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...I’m not sure I’ll need it. After several days in my all-natural running kit, none of my garments needed washing....
...“I think about it in terms of how much it’s worth to know that the capital I’m deploying is doing some good in the world,” he says....
...“I’m great, my love,” she reassures in her deep voice with a slight Dorset twang. “I’ve been working.” She slaps her hands against her apron and a cloud of dust rises into the air....
...SELL: Petrofac (PFC) The oil and gas contractor is set to tap investors for $275m and also plans a $500m bond issue, writes Michael Fahy....
...As PFC Energy chair Robin West points out, their mismanagement will eventually cut global supply....
...Such a cheap rating helps to explain why Prudential parted company with its slower-growing M&G business last year....
...Tony’s so charming, I can only think how conscious that would be for an artist to say, ‘I’m going to be gracious and kind and I’m going to show beauty.’ ” If Vaccaro’s work is distinctive, it is for his...
...“As far as I’m concerned the end is nigh for oil.”...
...I'm delighted to be joined by Rupert Harrison, portfolio manager at BlackRock and a former chief of staff to George Osborne, plus Torsten Bell, who's head of The Resolution Foundation and PFC director of...
...And despite the recent flurry of M&A in exploration, in the international arena the NOCs are still small....
...Located 550km off the coast of north west Russia, Shtokman has 3.9tn cu m of gas reserves and is one of the world’s biggest undeveloped gas fields....
...“I’m sceptical that Libya will return to its pre-war output until 2013 or well beyond,” says Ben Cahill, an expert on Libya at oil consultants PFC Energy in Washington, echoing a widely held industry’s view...
...“This is getting at a resource not currently booked and often overlooked,” said Raoul LeBlanc, senior director at PFC Energy, the consultancy....
...Julia Nanay, of PFC Energy in Washington, said such moves had “become an important strategic priority for Russia”....
...Raoul LeBlanc, senior director at PFC Energy, the consultancy, said that investors have revised down next year’s projected prices from $6-$7 per mBtu to $4-$5 per mBtu....
...Thomas Shirley, professor of life sciences at Texas A&M University, warned that the report that three quarters of the oil was gone was “largely an estimate”....
...However, she does not want to leave her and her husband’s apartment to stay with her family in the far north island of Hokkaido. ”I’m just going to stay here,” she said....
...“The main driver for such M&A activity lies in the cash strength of probable acquirers – super-majors, Asian national oil companies and large independents,” says Jim Dillavou, a partner leading energy M&...
...Exxon’s portfolio is based on very large, efficient, long-life assets, says Robin West, chairman of PFC Energy, the consultancy....
...Ben Dell, senior analyst at Bernstein Research, said it was now materially cheaper to buy than to explore: “It appears the energy space is on the cusp of an M&A boom.’’...
...Industry consultants at PFC Energy in Washington, DC, believe that developing supplies trapped in shale deposits could more than quadruple the world’s known gas reserves....
...Yet Robin West, chairman of PFC Energy, says, “The intrusion of oil exploration and production [in the US] – the footprint – is quite modest....
...“I’m sure all of them are struggling at the moment considering which avenue to take to growth.'”...
...The prices paid for oil and gas assets in M&A deals were broadly unchanged last year....
...Peter M....
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