By Laurence Read of CSR21.org Robert Friedland, of Ivanhoe mines, is the man who makes Miley Cirus look like the awkward shy girl at the prom. A keynote speaker anywhere he goes Friedland’s focus at the Tuesday session of Mines & Money 2015 was how the PGM group of metals (to be produced from…
By Amy McLellan Another six months and another set of record interims for Plexus Holdings, the specialist wellhead engineering group. The AIM-quoted engineering group has reported a seven per cent increase in revenues to £13.5 million for the last six months of 2014, a 14 per cent increase in EBITDA to £4 million and a…
By Martin Clark It has been the best part of a year since we last took a peak at Canadian-listed TransAtlantic Petroleum which, at that time, was seeing production numbers on the rise thanks to sustained drilling activity in Turkey, its core territory. This is still keeping the company busy but the benefits are there…
By Amy McLellan After a run of successful test results from its Wressle-1 oil find in the East Midlands Basin onshore UK, Monday brought a reality check for backers of AIM-quoted Europa Oil & Gas when the nearby Kiln Lane-1 well came back dry. This is the nature of exploration but it did dent the…
By Amy McLellan Sound Oil, with its shares trading near 52-week highs, continues to escape the malaise enveloping the sector. The AIM-quoted company has impressed over the last two years for its consistency in delivering on its plans despite operating in Italy, a country better known for red tape and delay. Sound, which has a…
By Eithne Treanor The low oil price environment seems to be settling in for longer than the market anticipated as OPEC and non-OPEC producers continue to deliver oil to an over supplied market. Strength in the dollar also impacted the price slide this week and in early trading on Friday, Brent crude was priced below…
