Global Crossing, a leading global IP solutions provider, today announced that Minera Chinalco Peru, a subsidiary of the Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco) — a multinational polymetallic mining company — has acquired an extensive portfolio of technology and telecommunications solutions for the development of its copper megaproject Toromocho.
Minera Chinalco Peru is developing one of the [...]

Particle Drilling Technologies, Inc. announced that it has completed the sale of its frac pump for $840,000. The frac pump was previously used as part of the Company’s particle injection system, but most recently was only utilized for test purposes at the Company’s flow-loop facility. The Company has recently leased a conventional tri-plex pump [...]

Freedom Financial Holdings, Inc. CEO Brian Kistler announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase all domestic and international rights of distribution and marketing of the heavy oil conversion technology. All rights for distribution and marketing will now be exclusively owned by Freedom Financial Holdings, Inc.
Kistler stated, “I am extremely excited [...]

Coalcorp Mining Inc. announced changes to its management structure, as well as additions to its board of directors.
Effective September 1, 2008, Mr. Luis Urdaneta has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the company. Mr. Urdaneta is a graduate of Zulia University (Venezuela) and Penn State University (USA) and has degrees in petroleum engineering [...]

CONSOL Energy Inc., the nation’s largest producer of bituminous coal, and Synthesis Energy Systems Inc., a global industrial gasification company, intend to develop through a joint venture their first U.S. coal gasification and liquefaction plant to be located in West Virginia. CONSOL (through its subsidiary Terra Firma Company) and SES have formed Northern Appalachia Fuel [...]

ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest integrated metals and mining company, today announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire the Concept Group (“Concept”).
Concept, located in southern West Virginia and adjacent to the recently acquired Mid Vol Coal Group in the Central Appalachian Coal Basin, produced 0.8 million tons of metallurgical coking coal in 2007 and [...]

Mainland Resources, Inc., a Nevada corporation has appointed Ernest G. Sorochan, P. Eng. as a Director of the Board effective July 17, 2008.
Ernest G. Sorochan is a Professional Engineer with a long history of project management, engineering oversight, economic evaluation and operational experience working for international oil and gas companies.
Mr. Sorochan has built a professional [...]

Natco Group Inc, An oil services company, said Wednesday is has received a $24.9 million contract to provide membrane technology for an oil field off the Libyan coast. As part of the deal awarded in May, the company will supply a Cynara membrane system to capture carbon dioxide for re-injection into Bouri, Libya’s largest offshore [...]

A U.S. based independent oil and gas company, Lucas Energy, Inc, Told the press about an update on Bonanza Oil and Gas, Inc.’s Apclark Project, in which Lucas is a minority shareholder, located in Borden County. Bonanza Oil and Gas, Inc., an independent oil and gas company, reported that its Everett #7 well, the second [...]

NACTO Group Inc told the press saying that the company has just been awarded a $24.9 million contract to provide membrane separation technology and equipment to capture CO2 for re-injection in Bouri, Libya’s largest offshore oil field. An oil company operating in the Mediterranean Sea, operates the Bouri production platforms, one of which will house [...]