EnerJex Resources, Inc. announce financial results from its first quarter ended June 30, fiscal 2009. The Company, which first began acquiring oil leases in April 2007, has delivered its first positive income from operations of $24,710. For the three months ended June 30, 2008, oil and natural gas revenues were $1.69 million.
Oil sales volumes on [...]

Franklin Mining, Inc. Chairman and President, William A. Petty, is pleased to announce that a letter of agreement has been signed with Synfuels International, Inc., Dallas, TX. Mr. Petty and Mr. Ben R. Weber, Jr, CEO and Chairman of Synfuels, yesterday reached an agreement addressing the environment and steps to be taken prior to finalizing [...]

Aztec Oil & Gas, Inc. previously announced that the Company had completed the drilling of two new wells for its Aztec 2007A Limited Partnership. The wells, Williams #1 and #2, were drilled in Tyler County, West Virginia to a depth of approximately 5,000 feet each. Logs on both wells indicated substantial reserves. Today, Aztec is [...]

Century Aluminum Company and Noranda Aluminum Holding Corporation announced today that Larry Holley has been named president and general manager of Gramercy Alumina, LLC and St. Ann Bauxite Limited, effective May 8, 2008.
“We are delighted with Larry’s appointment,” said Century’s chief operating officer Wayne R. Hale. “His technical background, mining experience and energy expertise make [...]

Phoenix Matachewan Mines Inc. announced that a drilling program, conducted on its Swanson Project, northwestern Quebec, has returned numerous promising results in a number of shallow drill holes collared to intercept gold mineralization in the Swanson deposit. The project is being conducted by Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. (”Agnico”) under the terms of an option agreement [...]

Asserting the state improperly turned a contract dispute into a fraud action, Exxon Mobil Corporation urged the Alabama Supreme Court to overturn a $3.5 billion punitive damages award. The award resulted from a lawsuit regarding payment of Mobile Bay Project royalties to the state.
“This entire case stems from a contract dispute over a poorly drafted [...]

Franklin County, long a main cog in the Illinois coal market, has been without a working mine for nearly a decade. But it appears that bleak picture is about to change. James Morris, vice president with Williamson Energy Development, spoke to the Franklin County Board Monday night and provided details about a proposed coal mine [...]

Franklin Mining, Inc. confirms that on Monday, February 5, 2007, Perrin, Holden, and Davenport Capital, a NASD member broker/dealer, filed SEC’s Form 15c2-11 on behalf of Franklin Mining, Inc. requesting their ability to act as market maker for Franklin’s common stock.
In releasing today’s announcement, Jaime Melgarejo Jr., CEO, said that “Franklin will continue working with [...]

Xcel Energy wants to boost capacity and reduce emissions at its coal-fired Sherco power plant in Becker, Minn., with a $900 million expansion. The proposal would add 140 megawatts of electricity to Sherco’s current 2,400-megawatt capacity and use state-of-the-art technology to reduce emissions of mercury, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and soot, Xcel officials said Thursday. [...]

From major economic development announcements and projects in terms of two ethanol plants to the nearly completed expansion of the Wells County Library and state accolades to Norwell students, Wells County experienced good times in 2006.
From the untimely and tragic deaths of several Wells County residents to the closing of an Ossian manufacturing plant that [...]