Oilfield services provider Schlumberger Ltd. reporting a nearly 13 percent jump in profit driven by robust spending among customers searching for new sources of crude and natural gas. Unless the global economy goes into the tank, Schlumberger said it expects continued brisk spending on exploration and production as energy companies try to benefit from high [...]
Baker Hughes Inc. never stopped counting oil rigs in North Dakota, but in 1998 the company removed the state from its list of those with major drilling activity. The list is widely disseminated by the media.
Baker Hughes at the time cited a lack of drilling in North Dakota. The company does not have figures for [...]
Schlumberger Ltd announced that its shares jumped Friday after the oilfield services provider said its second-quarter profit rose 13 percent and issued a bullish outlook. Analysts praised the results. The stock rose $4.72, or 4.9 percent, to $101.50 in late-morning trading.
The Houston-based company said high oil and natural gas prices led to heavier spending [...]
Schlumberger Ltd told the press that a better-than-expected jump in quarterly profit on Friday and the world’s largest oilfield services company gave an upbeat outlook for energy companies’ spending on oil and gas exploration that helped push its shares up 4 percent. Schlumberger Chief Executive, Andrew Gould, Citing customer response to higher prices, he repeated [...]
OAO Severstal, one of the world’s leading metals and mining companies, announced that it has extended the expiration date for its tender offer to purchase all outstanding shares of Esmark Incorporated (Nasdaq: ESMK; “Esmark”), at an offer price of $19.25 per share, to 10:00 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time, on Monday, August 4, 2008.
The tender offer [...]
Responding the Nabors’ offering worth $750M, Moody’s investors had it reviewed. It is also said that it placed its “A3″ senior unsecured rating for Nabors Industries Ltd. under review for a possible downgrade after the oil and gas driller announced a senior notes offering. The Bermuda-based company said Thursday one of its subsidiaries, Nabors Industries [...]
Nabors Industries Ltd, an oil and gas driller company, published a report saying that one of its subsidiaries has priced a $750 million, 10-year offering. The offering of senior notes by Nabors Industries Inc, due 2018. It is also reported that it will have a 6.15 percent interest rate. The company said that The offering [...]
Empire Energy Corporation International announced that, along with its wholly owned subsidiary Great South Land Minerals Ltd. (GSLM), it has signed both a Note for AUD $5 million and a Memorandum of Understanding governing formation of a Joint Venture that could cancel the Note and supply up to AUD $40 million of additional funding.
The Note [...]
