ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest integrated metals and mining company, today announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire the Concept Group (“Concept”).
Concept, located in southern West Virginia and adjacent to the recently acquired Mid Vol Coal Group in the Central Appalachian Coal Basin, produced 0.8 million tons of metallurgical coking coal in 2007 and [...]

Mainland Resources, Inc., a Nevada corporation has appointed Ernest G. Sorochan, P. Eng. as a Director of the Board effective July 17, 2008.
Ernest G. Sorochan is a Professional Engineer with a long history of project management, engineering oversight, economic evaluation and operational experience working for international oil and gas companies.
Mr. Sorochan has built a professional [...]

An emerging U.S oil and gas exploration and production company, Universal Energy Corp, published an update on drilling operations at its lone oak prospect in Galveston Bay, Texas. As of this morning, drilling at Lone Oak has reached a measured depth of 11,975 feet. Drilling is scheduled to be complete later this week to the [...]

ArcelorMittal announces is has acquired the outstanding 60% of the shares in Rolanfer Recyclage S.A. (“Rolanfer”) which now gives it 100% control over the company.
Rolanfer is based in Yutz (France) near Thionville on the border with Luxembourg and operates a shredder at the port of Illange. Rolanfer specialises in the processing and recycling of scrap [...]

Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), an international private equity firm focused on investing across the African continent, today announced a U.S. $30 million initial investment in Salt Investment S.A. (SI). The company is a new Djibouti-based salt production and export company that will harvest, wash and export salt extracted from Lake Assal, the largest undeveloped salt [...]

EnerCom, Inc., announced today the lineup and schedule for The Oil & Gas Conference®, http://www.theoilandgasconference.com. In its 13th year, the Conference, held in Denver Aug. 10-14, is the oldest and largest energy investment conference hosted in Denver, showcasing more than 70 companies with a combined enterprise value of more than $500 billion. This premier forum [...]

The Board of Directors of Uranium International Corp. has appointed Marek J. Kreczmer as the President/Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Uranium International effective as of July 9, 2008.
Mr. Kreczmer, M.Sc., P.Eng., has been a geologist and mining executive for more than 30 years. He has worked for major [...]

Beacon Energy Corp., an emerging producer and investor in the developing biodiesel sector, has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Beacon Energy Holdings, Inc., a public reporting company. As a result of the transaction, all stockholders of Beacon Energy Corp. exchanged their interests for stock of the public company.
Source: Beacon Energy Corp.
Beacon Energy Corp. was formerly [...]

Marathon Oil Corporation announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Centrica plc, the parent company of British Gas, under which Centrica will purchase Marathon’s non-operated interests in the Heimdal infrastructure, related producing fields and associated undeveloped acreage offshore Norway. The transaction, which has a total value of $416 million and an [...]

Oil supplies will remain tight despite record prices that have trimmed demand, according to the International Energy Agency.
Downsizing its estimate of how much oil will reach the market, the IEA predicted supply will exceed projected demand only by 2 million barrels a day.
The IEA is the energy watchdog for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and [...]