Vancouver – – October 11, 2026 -- Rio Silver Inc. (TSX.V: RYO; OTC: RYOOF) won shareholder approval for every resolution at its annual general meeting on June 12, 2026, with 13,099,198 common shares, or 22.24% of issued and outstanding shares at the record date, represented in person or by proxy.

Vancouver – October 11, 2026 -- Rio Silver Inc. (TSX.V: RYO) has received approval to trade on the OTCQB Venture Market under the symbol "RYOOF", and has granted 850,000 incentive stock options to consultants.

Buffalo – October 11, 2026 -- National Grid has completed a $32 million modernization of its 110-year-old Perry Street substation in Buffalo, adding 13,200-volt delivery to a site that previously supplied only 4,160 volts. The project is the first of about a dozen substations the utility plans to modernize or rebuild in the coming years.

Atlanta – October 10, 2026 -- Southern Company's utilities have restored power to about 420,000 customers across Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi after Hurricane Isaias, with roughly 80,000 outages still open as of 6 p.m. ET.

Alabama accounts for most of the 80,000 remaining outages

Alabama Power, Georgia Power and Mississippi Power are working to restore service in the hardest-hit communities. Those outages are concentrated mainly in Alabama, where Hurricane Isaias crossed the state.

Houston – October 10, 2026 -- CenterPoint Energy (NYSE: CNP) is sending 355 employees and contractors to Pensacola to help Florida Power & Light restore outages caused by Hurricane Isaias along the Northwest Florida Coast.

Riyadh – October 10, 2026 -- KAPSARC will send more than 20 leaders, researchers and experts to the 25th WPC Energy Congress in Riyadh as a National Partner, with a presence across the Executive, Technical, Synergy and Special Programmes.

Houston – October 08, 2026 -- Drilling Tools International Corp. (NASDAQ: DTI) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aberdeen-based Saltire Energy Limited and Foxley Energy Limited for approximately $80 million in cash plus 17.4 million shares of DTI common stock, a deal expected to close in the first quarter of 2027.

Dhahran, Saudi Arabia – October 08, 2026 -- National Energy Services Reunited Corp. (NESR) has signed an agreement with Aramco worth up to approximately $200 million over five years to execute the Aramco 2027 Lithium Demonstration Project, marking Saudi Arabia's first lithium production initiative.

London – October 08, 2026 -- Markel Insurance has launched a new Chemical, Oil & Gas related Energy Property (CORE) offering for small to midsize US-domiciled businesses, backed by coverage limits of up to $50 million on primary and excess-of-loss bases.

Hefei – October 08, 2026 -- Chinese battery storage manufacturer HIZENERGY secured multiple letters of intent from European partners after showcasing its commercial and industrial (C&I) battery energy storage systems at two trade exhibitions in September.