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 [...]
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 [...]
Homeland Energy Group Ltd. is pleased to announce first coal production from its Kendal Mine in the Witbank area of South Africa, approximately 50km east of Johannesburg. To date, approximately 8,000 tonnes of coal has been mined from the first of three open pit areas. Processing of the coal through the Company’s Parnaby wash plant [...]
Uranium Energy Corp raised $15.3 million in its latest stock offering. Uranium Exploration and development in the Southwestern United States says it’s completed the sale of 6.4 million shares at $2.40 each. Share prices were hovering around $2.45 late Tuesday. In the past year the stock price has ranged from $1.80 to $4.82.
Uranium Energy says [...]
Most investors have focus on mining sectors like oil, coal and steel price. Copper which is so far hasn’t been able to attract investors’ attention recently started to steal some investors’ attention with its better price in the market. copper prices have quietly hung in and held the breakout in the weekly chart. The persistent [...]
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “China Potassium Sulfate Market Study Research Report” report to their offering.
This special report will estimate and analyse the China potassium sulfate market in 2007-2008. On the basis of data and information provided by State Statistics, State Customs, China Chemical Information Center and fertilizer-related associations, combined with [...]
Austral Pacific Energy Ltd. Austral announces the results of its Cheal-A7 well which reached a total depth of 1848m on July 10th, 2008. The well intercepted 7 meters of oil-bearing sands in the MM3 Formation as prognosed at approximately 1695m MD and the MM2 sand at 1730m.
The current Cheal wells program was designed to test [...]
