Houston Wire & Cable Company Reports Results for the Fourth Quarter and Year Ended December 31, 2010

Houston Wire & Cable Company announced operating results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2010. Selected highlights for the quarter: * Record sales of $93.5 million * Gross margin up 110 basis points over the fourth quarter of 2009 * Revenues increased 47.3% over the fourth quarter of 2009 * Net income up... 

U.S. issues second post-spill drill permit in Gulf

The government has given BHP Billiton the second new permit to drill in the Gulf of Mexico since the Macondo oil spill, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said Saturday. A BHP spokesman confirmed that the new permit has been issued for resumption of drilling of a production well at Shenzi. BOEMRE issued the first new permit since the lifting of a... 

Moody’s Confirms Nexen’s Investment Grade Credit Rating

Earlier today, Moody’s Investors Service announced the completion of their credit review and confirmed Nexen’s Baa3 rating with a negative outlook. We expect to retain this rating and remove the negative outlook by reducing our debt to levels commensurate with the rating by late this year or early 2012, and retaining sufficient cash to fund... 

Callon Petroleum Company Announces Fourth Quarter, Full Year 2010 Reporting Date and Conference Call

Callon Petroleum Company today announced its fourth quarter and full year 2010 results of operations will be released on Monday afternoon, March 14, 2011. A conference call discussing the results and current activity is scheduled for 10 a.m. Central Daylight Time Tuesday, March 15, 2011. The conference call may be accessed live over the internet through... 

BP workers could have prevented rig accident: commission

BP had workers on the doomed Deepwater Horizon rig who could have prevented the missteps that led to the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but they were not consulted, the White House oil spill commission said on Thursday. In an expanded report on the causes of the BP drilling disaster that killed 11 workers and ravaged the U.S. Gulf coast last summer,... 

Hercules Offshore, Inc. Signs Purchase Agreement to Acquire Assets of Seahawk Drilling

Hercules Offshore, Inc. announced today that it has entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with Seahawk Drilling, Inc. (Nasdaq:HAWK – News) and its affiliates (collectively “Seahawk”) to purchase 20 jackup rigs and related assets from Seahawk for approximately 22.3 million shares of Hercules Offshore common stock and cash consideration... 

Chevron profit climbs, but reserves data weigh

Chevron Corp’s 72 percent rise in quarterly profit easily beat Wall Street forecasts, but anemic growth in its oil reserves disappointed investors and its shares fell 1.5 percent. Like smaller rivals ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum Corp, earnings at the second-largest U.S. oil company were lifted by the strength of oil prices. But Chevron... 

Global Oil and Gas Upstream M&A 2010 Review

Record $211 billion in deals announced in 2010; Study sees another strong year in 2011 with more than $90 billion of properties on the market. PLS Inc., with international partner Derrick Petroleum Services and further analysis from Rystad Energy, reports global upstream oil and gas M&A activity for 2010 reached a record $211 billion. That volume... 

Helix Announces Departure of COO

Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. announced today that Bart Heijermans has resigned as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer effective January 21, 2011. Mr. Heijermans’ duties will be assumed by Owen Kratz and other members of senior management. Owen Kratz, Helix’s President and Chief Executive Officer, stated “Since... 

Former BP CEO in talks over Glencore role: report

Tony Hayward, the former head of BP who was reviled in the United States for his handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, is in talks to join the board of commodities group Glencore, the Sunday Times reported. Hayward stepped down from the BP role in September after provoking outrage in the United States with a series of gaffes following the country’s...