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...UK energy company Centrica this week secured an $8bn deal with US group Delfin Midstream to buy 1mn tonnes of LNG a year....
...Our goal is to be kind of the midstream, downstream oil and gas company, in a sense....
...Midstream operators are nervous. Dominion Energy abandoned its Atlantic Coast Pipeline last year after protracted court battles....
...The new management team are heading into the Norwegian hills on Wednesday to flesh out the strategy at a mountain cabin....
...The Mountain Valley Pipeline is the only significant project still in the offing....
...Today, it is the only company in the world operating a fully autonomous commercial taxi service on public roads....
...The utility group later collapsed under a mountain of debt it had taken on as part of the private equity groups’ buyout. Berkshire lost $1bn of the $2.1bn it spent on junk bonds issued by TXU....
...The sheer size of the deal epitomised the hubris of buyout players in the run-up to the financial crisis — and later contributed to the downfall of the utility group, which collapsed under a mountain of...
...Stacey Cunningham, chief operating officer at the New York Stock Exchange, reaches up among a long row of silver pots, pans and ladles hanging from a rack in the industrial kitchen of the exchange’s in-house...
...As investors in Dell’s parent company, holders of the new stock will face the full credit risk stemming from the debt mountain created by the EMC buyout....
...That portion of the business is operating at a small loss, though the intention is to break even....
...Operating earnings at Glencore’s industrial division — dominated by mining — plunged 84 per cent....
...“An entire snow scene complete with pines and ski lift could not conceal the banality of a tartan-meets-sheepskin ‘Rocky Mountain High collection’,” ran the FT verdict on last season’s catwalk show....
...… By Night the Mountain Burns, by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, translated by Jethro Soutar, And Other Stories, RRP£10/$15.95 The volcanic island of Annobón, off the west African coast, provides the setting...
...The all-cash offer from MidAmerican Holdings, a Berkshire subsidiary that provides power in the midwest and Rocky Mountain regions, values NV at $10bn, including debt.”...
...Gas in the Rocky Mountains producing region of the western US sold for as little as $1.73....
...Lion operating system update)....
...The move followed Gannett’s announcement in February that all 80 of its community newspapers will introduce digital subscriptions, in a move the publisher expects to add $100m to operating profit....
...Molycorp, based in Colorado, is seizing the moment and the momentum to rebuild the Mountain Pass mine....
...Though a high price, the figure will make barely a dent in Microsoft’s $38.2bn net cash mountain....
...Primary Global, which is based in Mountain View, California, says on its website it has consultants “focusing on semiconductors, data centres, software, telecommunications or internet”....
...Primary Global, based in Mountain View, California, says on its website it has consultants “focusing on semiconductors, data centres, software, telecommunications or internet.”...
...Bresnan, which is majority owned by Providence Equity Partners, operates in the Rocky Mountain states, areas where it faces little direct competition. Providence bought Bresnan for $525m in 2003....
...The move comes as the emirate seeks to deal with its $109bn debt mountain and regain economic growth after almost two years of recession in the aftermath of the global economic crisis....
...The unit’s operating profit margin was 17 per cent in 2006, but dropped to 11 per cent last year....
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