By Stewart Dalby The latest announcement and operational update from Circle Oil has attracted a lot of coverage from analysts and brokers – I have five notes spread across my desk as I write including those from Peel Hunt, Westhouse, SP Angel and Investec. All of them have homed in on the conversion of the…
By Amy McLellan The oil price may be low and the Greek economy may be in turmoil but the country’s sole oil producer, Energean Oil & Gas, sees this as a time of opportunity rather than retrenchment. Indeed, the Athens-based E&P has bid for two blocks in the Western Greece Onshore Licensing Round, capitalising on…
By Our Man in Oz If asked to name the best performing mining stocks since the start of the year it’s a fair bet that not many investors would nominate Australian-listed Alkane Resources. But that would be an interesting oversight, given its 64 per cent price rise over the past 30 trading days. Several factors…
By Our Man in Oz Minews. Good morning Australia. Last week’s strong profit result from Rio Tinto seems have woken your mining market with a jolt on Friday. Oz. It certainly did, though the reaction to Rio Tinto’s generous treatment of shareholders was largely confined to it and fellow big boy, BHP Billiton. Without Rio…
By Eithne Treanor The positive trend in recent weeks continued with the price of Brent crude at its highest for the first time this year. While excess supply may be leaving the market, a weaker US dollar and signs of strength in the Eurozone were also helping to build optimism. In early trading on Friday,…
By Bianca Markram The trend Indaba attendees talked about over and over in Cape Town the past week is that raising funds, especially for exploration companies in early stage, is virtually impossible. But if a company were to try, the equity market is the last place to go to. And yet on the last day…
By Mark Nunn of CSR21.org The fourth and last day of Mining Indaba 2015 was the dedicated Sustainable Mining Day. It’s always the last day, isn’t it? But still: Auditorium 2, a sizeable enough space, was packed – far busier than it’d been at any point throughout the week. Perhaps it was the money men…
By Bianca Markram in Cape Town Since the African Mining Indaba started in 1995, the industry has lived through an unprecedented boom with a decade of unparalleled growth – and wealth. But two decades later, the industry is at a juncture where many companies’ management and their investors have had to make hard decisions to…
By Stewart Dalby Most small cap oil and gas companies whether quoted on London’s AIM or elsewhere , their share prices withered by the sharp fall in oil prices, have reacted in the same way –they plans up plans dramatically to cut costs. Empyrean Energy is in a different position to most and has reacted…
By Amy McLellan Shareholders in Taipan Resources may be keeping a close eye on Block 2B in Kenya, where the TSX Venture-quoted company has a material 30 per cent stake in a potential basin-opening wildcat, but this week also brought news of its Block 1 project. Unfortunately, this news was not so encouraging, with the…
