France is considering nationalizing an aluminium plant owned by Anglo Australian mining group Rio Tinto. The potential move is being studied by officials working for Arnaud Montebourg, the Industrial Recovery minister, just 10 days after ...
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RIA Novosti reported that Russian British oil JV TNK-BP has won a tender to buy one of Russia’s last three major unexploited Soviet era oilfields in a deal likely to benefit oil giant Rosneft. The Federal Subsoil Agency said that ...
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When the Chinese energy giant Hanergy decided last week to buy Miasole,a Silicon Valley-based thin-film solar company,at less than a tenth the amount venture capitalists had invested in the firm,it could have been making a savvy move.Though ...
Reuters reported that Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery Company will shut most of the units at its 400,000 barrel per day Yanbu refinery in March to bring a new cleaner fuel project online. Traders said that the outage planned by the joint ...
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Gulf News reported that the UAE’s state run energy giant Abu Dhabi National Oil Company will lease oil storage facilities in South Korea capable of storing six million barrels of crude for three years. Korea National Oil ...
US multinational energy firm Chevron has revealed that it was hit by the Stuxnet virus,widely believed to have been launched by the US and Israel to spy on and disrupt Iran's nuclear facilities. Stuxnet was designed to target only the ...
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Telvent,a Canadian energy firm whose systems are used to control more than half of all oil and gas pipelines in North America and Latin America,today confirmed a security breach involving the project files of some of its customers. In a ...
PV puts utilities and construction ‘on collision course’ 16 Aug 2012 Achieving widespread grid parity with solar electricity may set up a titanic clash between the two industry sectors. PV panel The falling cost of ...
BP has outsourced finance and accounting (F&A) services to Accenture in a deal that will see the energy giant standardise processes and harness analytics. Accenture will work alongside BP's in-house and captive centres. The value of ...
Timber buyers and traders are being urged to prepare now for the European Timber Regulation (EUTR) in a bid to avoid potential criminal charges. Related articles Protestors pledge to fight energy giant nuclear power plans. The warning from ...
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