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Tungsten West targets dual production

Tungsten West plc announced the commissioning of a temporary aggregates plant for its local subsidiary as it aims for dual production alongside tin-tungsten in Devon. CASHFLOW The Terex® AggWash 60 plant will operate at Aggegrates West while the Hemerdon tin-tungsten process plant is redeveloped. A separate full-scale aggregates plant will be built next year. Aggregates […]

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Hummingbird mobilises equipment at Kouroussa

Hummingbird Resources plc announced mobilisation of equipment and personnel along with further “significant” results at its gold mine at Kouroussa in Guinea. OPERATIONS The company aims to start construction in early January 2022 with first gold pour targeted by the end of Q2 2023. Hummingbird has appointed construction and engineering firm WACOM for the work […]

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UKOG to develop geothermal hub at Horse Hill oil site

UK Oil & Gas plc announced it aimed to develop a geothermal energy hub (GeoHub) on part of its oil production site at Horse Hill near Gatwick, Surrey. JOINT VENTURE UKOG added it envisaged continuing oil production at Horse Hill to the end of economic life before repurposing boreholes and transforming the site into 100% […]

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Hurricane records 9,900 bopd from Lancaster P6 well

Hurricane Energy plc announced November production of 9,900 bopd from the P6 well alone at the Lancaster field, West of Shetland. LANCASTER 205/21a-4z The company also successfully completed the plugging and final abandonment (P&A) of the Lancaster 205/21a-4z well for a cost of $1 million.  A total of $2.2m of decommissioning security (previously classified as restricted […]

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Block starts drilling JKT-01Z well in XIB

Block Energy plc announced it had started drilling JKT-01Z well yesterday, targeting circa eight million barrels of oil-in-place, at its project in Georgia. PROGRAMME Well JKT-01Z is the second well in the company’s current two-well drill programme and lies near the vertical well KRT-39, which has produced c.450 Mbbls of oil over the past 20 […]

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Oriole non-executive chairman John McGloin to leave

Oriole Resources plc announced its non-executive chairman John McGloin will step down. Mr McGloin, who joined the gold exploration company in September 2018, will become chief executive officer of Diamond Fields Resources Inc. He will remain as chairman until 28 February 2022 unless Oriole appoints a successor before then.