Commodities

That Was The Week That Was … In Australia

By Our Man in Oz Minews. Good morning Australia, you seem to have had quite a week with gold stocks…

ASX – listed Pura Vida Energy gears up to drill its first potentially high impact and company making well in Moroccan towards the end of 2015

By Stewart Dalby Pura Vida Energy is not one of those start-ups which adopts a model of finding some production…

Poweralternatives: Maple Energy’s Peruvian ethanol ambitions felled by drought, debt and downtime

By Amy McLellan E&P companies may be reeling from the rout in the oil price but biofuel producers are also…

Market Overview: It has been another week of gloom and doom in oil markets with further price falls predicted

By Eithne Treanor It was another week of doom and gloom on the oil market, but the International Energy Agency…

Tullow Oil tallies record write-offs and cuts exploration spend as it focuses on low cost production in West Africa

By Amy McLellan, The oil price is continuing to inflict pain across the sector, with even the biggest companies pulling…

Copper Takes A Dive As The Global Economy Wobbles And Hot Money Switches To Gold

By Alastair Ford Copper prices have fallen sharply in the wake of a downgrade from the global economy from the…

Taipan Resources spuds Badada-1 in Kenya’s Anza Basin

By Amy McLellan The highly anticipated Badada-1 wildcat in Block 2B in Kenya's Anza Basin has spudded, a potential play-opener…

LGO Energy achieves its long sought after target of 2000 bopd from Trinidad

By Stewart Dalby A year ago the managers of LGO Energy, which was then called Leni Gas & Oil, talked…

George Ogilvie Has Got Kirkland Lake Gold Generating Cash Again, But $120 Million Of Debt Remains Outstanding

By Alastair Ford It’s been an interesting 12 months for George Ogilvie. George was appointed chief executive of Kirkland Lake…

Sound Oil walks from Antrim deal as oil price continues to sink

By Amy McLellan With the oil price still in free-fall, oil companies are weighing their options carefully as what looked…