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...Back in the UK, Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox took a big step to addressing regulatory concerns over his potential deal to acquire the 61 per cent of broadcaster Sky that it does not already own....
...For Mr Mackenzie, it was welcome good news after a difficult 18 months following a dam collapse at a joint venture mine in Brazil, which led to the deaths of 19 people....
...BHP splits responsibility for the Samarco mine with Brazilian giant Vale, via a joint venture company. Macondo spilled into open sea and went on spilling....
...times the size of the Bakken, the driver of the US shale revolution....
...The order is aimed at operations in one of the U.S.’s booming oil fields, the Bakken Shale in North Dakota, where production has far outpaced the availability of pipelines to move crude to refineries....
...Ever since US shale production took off during the past decade, oil companies have scoured the globe for fields that could replicate the success of the Bakken and other big US unconventional reservoirs....
...One route to lower costs could be Shell’s joint venture with PetroChina, which has begun working on shale gas production in China....
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