A number of independent and major exploration and production companies will attend a forum focusing on development of Sub-Saharan Africa’s prodigious natural gas reserves, September 3 & 4 in Houston.
Among the organizations that will be represented at the meeting are: Artumas Group, Chevron, Citigroup, ConocoPhillips, Marathon Oil Corporation, PetroSA, Repsol YPF, Sasol, Fortesa, Hyperdynamics, MedEnergy, [...]

Wall Street tumbled Tuesday after oil prices spiked to a new record above $129 a barrel and a government report raised investors’ concerns about the impact of inflation on consumer spending. The Dow Jones industrials fell nearly 200 points.
Crude jumped after OPEC’s president was quoted as saying his organization won’t raise its output before its [...]

Worldwide industrial services company Harsco Corporation announced it has successfully completed a bond offering of 5.75%, 10-year senior notes totaling $450 million. The notes were rated A3 by Moody’s and A- by both Standard & Poor’s and Fitch. The managing underwriters of the offering were J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., and Greenwich [...]

Oil prices hit a record high $117 a barrel Friday as jitters over Nigerian oil supplies outweighed a rally in the dollar and fears of an economic slowdown in giant energy consumer China.
U.S. light crude settled up $1.83 at $116.96 a barrel, before hitting a record $117. London Brent crude gained $1.49 to $113.92.
Oil prices [...]

Shares in UK natural gas producer BG Group Plc jumped nearly 6 percent as investors started betting on the potential size of the Carioca oil discovery in Brazil after the chief of the country’s petroleum agency revealed the site could be holding around 33 billion barrels of oil equivalent, making it one of the world’s [...]

Citigroup Inc. agreed to pay $1.66 billion to creditors of Enron Corp. who lost money when the energy trader collapsed in 2001.
Citigroup was the last remaining defendant in what was known as the “Mega Claims” lawsuit, filed in 2003 against 11 banks and brokerages. The filer, Enron Creditors Recovery Corp., alleged that with the help [...]

Vale , the world’s largest iron ore miner, said on Tuesday that talks aimed at buying Swiss rival Xstrata had failed and that Vale would look at other potential takeover targets.
“Given that an agreement was not reached, discussions between the parties have been discontinued,” Vale said in a statement to the local market regulator. Vale [...]

Asia faces the threat of higher inflation, slower growth and tougher times for exporters after oil prices hit new highs and the dollar plunged last week.
Farmers, miners and oil companies could benefit from high commodity prices. But most of Asia is dependent on imported energy and raw materials, and even some oil-exporting countries such as [...]

Oil prices climbed back above 100 dollars on Wednesday as OPEC ministers began a vital meeting at which they were widely expected to hold current output levels despite calls from the West for a hike, traders said.
New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in April, was up one dollare to 100.52 dollars per [...]

BRAZIL’S Companhia Vale do Rio Doce has signalled its confidence in the nickel market by granting final board approval for the $US3.2 billion Goro laterite project in New Caledonia, despite years of delays, cost blowouts and disputes with locals.
Goro has been one of the most-watched nickel developments in the world amid speculation CVRD could cancel [...]