The future home of EnviRes LLC doesn’t look like much of a launch pad for an energy revolution.
The 20-acre swath of East St. Louis jutting into Sauget is bounded by a Mississippi River levee, railroad tracks and the Diamond Cabaret topless nightclub.
But a Kentucky coal baron wants to bet big that the experimental coal gasification [...]
Two energy companies have sponsored a week-long program to educate 60 teachers about New Mexico’s oil and gas industry.
In exchange for their participation in the seminars and after submitting an approved lesson plan to the organizers using what they learned from the program, the teachers receive 500 dollar stipends.
The program is sponsored by two Artesia [...]
The Department of Energy (DoE) is looking at the conversion of retired oil-based power plants into natural gas fuel as a way of shoring up power supply and bring notches higher the country’s bid for energy independence.
Among the five-point reform package that Energy Secretary Raphael P.M. Lotilla has unveiled to be part of his department’s [...]
Flagship Indian energy firm Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) is in talks over exporting its share of natural gas from Russia’s Sakhalin-1 via Royal Dutch Shell’s nearby LNG terminal, an oil ministry official said on Friday.
The move to make liquefied natural gas (LNG) at Sakhalin-1, a multibillion dollar project on Russia’s Pacific Coast, runs [...]
A company connected to the Montgomery County longwall coal mining dispute faces a federal wrongful death lawsuit filed four years ago by labor-rights organizations that claim the international coal conglomerate is liable for murder in the South American nation of Colombia.
Drummond Co. Inc. of Birmingham, Ala. - an affiliate of IEC (Montgomery) LLC of [...]
Just as oil stocks were slow to reflect the near tripling of crude prices since 2003, coal stocks are just catching up to the commodity’s price gains.
St. Louis-based Peabody (symbol BTU) announced early this year that it had sold 30 million tons of future production through 2010 for 150 [...]
The Board of Directors of Canada Southern Petroleum Ltd. announced today that it has waived the application of the Limited Duration Shareholder Rights Plan adopted May 24th, 2006. The Rights Plan was established following the commencement of Petro-Canada’s unsolicited offer for Canada Southern.
“The original purpose of the Rights Plan was to allow the Board sufficient [...]
China has upgraded one hydropower dam in blackout-prone Guinea, the world’s top exporter of the aluminium ore bauxite, and plans to modernise another, state radio and diplomatic sources said on Wednesday.
China has ramped up investment and diplomatic activity in Africa as it seeks new supplies of energy and raw materials to fuel its fast-growing economy.
State [...]
aterpillar Inc., the world’s largest maker of earthmoving equipment, said second-quarter profit rose 38 percent as demand for mining trucks and power generators fueled sales.
Net income increased to $1.05 billion, or $1.52 a share, from $760 million, or $1.08, a year earlier. Sales gained 13 percent to $10.6 billion, the Peoria, Illinois-based company said today [...]
Gold headed for its first weekly decline in five as some investors bet a rally was exaggerated given the diminishing prospects for an escalation of violence in the Middle East.
“The conflict has been regionally contained,” said Wolfgang Wrzesniok, head of marketing and sales at Heraeus Metallhandels GmbH in Hanau, Germany, a gold trader and refiner. [...]
