Schlumberger Ltd told the press that a better-than-expected jump in quarterly profit on Friday and the world’s largest oilfield services company gave an upbeat outlook for energy companies’ spending on oil and gas exploration that helped push its shares up 4 percent. Schlumberger Chief Executive, Andrew Gould, Citing customer response to higher prices, he repeated [...]
GulfMark Offshore, Inc. today announced it has closed on the previously announced acquisition of Rigdon Marine. The combined company will initially operate 90 vessels with an additional 16 vessels under construction for delivery through 2010. Geographically diversified, the GulfMark fleet will operate 24 vessels in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and bring the total Americas [...]
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 [...]
Pacific Coast Nickel Corp. (formerly Fargo Capital Corp.) (FGO.P) announces that it has granted options to purchase 1,925,000 common shares to directors, officers, and consultants of the Company at a price of $0.60 per share for a period of five years, subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
About Pacific Coast Nickel Corp.
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Nearly a half-century after it began, the voracious mine fire that doomed this coal town in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania continues to burn hundreds of feet underground, uncontrolled and uncontrollable.
The fire began in 1962 at the town dump and ignited an exposed coal vein, eventually forcing an exodus that emptied Centralia of more than [...]
COSHOCTON - Like every livestock farmer these days, Larry Stahl is worried about how much it’s going to cost to feed his herd of dairy cows in the near future.
Stahl, who works on his family’s Adams Township farm, Rocky Point Farms, has planted about 150 acres of corn this year to help feed his 75-head [...]
Alcoa Inc. announced that it has reviewed Alcan’s continuity agreement with the Government of Quebec which identifies the requirements that Alcoa must meet regarding Alcan’s future operations in the Province in order to maintain certain of Alcan’s hydroelectric and water rights. In a letter to Alcan’s Board of Directors, Alcoa outlined the many ways in [...]
Their thick, ancient forests shelter leopards, elephants and even the odd tiger, their slopes are home to an isolated tribe, but the “curse” of eastern India’s Niyamgiri hills lies beneath the soil.
Massive deposits of bauxite have brought Britain’s Vedanta Resources to this remote corner of the state of Orissa, where they have already built [...]
Unions in Guinea resumed a general strike on Monday in protest against President Lansana Conte’s rule and disrupted mining operations in the world’s top bauxite exporter, witnesses and officials said.
For the second time in a month, markets, shops, schools, banks and administration offices were closed in the capital Conakry and other towns around the West [...]
For the first time in the City of Fort Worth, owners of a shopping center plan to drill for natural gas in the business parking lot.
The drilling will take place in the parking lot of La Gran Plaza, in front of the theatre. The location is roughly 350-feet from I-35 South at the Seminary exit.
Mall [...]
