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...In February, the SFO announced Nigeria would be paid just over £200,000 out of a settlement it had agreed with engineering company Amec Foster Wheeler, to pay the country back for tax revenue it was deprived...
...agent of Amec Foster Wheeler Energy Limited....
...The privately held British engineering group has bet its future on breaking into one of the world’s most competitive markets, pitting the entrepreneur against corporations like Volkswagen, Toyota and...
...Until recently, speculation had swirled that SNC-Lavalin would launch a counterbid for Amec Foster Wheeler, which last month agreed to be acquired by Scotland’s John Wood Group....
...John Wood Group agreed a £2.2bn deal for engineering services company Amec Foster Wheeler last month, while SNC-Lavalin acquired UK-listed Kentz Corporation, the oil and gas services specialist, for £1.16bn...
...It not only maximises the value the firm provides, but also fosters innovation within....
...The collapse of Amec’s approach for Kentz in September led to its spurned suitor launching an agreed $3.2bn cash-and-shares offer for US rival Foster Wheeler in January as part of a wave of continuing consolidation...
...In January Amec, the UK oil services group, agreed a $3.2bn takeover of Swiss peer Foster Wheeler. In August Canadian SNC-Lavalin completed a $2bn takeover of London-listed Kentz Corporation....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...An apt time to reboot Energy Flash: a new chapter covers the rise of EDM and dubstep....
...So, international companies based in Scotland – including blue-chips such as Standard Life, the insurer, and Cairn Energy, the oil and gas group – received a shock last week when the Scottish National party...
...Carnival Corporation dropped by the most in seven months on Wednesday as fears of an oil shock dragged the FTSE 100 sharply lower....
...Cairn Energy rose 2.3 per cent to 436½p after releasing promising, but largely inconclusive, interim drill results from its second well in Greenland, which confirmed gas and two types of oil but gave no...
...The EN-V is essentially a glorified version of the two-wheelers popular around Asia, with a passenger cabin added to allow for climate control, welcome in the continent’s often-muggy climes....
...Salamander Energy was up 5.7 per cent to 207p after Goldman Sachs raised forecasts and maintained a “buy” rating before the group’s results next week....
...We want growth without cycles of boom and bust and markets that foster responsibility not recklessness. 12. Today we agreed: 13....
...The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle By Sara Wheeler Jonathan Cape, £20 Sara Wheeler is the literary maestro of the earth’s frozen regions....
...It is a period of significant technology change for the corporation....
...Ian McCartney, the former trade minister, recently accepted an advisory post worth up to £115,000 a year with Fluor Corporation, the US company that is part of a consortium with Toshiba bidding for the Sellafield...
...British Energy was also in demand, rising 2 per cent to 495p after Morgan Stanley upgraded it to “equal-weight” and advised clients to switch out of Drax Group, up 0.1 per cent to 627½p....
...Burren Energy was under pressure yesterday after the sudden death of the Saparmurat Niyazov, the hard-line president-for-life of Turkmenistan....
...The industry is still in its infancy in the UK, with Biofuels Corporation and D1 Oils - former merger partners - the main pure play stocks....
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