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...He spent hundreds of millions of dollars on Bigelow Aerospace, launching two spacecraft with Russian partners, and investigated claims of UFOs for a once-secret Pentagon programme....
...Last year a rancher was sentenced to 11 years in prison after he racked up more than $200mn in futures-trading losses and tried to cover his margin calls by invoicing a business partner for $233mn of “phantom...
...Wood, one of Wall Street’s best known investors, is known for her punchy bets on fast-growing companies in sectors from robotics to space exploration....
...Pierre Festal, partner at early stage investor Promus Ventures, says he is also seeing a vibrant start-up universe. “It’s really a reflection of the maturity of the ecosystem,” he says....
...But Nasa and its partners are not the only ones trying to pave those roads. China has its own ambitions to build a permanent base on the Moon....
...Repsol will sell a 25 per cent stake in its exploration and production business to US investment group EIG for $4.8bn as Spain’s biggest oil company seeks to raise funds for renewables investments to pivot...
...Jeff Bezos’s space exploration company Blue Origin has announced plans to launch a commercial space station into low-earth orbit in the latter half of this decade....
...bankrupt thousands of ranching families throughout the country” and telling them: “Ranchers cannot allow these threats to become a reality.”...
...The decision represents another blow to Bezos’s ambitions to create a significant space exploration company....
...“The boom in fracking was largely financed by debt,” said Mohsin Meghji, head of M-III Partners, a restructuring adviser working with some bankrupt shale producers....
...Kimmeridge Energy has hired Mark Viviano as head of public equities to lead a new investment strategy focused on equity underperformance in public exploration and production....
...Rules of that kind can quickly turn the excitement of buying a ranch into a Kafkaesque exploration of state property rules, regulations and practices....
...Guggenheim Partners, the second largest shareholder in the oil exploration and production company, has said it will vote against the company’s proposed acquisition of Bonanza Creek, joining Carl Icahn in...
...“It’s kind of like space exploration. We’re going to send people to the moon.”...
...As well as its interests in Argentina, PAE also operates the Hokchi exploration block in the Mexican part of the Gulf of Mexico....
...Mr Inglis said Kosmos would stick to its strategy of investing in exploration and bringing in partners when oil and gas is found....
...Genel also has two “significant” gasfields and, in Turkey, a willing buyer of supply — if it can find a development partner....
...With the US space administration Nasa, one of the ISS’s main backers, switching its attentions — and budget — to exploration farther afield, low earth orbit will soon be “ceded to commercial”, says Amir...
...“Too little, too late,” said Jacob Grapengiesser, partner at East Capital, one of the top funds specialising in the former Soviet Union and a KMG EP shareholder....
...• Guinness Asset Management has hired two senior energy analysts ahead of the launch of an oil and gas exploration fund....
...Among the laggards were oil exploration and production companies. EOG Resources, one of the biggest participants in the shale industry, dropped 2 per cent to $75.78....
...Harbour Energy is a joint venture between private equity company EIG Global Energy Partners LLC and Noble Group, Asia’s largest commodity trader by volume, which competes with Trafigura for so-called offtake...
...“Therefore, we have begun discussions with the Ukrainian government and our partner Nadra Yuzivska LLC on the way forward with the PSA, pursuant to its terms.”...
...Harbour Energy was formed in 2014 as a joint venture between Hong Kong commodity trader Noble Group and US buyout group EIG Global Energy Partners....
...Last week, though, the company announced it had agreed a $500m investment from GSO Capital Partners, the credit unit of Blackstone, the private equity group....
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