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Chevron To Build Biggest Natural Gas Project in Australia
Chevron Corp. on Monday committed to building Australia’s biggest natural resource project, a $37 billion facility that will pump natural gas from the ocean floor, cool it into a liquid and ship it to the hungry economies of East Asia.
Mining and Energy Companies Investment Delay by Global Financial Crisis
The deepening of the global financial crisis and the sharp drop in energy prices have forced companies to scale back spending and delay projects, with expensive ventures in the Canadian oil sands hardest hit.
Pressure on oil companies grows to end gas flaring in Nigeria
For three minutes, on the day last May when Royal Dutch Shell released its first quarter earnings figures, a flame shot high into the air in front of the company’s head office in The Hague, scorching a human chain of about 40 protesters that circled it, a few meters away, to block police efforts to [...]
Uranium Funds Points to Near-Term U3O8 Price Decline
Nuclear Market Review [NMR] editor Treva Klingbiel reported in this week’s issue, “Two sellers that were evaluating bids in response to their auctions have concluded their evaluations and have decided not to sell at this time.” She added, “Both sellers preferred to make delivery in June while most bidders were seeking delivery for several months [...]
BP to lose 20 bn dlr oil field amid Russian crackdown
BP’s Russian venture TNK-BP is likely to lose its licence for the $20-illion Kovykta gas field although Moscow could prefer to postpone the tough action until after the G8 Summit and its landmark economic forum. A natural resources ministry commission should annul BP’s permit for the $18 billion Kovykta field at its meeting on [...]
Capricorn Energy New Success Story?
Scottish oil junior Cairn Energy [LSE:CNE], holding vast producing oil acreage in South-East Asia (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal), has again made headlines lately. Based on its statements that it plans to return $944 million to shareholders after floating its Indian business, investors have renewed their interest.
Cairn has decided to split up its former company [...]
Iran and Russia Learn to Dance the Natural Gas Contango
(Contango-a trading term whereby the future price of a commodity is quoted higher than the price for current delivery)
What’s worse than one bully? A mafioso of them. And if Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has his way, the world’s largest natural gas producers might try to form such a mafia to manipulate markets and [...]
Mining To Slow Slowly Over Next Two Years
Here’s some good news for the big end of the market where resources are still booming. Leading economic forecaster and industry analyst BIS Shrapnel sees the current boom lasting through until the end of 2008.
It said yesterday that with work in the pipeline and more projects still to start, “investment is forecast to rise another [...]
Independent Oil and Natural Gas Investment Research Report Published by Altenews
Today the alternative energy news website Altenews.com published a report called “A Research Report on Investment in Independent Oil and Natural Gas Exploration: Black Gold is Back.” The report, written by Altenews President Russell Hasan, is available to the public free of charge on the Web site http://www.altenews.com. The report is unique among oil [...]
