NFE/1.0 Top Stories - StoxRox.com http://www.stoxrox.com/ en webmaster@stoxrox.com ©2008 StoxRox.com Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:45:21 EDT Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:45:21 EDT http://www.stoxrox.com/static/tpl/hlogo.png http://www.stoxrox.com/ http://www.stoxrox.com/headline/kqiVxZOUlpo=/SmarTrend(R) Opening Bell Comments -- June 12, 2008 8f8841eba6eec093fe1aae4705bf6341 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:01:00 EDT Last Updated: June 12, 2008: 6:55 AM ET---Today, U.S. stock futures are trading higher on news of a $46 billion takeover bid for Anheuser-Busch and hopes of better-than-expected May retail sales figures. Shares of Anheuser-Busch (NYSE:BUD) will receive active trade Thursday after Belgian Brewer InBev made an unsolicited all-cash bid of $65 a share. According to the Wall Street Journal, Citigroup (NYSE:C) will be closing down a $800 million hedge fund its CEO Vikram Pandit co-founded almost one year ago. In commodities news, light sweet crude for July delivery is down $2.14 to $134.24 a barrel in electronic trading. In addition to a government report on retail sales numbers for May, investors will be digesting reports on weekly jobless claims, business inventories and natural gas stocks. At the time of this report, S&P futures are up 7.40 points, Nasdaq futures are up 8.75 points and Dow futures are up 61.00 points. For more information on SmarTrend, Comtex News Network's revolutionary stock analysis application, please go to http://www.mysmartrend.com http://www.stoxrox.com/headline/k6aSx5OamJU=/Summit submits application for access road in McKenzie County f88c452af0cb84c53f6d1729381ca0e0 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:28:57 EDT Summit Resources Inc., a Canadian-based company, has submitted an application to build a gravel access road in McKenzie County. http://www.stoxrox.com/headline/k6aS15KVmZY=/Acergy S.A. Announces Contract Award in the Norwegian Sea 23685eba395d8b9f9af8e7cc2bd48316 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:11:25 EDT Acergy S.A. (NASDAQ: ACGY) (OSLO: ACY) announced today the award of a contract valued at approximately $60 million from BP Norge AS on behalf of the Skarv licensees. http://www.stoxrox.com/headline/k6aS15KVk5s=/Entergy Louisiana Delays Little Gypsy Repowering Project, an Industrial Info News Alert fa57eaa46481140c6b5b4da74f393afe Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:01:28 EDT Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Entergy Louisiana LLC (Jefferson, Louisiana), a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation (NYSE:ETR) (New Orleans, Louisiana), has temporarily delayed the estimated $1.5 billion repowering project at its Little Gypsy Power Station in La Place, Louisiana, pushing the project into 2009. The Little Gypsy plant is a 1,251-megawatt (MW) gas/oil-fired power facility and includes three General Electric (NYSE:GE) (Fairfield, Connecticut) steam turbine/generators with three Riley Stoker and Foster Wheeler (NASDAQ:FWLT) (Clinton, New Jersey) boilers. http://www.stoxrox.com/headline/k6aS0piWlJc=/Harvest Natural Resources Commences Drilling Operations - Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana 4bda6de5357c73b8d1f738b935b95b79 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:00:00 EDT Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE: HNR) announced today the commencement of drilling operations on the Hunter No. 1 well on its Starks natural gas and condensate prospect in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. Starks is the first exploration prospect to be drilled in Harvest's recently announced Gulf Coast area of mutual interest (AMI) with a private company. The AMI participants have secured a 6,800 acre lease position on the prospect. Mobilization of Helmerich and Payne Rig 137 to the drilling location commenced on August 25 and the well is expected to spud around September 1, 2008. http://www.stoxrox.com/headline/k6aS0piWmJM=/Saft, Conergy and Tenesol Launch SOLION, Europe's Largest Photovoltaic Energy Storage Development Project d31c2ed4f1f8770e04d2f1d80284eccf Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:00:00 EDT Saft, Conergy and Tenesol have announced the launch of SOLION, a Franco-German project dedicated to the development of a new concept in energy conversion and storage for grid connected photovoltaic (PV) systems. http://www.stoxrox.com/headline/k6aS15GdlZs=/MERALCO GETS NOD TO BUY TRANSCO'S SUB-TRANSMISSION ASSET 60b72dad2afeeaad883d2b98068b6c1b Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:17:43 EDT Distribution giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) has finally gotten the approval of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) for the purchase of the sub-transmission assets (STA) owned by the National Transmission Corporation (TransCo). http://www.stoxrox.com/headline/k6aS0piWkpk=/Day4 Energy Offers Turnkey Solution to Solar Power Investors f3633058471314626a70d3b341259796 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:00:00 EDT Project Financing Partnership to Fuel Growth in Deployment of Leading Solar Power Generation Products http://www.stoxrox.com/headline/k6aS15Gclps=/PETROCHINA'S H1 NET PLUNGES 34 PCT ON FUEL PRICE CAPS, TAXES 3ce90464bad583c960580fdbff174ac6 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:47:43 EDT PetroChina Company Limited (SSE:601857; SEHK:0857) reported on Wednesday that its first-half net profit slid 34.5 per cent over the same period last year, pushed down by fuel price caps and windfall taxes. http://www.stoxrox.com/headline/k6aS15GclZk=/CHINA NATIONAL OFFSHORE OIL POSTS 89 PCT JUMP IN H1 NET 53fb9e64a0a9b28241c6f924f6629117 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:45:42 EDT China National Offshore Oil Company Limited (CNOOC Ltd) on Wednesday announced that first half net profit rose by 89.3 per cent over the same period last year amid high oil prices and rising production.