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Tri-Valley To Advance Alaska Gold Mine Exploration and Industria Mineral Properties


Tri-Valley Corporation announced that its minerals subsidiary, Select Resources Corporation, has entered into an official stage of information exchange with industry parties to advance its Alaska gold and industrial mineral properties.

Oil and Gas Exploration Project Fall in Prices


From the plains of North Dakota to the deep waters of Brazil, dozens of major oil and gas projects have been suspended or canceled in recent weeks as companies scramble to adjust to the collapse in energy markets.

Improvement Of Coal Mine Exploration And Safety Of World Climate


the increasing of request of produce of coal in some states results exploration company of coal and company produce of coal increases activity to fulfill request and coal supply.
the increasing of request of coal is applied to fulfill requirement of public electric energy. In some states, improvement of exploration and supply of coal makes state [...]

North Dakota’s mineral resource leader gives estimate of oil in Bakken formation


North Dakota’s own estimate of how much oil can be gotten economically, using current technology, from the Bakken formation in the Williston Basin is slightly above or below 2.1 billion barrels, Lynn Helms reported this morning at a conference here.
Helms, director of the state’s department of mineral resources, said that estimate is based on a [...]

Oil prices put business travelers over a barrel


Once upon a time air travel was a luxury reserved for the rich and famous. With sustained oil prices over $100 per barrel, we may be headed that way again, and the impact on business travel could be enormous, as cash-strapped airlines raise prices, cut capacity and try to squeeze alternative revenue sources out of [...]

Abler Minded: $10 a gallon gasoline


In Sunday’s Brainerd Dispatch, in an Open Forum letter, the secretary of the Crow Wing County DFL wrote about the lack of a coherent, national energy policy – a situation that I, too, find unsatisfactory.
In the letter, the author stated, “We need to hear what to do when gas hits $10 a gallon.”
The assumption being [...]

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 [...]

Indian Energy Company in the list top performing energy firms


As many as seven Indian companies figure in the list of the world’s 250 top performing energy firms, with Reliance Industries, ONGC and NTPC grabbing the top Asian ranks.
In the annual rankings of Platts Top 250 Global Energy, ONGC and Reliance Industries have made into the top 50 with rankings of 23 and 39 respectively. [...]

Coal no longer a dirty word for Pike River float


Pike River Coal Company’s moment of truth arrives on Tuesday when its long-delayed attempt to raise $65 million-plus through an initial public offering for what will be the country’s only listed coal mine closes.
The signs look good.
There are indications Pike River has managed to get acceptances for not only the initial $65m, but for [...]