Praxair, Inc. announced that North West Upgrading Inc. (NWU), has selected Praxair Canada Inc., the largest industrial gas supplier in Canada, to provide the industrial gases needed for its heavy oil Upgrader in Sturgeon County, Alberta, Canada. North West’s process eliminates production of coke, uses gasification to make hydrogen from the heaviest components of [...]

Infinito Gold Ltd. announce that it has signed an engagement letter under which it has given BNP Paribas an exclusive mandate to act as lead arranger of a $US 66 million debt financing facility to complete the construction and start-up of Infinito Gold’s 100% owned Crucitas Gold Mine Project located in north central Costa Rica. [...]

Rio Tinto and General Electric announced that they are working together on two key strategic technology projects, Rio Tinto’s ‘Mine of the Future™’ and GE’s ‘Ecomagination’”, to develop the most energy efficient and ecologically friendly solutions to support the future of mining.
Combining GE’s expertise in environmental technologies with Rio Tinto’s deep mining knowledge creates a [...]

Universal Energy Corp., a growth oriented U.S. oil and gas exploration and production company, announced today that a world renowned processing and development services provider has been selected to reprocess the proprietary seismic data at the Company’s Lone Oak prospect. The processing techniques will take four to six weeks to complete and will provide the [...]

Arctic Oil & Gas Corp. (351 million shares issued), a petroleum exploration company, is pleased to announce that the Company and partners have proposed $2.50 gasoline, 30% discounted natural gas and hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties to Santa Barbara County from a proposed, (40% AOAG equity) Santa Barbara OCS-State petroleum lease development project, [...]

Nexant announced today that three gas industry experts—Mike Fulwood, Brian Little, and John Conway—have joined the company’s global gas practice. The three are former principals and founders of Energy Markets Partners LLP, a U.K.-based energy consultancy specializing in natural gas markets. Additionally, Nexant has also acquired a unique proprietary natural gas model that was developed [...]

Approach Resources Inc. reported that an estimated 17.3 million cubic feet equivalent per day of natural gas, net to the Company, was shut in from the Company’s Ozona Northeast field as of September 11, 2008. The shut-in was caused when Chevron Phillips Chemical Company’s natural gas liquids and fractionation facility at the Sweeny complex, located [...]

DTN, a leading business information services company focused on agricultural, energy and weather business markets, today announced that Valero Energy Corporation, will use industry-leading DTN TABS(TM) credit and product allocation controls for its rack marketer customers.
Valero’s use of DTN TABS will enable rack marketers to gain complete control over what they are selling and the [...]

Erdene Resource Development Corp. announced it was notified that Xstrata Coal Canada has increased its ownership in the company to greater than 5% through the purchase of common shares in the open market.
As a result, Xstrata Coal retains certain rights per its Alliance Agreement with Erdene, including a first option to enter into a joint [...]

Mesa Uranium Corp. announce that it has filed potash exploration permit applications with the Bureau of Land Management. The project has excellent potential for potash from both solution mining and naturally-occurring potash brines. The 25,500 acre area (40 square miles), the White Cloud potash project, is located 40 miles north of our Lisbon Valley uranium [...]