Rolls-Royce (LON:RR) has been awarded an US$89 million MissionCare contract by the U.S. Department of Defense Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River to provide support for the F405 (Adour) engines that power the U.S. Navy's T-45 training aircraft.
BT Group (LON:BT.A) said that Nick Rose, the outgoing Group Finance Director of Diageo (LON:DGE), is to join the BT board as a non-executive director. His appointment takes effect from January 1 2011.
Scottish & Southern Energy (LON:SSE) has said that it welcomes the UK government's consultation on Electricity Market Reform (EMR) as the next step towards establishing a “robust and enduring market framework for the electricity sector in the transition to a low carbon economy”.
BG Group (LON:BG) confirmed that the eleventh well on the BM-S-11 concession in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil, was successful.
The biopharmaceuticals group Lipoxen (LON:LPX) revealed today very encouraging phase II trial results for its long-acting EPO candidate ErepoXen.
Goldplat (LON:GDP) has reported a maiden resource statement for the Nyieme gold project in Burkina Faso. The resource has been calculated for just a small part of the 246 square kilometre Nyieme project. It is based on an 11 hole drilling programme, on the first of twelve targets at Nyieme.
Deltex Medical’s (LON:DEMG) French distribution partner Gamida SA has won a tender to supply the CardioQ-ODM (oesophageal Doppler monitoring) device to the Paris public hospital system.
Churchill Mining (LON:CHL) has completed the purchase of the land to be used as the site of the future port facility for the shipment of coal from the East Kutai project in Indonesia.
Sirius Minerals (LON:SXX) is set to appoint Russell Scrimshaw as a non-exec director, following the Scrimshaw Family Trust investing £1.3 million into the company and being granted 37.5 million share options.
Planet Payment (LON:PPT, OTCQX:PLPM) said that Inter-Atlantic Fund LP upped its stake by 1.8 million shares to 3.15 million shares for 6 percent of the voting rights.
European Goldfields (LON:EGU, TSX:EGU) has hired a group of financial institutions to arrange a US$300 million loan to help it advance its gold projects in Greece.
Nyota Minerals (LON:NYO, ASX:NYO) has hired JEMA International and SRK Consulting to complete an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for the Tulu Kapi gold project in Ethiopia.
Equatorial Palm Oil PLC (LON:PAL) announced that the installation of the Liberia's only commercial palm oil processing mill is proceeding on schedule, and the facility is expected to be commissioned by the end of this month.
Xcite Energy (LON:XEL, TSX-V:XEL) has extended the binding letter of intent it announced last month with a view to securing a first stage production rig for the Bentley heavy oil field it is currently developing in the North Sea.