Oil and Energy

Deep Down, Inc. announced unaudited results on August 15, 2008, for the three months and six months ended June 30, 2008, on Form 10-Q filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Universal Energy Corp. , an emerging U.S. oil and gas exploration and production company, reported financial and operational results for its second quarter of the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008.

Marathon Oil Corporation announced on July 31, 2008, that the Company's board of directors declared a dividend of 24 cents per share on Marathon Oil Corporation's common stock. The dividend is payable Sept. 10, 2008 to stockholders of record Aug. 20, 200

Marathon Oil Corporation announced today that Clarence P. Cazalot, Jr., Marathon president and CEO, will be presenting at Lehman Brothers' CEO Energy/Power Conference inNew York on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008, at 11:05 a.m. EDT.

Avenue Group, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has produced over 3,200 barrels of oil from its 50% owned Heletz-Kokhav License, part of the Heletz Field in southern Israel .

Unbridled Energy Corporation provides an update on its operations and corporate activities.

In the first half of 2008, not a single corn-based ethanol plant has started construction, and the biodiesel industry had only a handful of construction starts. Almost daily, projects are being canceled or being put on hold until market conditions improv

Mechel OAO , one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces that reconstruction of the last of four systems for gas cleaning at its Bratsk Ferroalloy Plant subsidiary is near completion.