Member Info for jange

Rosneft has a stated objective and budget to reduce flaring and make better use of associated gas. This facility is envisioned as the first of many commercial GTL plants that will convert gas associated with oil production into synthetic crude or high quality downstream products, including synthetic diesel, waxes and naphtha (an important petrochemical feedstock).

Synthetic fuels company Oxford Catalysts has signed a tie-up with Russian oil giant Rosneft to help design and construct a gas-to-liquids (GTL) demonstration plant. The plant, located in Irkutsk Oblast, just north of the Russian/Mongolian border will have a capacity of 10m cubic metres per year of natural gas, equivalent to approximately 100 barrels per day of synthetic crude

Educational software supplier RM has said that following a review of its UK operations it has decided to sell a number of its businesses, including ISIS Concepts, the sale of which has now been completed for £205,000. The sale was made to ISIS Concepts Holdings, a new company formed by Nick Topliss, who owned ISIS before it was sold to RM in 2009, and has remained as its Managing Director. Rob Sirs, former Managing Director of RM, is expected to invest in ISIS Concepts Holdings in the near future. In the financial year to date, ISIS has been loss-making. RM has agreed to provide a short-term working capital loan facility of up to £850,000, secured on freehold property and other assets valued in excess of that figure.

Planet Payment has posted a 22% rise in net revenue to $11.7m (2011 $9.6m) for the first quarter, although income remained stable at $0.8m. Income from operations rose from $0.3m to $0.9m. The company said the growth in revenue reflects the increase in transaction processing volumes, primarily driven by increases in active merchant locations. Adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) for the period increased 75% to $1.7m (2011: $1.0m).

Braveheart Investment Group, which specialises in venture capital investments, has raised £164,000 after placing over one million new ordinary shares at 15p per share. The new subscription shares will represent around 4.8% of the issued share capital of the company as enlarged by the subscription. The proceeds of the subscription will be used for general working capital, the firm said.

Specialist environmental support services group Silverdell has been awarded a number of contracts in May totalling £3.58m, including a contract in Canada from an international specialist material company. The Canadian contract will deliver £1.25m of revenues in the second half of the current financial year and is an "important step" in the company's broader strategic initiative to penetrate a number of regulated international markets," the firm said. The company also reported that a previously announced rail contract worth £0.5m is likely to be materially higher in value and is now anticipated to form part of a larger framework contract to include up to 72 stations over the next seven years

Brooks Pierce, the Executive Director of Sportech, has resigned with immediate effect to 'pursue other business interests'. No replacement has yet been appointed, but the company was keen to announce that it had appointed an executive search business to 'seek suitable candidates to further augment Sportech's Executive Directors in order to take advantage of the many opportunities available in North America'

With cash in the bank the current market cap seems to belie the huge potential of this small group that has been transformed over the past 12 months

Atleast youve got iphone ive got a simple battered sony ericsson that somebody through away lol.........

Im not has well off as you,im a simple pauper who has to beg for crums that people drop.........

If got a good feeling about this share,well worth a punt here mate,growing very quick...........

About China UnionPay Established in March 2002, China UnionPay is a bankcard association established under the approval of the State Council and the People's Bank of China. At present, the Shanghai-headquartered UnionPay has about 400 domestic and overseas associate members. China UnionPay operates the national inter-bank clearing and settlement system, develops the worldwide UnionPay Card acceptance network, promotes the issuance and usage of the UnionPay Card as well as other innovative payment solutions, to provide quality, efficient and safe payment services to cardholders. To date, the total number of the UnionPay Card issued both at home and aboard has exceeded 2.9billion. The UnionPay network has been extended to all the cities and rural areas in China. In addition, China UnionPay has enabled the UnionPay Card acceptance in over 125 countries and regions through extensive cooperation with about 400 institutions around the world. Additional information may be found at: www.unionpay.com.

Even companys anouncing good news sp are not rising,worrying times ahead mate,its hard to know what to do for the best........

Thorntons Direct sales increased by 2.2% to £2.5m, boosted by a successful Easter while online sales climbed 7.3% in the period.

Commenting on trading, chief executive Jonathan Hart said, "We saw a good performance at Easter across all our channels...however, sales of our all year-round products in the Commercial channel were lower as the difficult consumer environment continues." "We continue to focus on restoring profitability and we are seeing early signs of progress resulting in an overall satisfactory trading performance.

A good trading performance at Easter was offset by lower sales of all-year round products, it said. Franchise sales increased by 12.6% to £3.1m as customers restocked through key spring trading seasons Mothers Day and Easter. Its Own Stores experienced good Easter sales growth, it added.

Third quarter total sales fell 2.7% to £62.4m, including the impact of the store closure programme. Sales excluding store closures were broadly flat. Thorntons, which expects to have closed 40 of its 344 UK stores by its financial year-end, confirmed a further 11 own stores were closed in the quarter as it progressed with its strategy. Overall sales declined by 6.1% to £29.4m for the 16 weeks up to and including April 28th 2012. Commercial sales fell 0.9% to £27.4m.

Chocolatier Thorntons said third quarter like for like sales fell 1.6 per cent, supported by a successful Easter trading period. While the chocolate manufacturer and retailer saw an improvement in its underlying like for like decline, it said the difficult consumer environment continues.

"The principal forces working to re-balance the fleet are the continuing growth in demand from Asia for energy and raw materials and the scrapping of older ships. However, the pace of correction is difficult to assess because of the uncertain macroeconomic picture. In this environment shipbroking activity is likely to remain high but with continuing pressure on margins," the group said in a statement. "Braemar is well-equipped to trade in the competitive and challenging markets," Hearne added.

Revenues from the Technical, Logistics and Environmental divisions climbed £19.2m to £83.7m and now represent 63% of total group revenues, up from 51% in 2011. Looking ahead Braemar said the shipping markets are likely to feel the effects of the tonnage surplus for a few years to come.