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...They also won contracts worth at least $1.5bn to trade the oil and gas that Kazakhstan’s pipelines carry....
...Markets Senior energy correspondent Anjli Raval reflects on the new reality facing Big Oil after a period of unprecedented shocks....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...The oil company had sent a delegation to Nebraska for a secret meeting with Warren Buffett, hoping to persuade Berkshire Hathaway’s chairman to come to their rescue in their battle for Anadarko....
...weekend to replace its veteran oil minister, and whether that might mean the kingdom takes a harder stance in potential negotiations with other major oil producers....
...I also want to take this moment to thank another great public servant, Sir Nicholas Macpherson....
...However, the prices of many commodities that are crucial for consumer goods companies, such as crude oil and grains, remain stubbornly high....
...guide the company’s new chief Paal Kibsgaard as he settles in at the helm....
...Dubai will hope it can welcome more bankers like V. Shankar....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...But many companies across the oil and gas industry focus more attention on production growth than capital or compensation discipline....
...And so this bank holding company act is protecting the banking system....
...That view was adopted in the 1980 case of Diamond v. Chahkabarty, which said that the patent laws protected “anything under the sun that is made by man,” including an oil-eating microorganism....
...Most oil and gas now comes from outside the developed world....
...“We expect revenue conditions to deteriorate after the summer, and believe the company’s balance sheet would come under strain if oil was $150 per barrel or higher,” said the broker, which had previously...
...Part of a wider downgrade on the European oil and gas sector, SG said a sharp rise in oil companies’ share prices this year left little upside, particularly given recent negative momentum on crude....
...The abundance of cash resulting from booming oil prices has created a new wave of Arab investors in European assets, willing to bid for anything from high-end London real estate to Parisian wax museums....
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