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...EQT Corporation has agreed to acquire Rice Energy in a $6.7bn deal that will combine two of the leading producers in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale to become the largest natural gas producer in the US....
...One of the most aggressive examples of this pivot is Canada’s Encana Corporation. On Monday it said it would buy Texas oil producer Athlon Energy, in an all-cash deal with an aggregate value of $7bn....
...Duvernay and Montney have seen a boom with Encana Corporation, Chevron and Talisman Energy amassing land positions to unlock its liquids-rich reserves....
...A $15bn bid by China National Offshore Oil Corporation for Nexen of Canada is under intense scrutiny. Mr Paradis has said he will rule on that by December 10....
...Paul, while hoping a man of Rupert’s years avoids such an act in public, asked: what should we make of the WSJ’s story on Tuesday that News Corporation, the Murdochs’ parent company, is considering splitting...
...Chesapeake Energy shares rose 3.4 per cent to $19.36 in spite of reports that the US Justice Department was launching an inquiry into possible collusion between Cheasapeake and Encana Corp....
...Shell has teamed up with China National Petroleum Corporation, the Korea Gas Corporation, and Mitsubishi of Japan to explore a possible gas export project, which could use Shell’s revolutionary floating...
...Big Asian investors in shale gas include PetroChina, which paid $5.4bn last year for a 50 per cent stake in a project owned by Canada’s Encana, and India’s Reliance Industries, run by Mukesh Ambani, which...
...Other recent deals have been done by CIC, the Chinese sovereign wealth fund, which spent $2.3bn on stakes in two projects, and KNOC, South Korea’s national oil corporation, which paid $1.7bn in 2009 for...
...Already this year, PetroChina has paid $5.4bn for a 50 per cent stake in a Canadian shale gas project owned by EnCana, the energy group....
...Although it is not known whether the BC bomber is a landowner, the violence is in response to a scramble by energy corporations to tap vast pools of gas and oil in Canada’s last frontier....
...StatoilHydro’s focus on the Gulf of Mexico dates back to 2005, when it bought Encana’s deep water portfolio, making the Gulf a core area for the Norwegian company....
...EnCana’s decision last week not to split itself in two has turned the energy sector’s focus on Marathon Oil, which said in July that it would also consider a split....
...Among these were the sale of Paladin Resources in December 2005, EnCana’s exit from Ecuador last year, and the $2.3bn sales of deepwater Nigerian assets by South Atlantic Petroleum....
...The Anglo-Dutch oil and gas group has also been linked with Encana of Canda....
...The Anglo-Dutch oil and gas group has been linked with Canada’s Encana as well as with the UK’s BG Group ....
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