Valcent Products Inc. Announces Debt Settlement and is Now Quoted Exclusively on the OTCQB

Valcent Products Inc. announced today that it has settled US $2,345,498 of debt through the issuance of 15,636,656 units at US $0.15 per unit. Each unit consists of one common share and one half warrant. One whole warrant is exercisable for period of two years into one common share at US $0.25. In addition, lock-up arrangements have been reached with... 

Samson Oil & Gas Presents in New York

Samson Oil & Gas Limited is presenting at two investor conferences in New York. Samson’s presentation at the Australian Resource Conference USA is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday, April 7th, (which is Friday, April 8th, 01:30 a.m. in Sydney). The presentation is being webcast and is available at http://live.arcusa-newyork.com.... 

Update: General Maritime Corporation Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock

General Maritime Corporation today announced that it has commenced a public offering of primary shares of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”). The offering is subject to market conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the offering may be completed, or as to the actual size or terms of the... 

Samson Oil & Gas Advises on Close of Sale of Gas Assets and Earl #1-13H Well

Samson Oil & Gas Limited advises that it has closed its previously announced sale of gas assets in the Jonah and Lookout Wash Fields in Green River Basin, Wyoming for $6.3 million to a group of private buyers, with an effective date of January 1, 2011. Samson’s cash balance following this transaction stands at US$73.3 million. Samson has also... 

Ashland Inc. Board Announces $400 Million Stock Repurchase Program, Intends to Increase Annual Dividend

Ashland Inc. announced today that its board of directors approved a $400 million stock repurchase program. Under the program, the company’s common shares will be purchased through a combination of a 10b5-1 automatic trading plan and discretionary purchases on the open market or in privately negotiated transactions. The amount and timing of any... 

Wall Street up on energy shares after Japan quake

Stocks rose on Friday, led by gains in energy shares after Japan’s biggest earthquake on record hurt the country’s oil refining capacity, but trade was choppy as investors tried to weigh the quake’s economic impact. The 8.9 magnitude quake that struck the northeast coast of Japan, the world’s third largest economy, triggered... 

Analysis: Stocks-oil relation looks as it did in 2008 recession

The trading pattern of the prices of stocks and crude oil looks worryingly like it did just before the last recession. Oil and equity prices rise and fall more or less in tandem when demand and economic growth expectations dictate prices. But the short-term relationship has been turned on its head in recent weeks with investors worried that political... 

W2 Modifies the SunFilter 1 Reactor to Operate 300% More Efficiently on New Algae Strain

W2 Energy, Inc., a clean energy company is pleased to announce that as of March 1, it has converted the SunFilter 1 algae reactor to use Euglena Gracilis, a more efficient strain of algae. The Euglena Gracilis strain of algae grows in fresh water rather than saltwater, and can sequester 40% of the carbon dioxide dissolved in the water. The previously... 

Dresser-Rand Announces Plan to Acquire Grupo Guascor S.L. (“GG”)

Dresser-Rand Group Inc., a global supplier of high-speed rotating equipment and service solutions, announced today that it has signed a Share Purchase Agreement (“SPA”) to acquire Grupo Guascor S.L. (“GG”) for an enterprise value of euro 500 million ($690 million) in a cash and stock transaction. The enterprise value includes... 

U.S. Leads Ranking of Top 25 Countries for Global Biofuels Production Capacity

The U.S. concluded 2010 as the top renewable ethanol producing country, according to the Global Biofuels Outlook to 2020, recently released from Hart Energy Consulting’s Global Biofuels Center (GBC). With more than 51 billion liters (13.47 billion gallons) of ethanol production capacity in operation, the U.S. is by far the leader, with South America’s...