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...“By the end of 2025 we should have a very clear picture on a global scale from major oil and gas basins around the world,” said Steven Hamburg, chief scientist at EDF....
...“We were looking for . . . who has big leverage,” says Katie Anderson, who directs food and forestry programmes at its EDF+Business arm....
...But — ah, EDF!...
...Their credit has worn thin with the energy traders that give them access to the market, such as BP, Royal Dutch Shell, the French utility EDF and Macquarie, the Australian bank, industry executives said....
...They include Adobe, Carlsberg Group, Coca-Cola European Partners, Colgate-Palmolive, EDF, Electrolux, H&M, Mars, Nestlé, Orange, Salesforce, Telefónica, The Co-op and Vodafone....
...The LNG collaboration agreement between the two companies follows EDF’s sale of its coal and freight business to Jera last year....
...EDF of France has signed a 15-year contract to buy LNG from the plant. Earlier this month, Tokyo Gas of Japan and Centrica of the UK signed heads of agreement for 20-year purchases....
...Japan’s Jera, the world’s largest buyer of the fuel, last month announced it would combine its LNG trading arm with that of EDF’s in a non-binding agreement....
...In 2008, he led Chubu’s efforts to forge a coal buying joint venture with France’s EDF....
...CGN and a rival Chinese nuclear giant already share a one-third stake in the Hinkley Point C power station, under construction by French developer EDF....
...The agreement will combine EDF Trading’s coal and freight business in the Atlantic Basin with JERA’s footprint in Asia and the Pacific, EDF said....
...EDF Trading’s rivals also question what the future holds for the remainder of EDF’s trading business....
...The chief financial officer of EDF resigned over these concerns. Shareholders and credit rating agencies also warned about the risks to EDF from Hinkley....
...Ms Gentle has been replaced at Cheniere Marketing by Eric Bensaude, the former head of LNG at EDF Trading, the London-based commodity dealing arm of the French state-backed energy company....
...Renault, which wields de facto control over the larger Japanese carmaker through a 43.4 per cent stake, had to give up some of its powers as a result — not a good outcome for France Inc....
...He reckons that sticking to those criteria, and excluding complicated structured products, you end up with a list of companies topped by (French) utility EDF....
...EDF, which operates a nuclear power station there, bought the land recently....
...This paid off when Mr Proglio was made chief executive of national champion EDF in 2010 and made Mr Piquemal chief finance officer....
...could “put EDF in danger”....
...Other companies that have had to make similar impairments include Eon and RWE, the German utilities, and EDF of France....
...The biggest penalty to date involved EDF, the French energy group, which was ordered to repay €1.4bn....
...Customer satisfaction with Britain’s largest suppliers — British Gas, EDF, Eon, RWE’s Npower, ScottishPower and SSE — has fallen sharply in recent years, and the number of consumers turning to independent...
...Low energy It was a bad week for investors in European utilities, as RWE , Centrica, and EDF cut their dividends, write Guy Chazan....
...Last week EDF, the Hinkley reactor’s French builders, funked pressing the button and this week a spokesman said the project was “reaching a final investment decision soon”....
...Thomas Piquemal, the former chief financial officer of EDF who resigned last week is temporarily out of work and would be an ideal candidate....
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