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Questar Corp has announced its 269th consecutive dividend. The US-based natural gas producer will pay shareholders 16.25 cents per share on 12th March 2012. Questar Corp originated in 1922 with…
February 11, 2012Read More
PA Resources has sold its interests in the Ezzaouia and El Bibane oil fields in Tunisia for a sum of around $4 million. The interests have been sold to Canadian…
January 3, 2012Read More
ExxonMobil Iraq Limited, South Oil Company of Iraq, Shell West Qurna B.V. and Oil Exploration Company of Iraq, have announced that the West Qurna Oil Field in Iraq is now…
March 28, 2011Read More
In what may become a stroke of corporate brilliance, or a gamble, BHP Billiton today announced it will purchaseChesapeake Energy Corps Arkansas shale gas assets for $4.75 billion in cash.…
February 22, 2011Read More
Woodside Petroluem (WPL), one of the worlds largest oil and gas firms, based in Western Australia, failed to meet broker forecasts with a first half profit announcement. Woodside posted a…
February 21, 2011Read More
On the back of commodity price rises, BHP Billiton, the worlds largest mining company, today announced a massive 72% rise in profit for the first half of the financial year.…
February 16, 2011Read More
US Market Close: 10th February 2011 Global equity markets finished in mixed territory today after Egypt president Hosni Mubarak defied his detractors and in a much anticipated speech, vowed not…
February 11, 2011Read More
Crude Oil futures today gained value, 62 cents to $87.56 for the March contract in New York, the first time in five days, on the back of stockpiles declining in…
February 9, 2011Read More
Diamond Offshore Drilling Limited, a subsidiary of Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (NYSE:DO), announced on 2nd February 2011 that it has placed an order with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd for…
February 3, 2011Read More
Atlas Copco Mafi-Trench has signed an agreement to acquire a cryogenic pump business from J.C. Carter. J.C. Carter is a leading producer of cryogenic submerged motor pumps, which have many…
January 24, 2011Read More