New tie-ups at Graphene NanoChem (LON:GRPH), aiming to produce new speciality chemicals, meant that all makers of the so-called ‘miracle material’ were on the advance, Jamie Nimmo reports.

The shares, like the one-molecule thick graphite compound, were revealed to be both strong and conductive. ( ) was hitting new all-time highs of 512p, after rising 5.5%, whilst Graphene NanoChem itself rose 8%, and Cientifica (LON:CTFA) shot up 19%.

Whilst Monday’s chatter around the drinking water purification and dispensing systems may not have been about AIM quoted ’s ( ) 2013 growth spurt, John Harrington’s delve into the group’s financial results indicates that perhaps it should’ve.

The firm’s revenue, underlying earnings and gross margin all improved substantially from 2012, and in the current year the roll-out of high-tech water-coolers into emerging markets promises more growth.

Internet TV group Motive ( ) revealed that Tablet Television, which will allow users to watch TV on a tablet without an internet connection, expects to launch commercial operations this autumn.

That will follow its first full market beta test in the summer in San Francisco.

AIM oil driller Petroceltic ( ), meanwhile, cranked up anticipation for next month’s primary test results from the Shakrok exploration well in Kurdistan after revealing a secondary target contained limited amounts of gas condensate.

The result doesn’t have any impact on Shakrok’s primary target, the company says.

( ) finally confirmed the finer points of its farm-out deal for the Puka oil field in New Zealand.

The deal is with Australia-listed MEO, which will initially 30% of the project in return for funding NZ$4mln of a NZ$5mln work programme.

"The agreed work programme is designed to boost near-term oil production, verify the Puka 2P resource, and accelerate the commercialisation of the oil potential identified within the permit,” chairman Ian Gowrie-Smith told investors.

UK gas driller ( ) is set to join London’s AIM market next month. The company’s dual listing will complete on Monday May 12, according to AIM admission documents submitted today.

Dart is one of the leading firms in the UK’s nascent shale gas industry, with acreage in Cheshire, Staffordshire, the East Midlands and South Wales. It also has coal-bed methane operations in Scotland.

( ) has unveiled the latest partnership in the Bentley heavy oil field development venture, with Norwegian contractor Teekay Shipping coming aboard. A memorandum of understanding envisages Teekay supplying Xcite with a bridge linked floating storageand offloading (FSO) for the life of the field.

Another new partnership will help develop an altogether cleaner source of energy from the sea, as tidal power firm ( ) has expanded its partnership with China’s Dongfang Electrical Machinery for a programme of testing in Hangzhou.

The testing is expected to be a precursor to the deployment of the group’s 1 megawatt turbine (AR1000) later this year at an offshore demonstration project developed by China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP).

It will be the first commercial scale tidal stream turbine to be launched in China.

Miner ( ) was granted a permit to start trial mining underground at its Sturec gold deposit in Slovakia.

The permission to mine was granted by the District Mining Bureau subject to Ortac sticking to the plan it submitted, which specified ore extraction will be carried out using underground mining methods only.

(LONCMCL) maintained its production guidance of 48,000 ounces of gold for 2014 despite producing less of the yellow metal in the first quarter than the fourth of last year.

Updating Monday on the first three months, the firmsaid 10,607 ounces of gold were produced - that's a 7.2% decrease on the 11,429 produced in Q4. The figure was, however, an increase on the 10,472 ounces seen in the first quarter of 2013.

Metal recycling specialist ( ) plans to raise a further £3.93 million through an open offer to shareholders to complete the ramp-up of its Korean recycling plant.