Chevron Corporation, the government of Indonesia, the local government of Aceh province, the National Education Department, the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency for Aceh and Nias, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) today announced the completion of a $16 million partnership to construct a polytechnic institute in Aceh province, Indonesia.
Chevron committed $6 million [...]

Rio Tinto Alcan marked the signing of a one-of-a-kind labour agreement with sixteen labour unions for the construction of the Kitimat Modernization Project at a ceremony in Vancouver. This agreement between the Kitimat Modernization Employer Association and the unions facilitates access to the qualified British Columbia building trades workforce, with joint commitments to local and [...]

Royale Energy Inc, has successfully fraced and tested a new producing horizon in its Moon Canyon #2 well in the Uintah Basin, Utah.
The new zone is a Dakota B sand that flowed dry natural gas at rates up to 2,000,000 cubic ft. per day from this interval. The well will be hooked up to the [...]

Mariner Energy, Inc. announced today the completion of the primary production system for its Bass Lite deepwater field. The completed system allows production of up to 130 million cubic feet of natural gas per day (MMcf/d) from the two wells at Bass Lite, up from previous early production levels of 70-75 MMcf/d. Current daily production [...]

U.S. Energy Corp. (Nasdaq:USE) (“USE” or the “Company”) today announced that it has completed the sale of an aggregate of 39,062,720 common shares of Sutter Gold Mining Inc. representing approximately 49.9% of the outstanding common shares of SGMI to RMB Resources Ltd. (“RMB”), as trustee for the Telluride Investment Trust, for an aggregate purchase price [...]

Chevron Corporation announced that it has submitted an environmental permit application to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality for the construction of a premium base oil facility at the company’s Pascagoula refinery. The facility is expected to produce approximately 25,000 barrels per day of premium base oil for use in manufacturing high-performance lubricants, such as [...]

Forsys Metals Corp. announce that the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Republic of Namibia, has granted the 25 year Mining Licence No.149 to Valencia Uranium (Pty) Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Forsys, allowing full scale development of the Valencia Uranium mining operation to proceed.
Duane Parnham, President and CEO of Forsys stated “The granting of [...]

Quest Minerals & Mining Corp., a Kentucky-based operator of energy and mineral related properties, announced today that in addition to supplying their mine with various transportation components, the Company plans to split their beltline so that it is powered by two head drives instead of just one.
Everett Hampton, President of Whitestar Mining, LLC, commented, “We [...]

MWH, a global provider of environmental engineering, strategic consulting and construction services, today announced the acquisition of Ground Water International S.A. (GWI), a hydrogeological consulting firm headquartered in Lima, Peru. GWI, one of the largest ground water consultancies in Peru, provides ground water and related environmental consulting services to mining clients across South America.
The transaction [...]

Chevron Canada Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, today announced on behalf of itself and its co-venturers the completion of legal agreements with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador to develop the Hebron heavy oil project offshore the East Coast of Canada.
The Hebron field is located 340 km offshore the province of Newfoundland [...]