By Alastair Ford Contrary to popular belief, not all Chinese investors have an endless supply of US dollars. Sure, the great parastatals do, and their investments are dictated largely by policy and the necessity of securing supply. But further down the food chain, things are a little different. And it’s further down the food chain…
By Martin Clark Canadian junior Eco Atlantic Oil & Gas is advancing its Namibian projects nicely, after a year of progress in the field and in the boardroom. The company, which is listed on the TSX Venture market, holds four petroleum licenses in the south-west African country, three offshore in the Walvis Basin area, and…
By Our Man in Oz Minews. Good morning Australia, your gold stocks seem to have had a good week. Oz. It’s more a case of a good two weeks to best see the recent performance of ASX-listed gold producers with last week’s 11.9 per cent rise in the gold index coming on top of a…
By Eithne Treanor It was just a few short weeks ago when talk of oil below US$50 a barrel seemed a bit extreme and the investment bankers and the analysts had that low a price positioned in the worst-case scenario. But as we have seen in the past, on the up side and now on…
By Alastair Ford Before the boom got underway in the early part of the last decade it was a truism that any junior mining company chief executive paying himself or herself more than £50,000 per year was taking shareholders for a ride. Then the boom came along and everybody was making so much money in…
By Our Oilbarrel Staff Specialist wellhead provider Plexus Holdings has started 2015 with another contract win, securing a £1.5 million add-on order from Brunei Shell Petroleum for three exploration wells. The new contracts covers both high pressure/high temperature and standard pressured wellhead systems and services as an addition to the company’s existing four-year contract with…
By Alastair Ford There’s been quite a lot of change at Caledonia Mining lately, what with a departing chairman, new personnel coming on board and a new plan for the company’s Blanket gold mine in Zimbabwe. But things are starting to settle down now – the plan is in place and the focus is now…
By Alastair Ford For investors battered by the sustained negativity towards junior mining, the headlines around Amara Mining’s Yaoure gold project in Cote D’Ivoire make for comforting reading. The latest upgrade has delivered a 63 per cent increase in the indicated resource, and takes the total resource base at Yaoure to 6.8 million ounces. Combined…
By Amy McLellan A good start to the year for London-listed Gulf Keystone Petroleum, which begins 2015 having met its year-end production target of 40,000 barrels per day from its Shaikan field in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. This has been a long-held goal for the company and, given the turbulent geopolitical backdrop in the…
By Martin Clark Yemen has never been the easiest of places to operate, but many companies do so profitably, and many have been there for a long period of time. Known oil and gas deposits make it worth the trouble, of which there can be plenty of that, despite the country dropping off the map…
