SBM Offshore N.V. is pleased to announce the following contract awards:
1. BP Angola FPSO
A call off frame contract has been obtained from BP Angola in support of a development programme offshore Angola. The initial contract call off has been signed for early engineering and fabrication works to support enhanced local fabrication capability in the region.
Subject [...]
Abraxas Petroleum Corporation announced that it has received approval on two of its drilling permits in Brooks Draw, Wyoming.
Abraxas anticipates receiving approval on three additional permits during the third quarter of 2008. A rig has been scheduled for mid-August and initial plans are to drill one well at a time with evaluation periods in-between. [...]
MAX Resource Corp. is pleased to announce that drilling has begun at its Ravin molybdenum/tungsten property in Lander County, Nevada. The Ravin property is comprised of 162 claims located 20 miles north of the town of Austin in Central Nevada and approximately 50 miles west of General Moly, Inc.’s (AMEX & TSX: GMO) Mount Hope [...]
Goodrich Petroleum Corporation announced the pricing of its previously announced offering of 3,000,000 shares of its common stock pursuant to a registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
All of the shares offered will be sold at a price to the public of $64.00 per share. Net proceeds from the offering, estimated at $183.9 [...]
Oceaneering International, Inc. announced it has recently been awarded a contract by Shell for the fabrication and installation of subsea hardware on Shell’s ultra-deepwater Perdido Regional Development project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM).
Engineering and fabrication of the hardware to be provided under the contract has commenced. This hardware includes 29 flowline and well [...]
Best Energy Services, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BEYS), a U.S. energy production equipment and services provider, today announced its financial results for the first fiscal quarter, ended April 30, 2008, including the results for subsidiaries Bob Beeman Drilling Company and Best Well Service, Inc., which were both acquired on February 14, 2008, and comparable results [...]
Cabo Drilling Corp., Ontario Division, has signed a drilling contract with International Millennium Mining Corp. (IMMC) for an initial 2,500 meters of diamond drilling near the Waldman mine on IMMC’s Cobalt Area Property in Ontario. The purpose of the program is to test several strong targets identified by a MMI (mobile metal ion) sampling program [...]
Golden Chalice Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that drilling has commenced on the Company’s Radio Hill Property, which is located approximately 76 kilometres southwest of Timmins, Ontario. The Radio Hill Property has potential to host gold, nickel, copper, zinc or iron ore deposits.
A historical non-compliant 43-101 resource was calculated for the iron mineralization on [...]
A new survey from Public Agenda and the publication Foreign Affairs finds U.S. dependence on foreign oil a top national security concern for Americans.
The sixth edition of the Confidence in Foreign Policy Index, which tracks attitudes on over 110 items related to foreign policy, shows about 60 percent of Americans think reducing energy dependence would [...]
Competition in the carbon and graphite products market is intense, particularly with regard to price, quality and service. Producers of graphite have regained their pricing power on account of global consolidation by numerous graphite electrode producers. Carbon products find application in areas including steel and aluminum production, glass making, aerospace industry, nuclear power, and electronics [...]
