Exterran Holdings, Inc. today announced that J. Michael Anderson, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, is scheduled to present at the Credit Suisse Energy Summit in Vail, Colorado on Thursday, February 10, 2011 at approximately 1:30 p.m. Mountain Time. If you would like to listen to the presentation during the conference, please enter this [...]
VeraSun Energy Corporation, one of the nation’s largest ethanol producers, announced today that it had received commitments for up to $215 million in debtor in possession (DIP) financing from certain holders of VeraSun’s 9 7/8% senior secured notes due 2012 and groups of lenders led by AgStar Financial Services. At today’s “first day” hearing, the [...]
A Russian minister said BP’s experience in cleaning up the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill was one of the reasons Russia chose the British oil firm to help develop its fragile Arctic shelf oil fields.
BP and Russia’s state-controlled Rosneft on Friday agreed to a multi-billion-dollar share swap, under which they will jointly explore for [...]
The Volvo Group is the coordinator for the European project BioDME, which is starting its work today. BioDME is a unique cooperative project involving the automotive industry as well as fuel producers and distributors regarding the fuel DME. The project will demonstrate the entire technology chain, from biomass to trucks powered by DME fuel, including [...]
Quanta Services, Inc. announces that effective today James F. O’Neil, age 50, will serve as president and chief operating officer of the company. In this new position, O’Neil will oversee Quanta’s operations and strategic initiatives across the electric power, natural gas, renewable energy, telecommunications, broadband cable and wireless industries.
O’Neil, who most recently served as a [...]
Huaneng Power International, Inc. announced today the adjustments of tariffs of its power plants.
Pursuant to a notice recently issued by the National Development and Reform Commission (the “NDRC”), the NDRC decided to adjust the on-grid tariffs of the power plants in order to ease the operation difficulties of the enterprises operating coal-fired power plant and [...]
Alcoa announced it will curtail the remaining production at its Rockdale, Texas aluminum smelter – comprising approximately 150,000 metric tons of production a year (mtpy) – beginning immediately as a result of uncompetitive power supply to that smelter and overall market conditions. In June, the company idled three of the plant’s six operating potlines [...]
SouthWest Water Company today announced that its website, www.swwc.com, won a 2010 MarCom Platinum Award, and its employee newsletter, The Water Cooler, received a 2010 MarCom Gold Award – both for exceeding a high standard of excellence. The 2010 MarCom Awards were presented by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP).
“Our goal is to [...]
Homeland Energy Group Ltd. report the receipt of initial results of a mineral resource study relating to Homeland’s recently announced acquisition of Appolo Fuels, Inc. (Appolo) (see Homeland Energy press release August 27, 2008). The resource estimation is being performed by Norwest Corporation’s (Norwest) Charleston, West Virginia office in compliance with Canada’s National Instrument 43-101, [...]
At the Thermodynetics Annual Meeting of Shareholders, the shareholders approved the company’s reincorporation in the State of Nevada and reelected the directors John F. Ferraro, John H. Hughes, Robert A. Lerman and Fred H. Samuelson to serve for another year.
Mr. Lerman, the Company’s President and CEO, also announced that the newly formed UK company, Tower [...]