Third Quarter Coking Coal Sales of 1.9 Million Tons up 35.2 Percent Versus Prior Year; Year-to-Date Sales Volumes Ahead of Same Period Last Year
Company Resumes Delivery on Carryover Coal Contracts at $315 per Ton
Company Expects Premium Hard Coking Coal Production and Sales of Approximately 8 Million Tons in 2010 and Up to 9.5 Million Tons [...]

Arena Resources, Inc. (NYSE: ARD - News) (“Arena”) (“Company”) announced today financial results for the three months and six months ended June 30, 2009.
Three Months Ended June 30, 2009
For the three-month period ended June 30, 2009, Arena had oil and gas revenues of $27,636,695 compared to $62,159,281 for the quarter ended June 30, 2008, a [...]

Hercules Offshore (HERO) is a provider of shallow-water drilling and lift-boat services to the oil and natural gas exploration and production industry. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas and employs roughly 3,100 employees.
In terms of financial strength, HERO’s EPS took a big hit in 2008, whereby the ($12.1)/share results damaged the stock from its [...]

Hercules Offshore (HERO) is a provider of shallow-water drilling and lift-boat services to the oil and natural gas exploration and production industry. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas and employs roughly 3,100 employees.
In terms of financial strength, HERO’s EPS took a big hit in 2008, whereby the ($12.1)/share results damaged the stock from its [...]

HOUSTON, May 22 — Energy prices fell May 21 with the biggest one-day drop in natural gas futures prices since August 2007 as the major US equity stock indexes were hammered and the dollar gained in value.
The front-month crude contract fell from a 6-month high but remained above $61/bbl on the New York Mercantile [...]

Motorists still paying less than they did in 2008
Drivers aren’t exactly thrilled about paying more for gas than they were a month ago, but it sure beats the price they were paying at this time last year.
Gas prices climbed to an average of $2.30 a gallon in the Lafayette metro area Thursday.
That’s up 31 cents [...]

The average price per gallon of self-serve regular climbs 6.9 cents to $2.424 in the state and 16.2 cents to $2.240 nationally, the government’s weekly survey of fuel stations shows.
With rising oil prices providing a brisk tail wind, gasoline prices jumped during the last week, rising nearly 7 cents a gallon in California and more [...]

By Suzanne Bohan
Contra Costa Times
When the first Model T left the assembly line in 1908, by design it could run on ethanol or gas. Henry Ford, the car’s manufacturer, added that flexibility because he envisioned a day when ethanol — made from crops grown on American soil — would provide the bulk of fuel for [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. drivers are paying the lowest gasoline prices in five years heading into a Christmas holiday week, the government said on Monday.
The national price for regular unleaded gasoline is $1.65 a
gallon, down just over half a cent from the previous week and $1.33 less than a year ago, the federal Energy Information [...]

By MARK WILLIAMS
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Retail gasoline fell to a new three-year low Tuesday and in an unprecedented decline, crude oil costs $100 less per barrel than it did four months ago with a U.S. recession eating away at energy demand.
Analysts believe prices at the pump may finally be bottoming out after a precipitous [...]