A $1.6 billion uranium mining deal between France and Mongolia that is part of French efforts to diversify supplies to power its fleet of nuclear reactors is running into political hurdles.
Oil rose to near the top of its recent trading range after a smaller-than-expected increase in US crude stockpiles added to signs of a tightening physical market.
Houston-based Sage Geosystems has raised $17 million in Series A funding, which will finance the company's three-megawatt commercial geopressured geothermal facility facility to be constructed in Texas.