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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.
Conocophillips Agreed To Pay $9.6 Billion For A Half Stake In Natural Gas Project
ConocoPhillips is an experienced developer and operator of LNG projects around the world and has strong ties to major LNG consumers in Asia.
ConocoPhillips, which boasts a market capitalisation of 125 billion US dollars, will make a 1.5-billion-dollar payment into the new joint venture at the end of 2010 and further payments as the project comes [...]
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 [...]
PNG’s Oil Search 2006 profit growth slows
Australian listed Papua New Guinea (PNG) oil and gas producer Oil Search Ltd. reported a slowdown in net profit growth in 2006 on lower output, but forecast a slight rise in production in 2007.
The company, a partner in the Exxon Mobil-operated Papua New Guinea (PNG) gas project, said core net profit before one-offs rose 4 [...]
