Drilling & production - 21 March 2013

OptaSense signs extension to product development framework agreement with Shell

Northern acquires additional leases over 4000 acres increasing its aggregate holding of petroleum and natural gas mineral rights in Canada to 9300 acres.

Brazilian mining giant, Vala, has lifted force majeure on a number of its coal sales contracts in Mozambique.

It is almost ten years since the invasion of Iraq, yet today the country still sees bombings and shootings on a daily basis. The central provinces remain socially fragmented with one of the highest rates of terrorist attack in the world. The north of the country also sees a high degree of political risk amid an ongoing competition for control between the federal and regional Kurdish governments.