Harvard senior lecturer to speak


May 12, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

Harvard senior lecturer to speak

CHAMPION

Joseph Fuller, Harvard Business School senior lecturer and founder of the global consulting firm Monitor-Deloitte, will speak on “Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America’s Middle Skills,” from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 20 at Kent State University at Trumbull.

Fuller will be joined by panelists for a discussion and question-and-answer session. The event will address America’s middle-skills gap and is part of the Rebuilding America series, sponsored by the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber, in partnership with the Mahoning Valley Manufacturers Coalition, Youngstown State University, Oh-Penn Manufacturing Collaborative and Advanced Manufacturing Industry Partnership. To register, contact Amy Young at 330-744-2131, ext. 12.

MVMC meeting

canfield

The Mahoning Valley Manufacturers Coalition quarterly membership meeting will be at the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center, 7300 N. Palmyra Road, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Friday.

Those planning to attend should park in the back of the building and enter door 36. The agenda will include new member announcements; manufacturing readiness program summary and progress; apprenticeship initiative update; and educational updates from county career and technical centers and Eastern Gateway Community College.

Drilling report

WASHINGTON

The U.S. Energy Information Administration released its latest Drilling Productivity Report on Monday. The EIA projects 64,000 barrels of oil will be produced, compared with 65,000 in the Utica Shale in June. The EIA also projects 2,460 million cubic feet of natural gas will be produced in May, compared with 2,509 million cubic feet in June.

Royal Dutch Shell clears major hurdle for Arctic drilling

ANCHORAGE, Alaska

Royal Dutch Shell’s Arctic drilling program has cleared a major bureaucratic hurdle to begin drilling for oil and gas off Alaska’s northwestern coast this summer.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Monday approved the multi-year exploration plan in the Chukchi Sea for Shell after reviewing thousands of comments from the public, Alaska Native organizations and state and federal agencies.

The approval came just days before a planned protest of the drilling program in Seattle.

Shell still must obtain other permits from state and federal agencies, including one to drill from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. Both BOEM and BSEE are agencies of the U.S. Department of Interior. The company also must obtain government opinions that find Shell can comply with terms and conditions of the Endangered Species Act.

Shell spokesman Curtis Smith said the approval “is an important milestone and signals the confidence regulators have in our plan.

Staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Aqua America, .61, 26.35 -0.14

Avalon Holdings,3.60 0.05

Clear Channel, .46 22.45 0.27

Cortland Bancorp, 15.15 0

Farmers Nat., .128.10 -0.04

First Energy, 1.44, 34.99 -0.1

Fifth/Third, .5220.310.09

FirstMerit Corp., .64,19.60 0.02

First Niles Financial, .32,8.500

FNB Corp., .48,13.410.1

General Motors, 1.2035.19-0.13

General Electric, .88,26.91-0.45

Huntington Bank, .20, 11.11 0.11

JP Morgan Chase, 1.60,65.52 0.02

Key Corp, .26,14.750.17

LaFarge, 18.00 -0.06

Macy’s, 1.25, 66.040.1

Parker Hannifin, 1.92, 122.330.84

PNC, 1.92,93.60-0.05

RTI Intl. Metals,38.49-0.35

Simon Prop. Grp.,5.20,184.35-3.3

Stoneridge 11.67 -0.01

Talmer Bank, 15.690.16

United Comm. Fin., .04 5.450.02

Selected prices at 4 p.m. Monday. Provided by Stifel. Not to be construed as an offer or recommendation to buy or sell any security.