Schlumberger Ltd announced that its shares jumped Friday after the oilfield services provider said its second-quarter profit rose 13 percent and issued a bullish outlook. Analysts praised the results. The stock rose $4.72, or 4.9 percent, to $101.50 in late-morning trading.
The Houston-based company said high oil and natural gas prices led to heavier spending [...]

Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P, has recently recently released a report saying that it anticipated increase in distributable cash flow per unit guidance after 1.3x coverage of $2.00 to $2.20 per unit for the second half of 2008. The mid point of the guidance range represents a 14% increase compared to cash distributions paid in the [...]

Responding the Nabors’ offering worth $750M, Moody’s investors had it reviewed. It is also said that it placed its “A3″ senior unsecured rating for Nabors Industries Ltd. under review for a possible downgrade after the oil and gas driller announced a senior notes offering. The Bermuda-based company said Thursday one of its subsidiaries, Nabors Industries [...]

Gastar Exploration Ltd is going to publish a report on its Earning. it will release its second quarter 2008 results on Monday, August 11, after the market closes. In conjunction with the release, Gastar has scheduled a conference call for 9:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, August 12, that will be broadcast live over [...]

A mining offshore company, W&T Offshore Inc released the report on its second quarter 2008 financial and operations results at approximately 6:00 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday, August 5, 2008 to the press. In relation to the report, the W&T Offshore Inc has scheduled a conference call, which will also be broadcast live over the Internet, [...]

It is reported that as the trend continues its efforts to strengthen its operations and management team in such a hard way, freight railroad operator CSX Corp. said Tuesday its second-quarter earnings rose 19 percent on strong demand for coal, grain and metals. Besides, the company emphasizes its Full-year earnings prediction with a target of [...]

Allegheny Technologies Incorporated expects second quarter 2008 earnings to be in the range of $1.65 to $1.67 per share, including a $0.11 per share one-time net tax benefit. ATI had previously said that it expected second quarter earnings to be somewhat higher than the $1.40 per share achieved in the first quarter 2008.
“ATI is benefiting [...]

SunOpta Inc. (NasdaqGS:STKL - News) (Toronto:SOY.TO - News) today announced Opta Minerals Inc. has acquired 67% of the outstanding common shares of MCP Mg-Serbien SAS (“MCP”) of France. The transaction includes an option to acquire the remaining 33% minority interest on similar terms. For fiscal 2007 MCP recorded revenues of approximately US$6.3 million selling ground [...]

CGGVeritas provides its vessel utilization and fleet allocation updates for the second quarter of 2008 and announces the release date for the second quarter financial results.
Vessel utilization update for the second quarter 2008:
Going forward, CGGVeritas will publish on a quarterly basis a vessel utilization update. Two indicators will be disclosed:
- Vessel availability rate, a metric [...]

Cal Dive International, Inc. will conduct a conference call to discuss its second quarter results on July 31, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. Central Time. A press release summarizing these results is planned for distribution on July 30, 2008, after the market closes. The press release and conference call presentation will be available immediately after publishing [...]