energy group Areva on Friday launched an agreed takeover for UraMin, valuing the London-listed Canadian uranium miner at more than 2.5 billion dollars (1.9 billion euros).
“Areva and UraMin Inc. today entered into an agreement in respect of Areva’s friendly cash offer for 100 percent of the share capital of UraMin,” the pair said [...]

A state appeals court yesterday authorized a mining company to dig for coal beneath Dysart Woods, an old-growth forest in Belmont County.
The ruling by a panel of the Seventh District Court of Appeals permits the Ohio Valley Coal Co. to mine beneath the stand of 400-year-old trees.
The Buckeye Forest Council, Dysart Defenders and Chad Kister [...]

Magnum D’Or Resources, Inc. adds transparency for current and future shareholders by launching the company’s new website. The new site can be found at www.magnumresources.net
We have designed and launched our company’s website to more accurately inform the investing community about Magnum D’Or Resources and its proposed acquisition of Terra Elastomer Technologies S.L. (”Terra”). On our [...]

Baker Hughes Incorporated announced that Chad C. Deaton, chairman and chief executive officer of Baker Hughes Incorporated will present at the 2007 Credit Suisse Energy Summit in Vail, Colorado, on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 at 7:00 a.m. mountain time (9:00 am eastern time).
If you would like to listen to Mr. Deaton’s presentation during [...]

Canadian natural gas company EnCana Corp. said Friday its subsidiary EnCana (Chad) Holdings Ltd. closed a deal to sell its interests in Chad exploration assets to a unit of China National Petroleum Corp. for about $202.5 million.
The company said the effective date of the agreement is Oct. 1, 2006.
EnCana said it has now completed its [...]

Anvil Mining’s Kinsevere-Nambulwa copper-cobalt deposits, 27 km north of Lubumbashi, the provincial capital of the Katanga Province of the DRC are, like so much of that region, looking very promising. The Measured and Indicated mineral resource has been increased by over 400% to 865,300 t of contained copper. AMCK, a joint venture company formed by [...]