Endeavour International Corporation announced that the company and its partners have submitted for governmental approval a Field Development Plan (FDP) for the Columbus discovery in the Central North Sea in the United Kingdom.
The FDP consists of a multi-phased subsea tie-back to link Columbus production to a central processing facility that is part of the BP-operated [...]

Serica Energy plc as operator of UK Block 23/16f has submitted the Field Development Programme (”FDP”) for the Columbus field in the UK Central North Sea to the UK government.
In December 2006 Serica announced the discovery of the Columbus gas-condensate field with well 23/16f-11. The well was tested at a rate of 17.5 million cubic [...]

Capital City Energy Group Inc. has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Avanti Energy Partners LLC, will complete plans for a five-well natural gas drilling program in the fourth quarter and commence drilling in the first quarter of 2009.
The drilling package will target the Clinton Sandstone in the Appalachian Basin. The Clinton Sandstone is less [...]

Endeavour International Corporation announced a discovery at the site of its Noatun C prospect located in PL107 in the Norwegian North Sea. The well encountered a gas condensate column in the targeted Middle to Lower Jurassic sandstone. The drilling of a sidetrack will begin immediately to locate the gas water contact and further determine the [...]

Serica Energy plc provides further information regarding Serica’s Petroleum Exploration Licence PEL 01/06 covering three blocks in the southern Slyne Basin off the west coast of Ireland.
This information in respect of the Licence and the Bandon and Boyne prospects is supplemental to that provided in Serica’s news release of 2 September 2008 and is provided [...]

Capital City Energy Group, Inc. announced that it has applied for listing of its shares of common stock on the American Stock Exchange LLC (AMEX). Although no assurances can be given that the Company’s common stock will be accepted for listing, the Company believes that it meets the quantitative standards for original listing under the [...]

Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc. today announced that it has been named a recipient of a prestigious R&D 100 Awards for 2008, which recognize the 100 most significant proven technological advances of the year, according to R&D Magazine.
These awards have been called the “Oscars of Invention.” For more than 45 years, the R&D Awards have provided [...]

OAO Severstal, one of the world’s leading metals and mining companies, today announced that it has reached a binding agreement to purchase WCI Steel, a market leader in the production of value-added steel products based in Warren, Ohio.
According to the terms of the agreement, Severstal will acquire all outstanding equity of WCI for a total [...]

Then U.S. Energy Department awarded $61.1 million to a multistate environmental partnership to research new ways to capture and store carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
The Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership project, working with Columbus, Ohio-based Battelle Memorial Laboratories, will test ways to store the gases in underground geological formations, and in land occupied by [...]

Environmental groups warn of new pollution if state permits coal-burning plant in Early County
To make their point, they stood along River Street with a large inflatable coal power plant with smokestacks bearing labels such as “acid rain” and “mercury poisoning.”
A few tourists gathered nearby as representatives from three Georgia-based environmental groups called on Gov. Sonny [...]