LSE Market News

UK grocers Sainsbury (LSE:SBRY) and Tesco (LSE:TSCO) published their interim results this morning.  The overall news for Sainsbury was not so bad; for Tesco, not so much.  Nonetheless, the share price of both grocery chains placed a burden on the FTSE from which has spent the day trying to recover. Follow a good report, Sainsbury […]

Will Centrica profits start heating up as a result? Centrica (LSE:CNA) and Qatar Petroleum International (QPI) have completed a C$1 billion agreement with Suncor Energy to acquire a package of producing oil and natural gas assets in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. The assets include proven and probable (2P) reserves estimated by the partners at […]

New World Oil and Gas (LSE:NEW), an oil and gas operating company focused on Denmark and Belize, is pleased to announce that it has secured an eight-month extension in work programme commitment deadlines for Licence 1/08 at its Danica Resources Project in Southern Denmark. This extension was discussed with Danica Resources ApS and the Danish […]

Northcote Energy (AIM:NCT), an onshore US oil and gas exploration and production company, has announced interim results for the six month period ended June 30 2013. Highlights: · Rapidly advancing strategy of building an extensive low-risk onshore oil and gas production company · Quadrupled production since January 2013 to 100boepd · Increased net acreage by […]

Makes second repayment of US$1 million on its debt facility with Macquarie Bank Limited from cash proceeds received from Eagle Ford Shale production. Empyrean Energy PLC (LSE:AIM), a US onshore oil, gas and condensate exploration, development and production company with assets in Texas and California, is pleased to report that, further to the announcement on […]

Sable Mining Africa (LSE:SBLM), an AIM listed exploration company, has announced the granting of a mining licence for the Nimba Iron Ore Project in south-west Guinea, the second largest undeveloped on- or near-rail Direct Shipping Ore project to be held outside the major mining companies in West Africa. The licence, or “Permit D’Exploitation Miniere”, number […]

DekelOil Public (LSE:DKL), operator and 51% owner of an established vertically integrated palm oil project in Côte d’Ivoire, has published its interim results for the six month period ended 30 June 2013. Highlights: Successful listing on AIM in March 2013 in tandem with a £2.3 million fundraising 60t/hr CPO extraction mill (‘the Mill’) remains on […]

. Premier African Minerals (LSE:PREM), a multi-commodity natural resource company with mineral projects located in Western and Southern Africa, has announced that RHA Tungsten Private Limited (‘RHA’) has simultaneously concluded a shareholder agreement and a management agreement with the National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Fund (‘NIEEF’), representing and acting for and on behalf...

Mariana Resources (LSE:MARL), an exploration and development company focused in Peru and southern Argentina, is pleased to announce that it has executed the amended Definitive Agreement with Condor Resources Inc. for Area 1 (being the southernmost Pucayacu precious and base metal target) at the Condor de Oro project Department of Cajamarca, northern Peru. The signing […]

A number of years ago I was privileged to work alongside a recently retired U.S. Army “Bird Colonel.”  Had he not retired, his next rank would have been Major General.  I consider him one of my mentors.  Perhaps the greatest lesson that he taught me was that, “You do not have to fight every battle. […]