In 2003, Yukos was preparing for a game-changing merger with another private Russian oil company, Roman Abramovich's Sibneft, to create a 2.3 million b/d Russian oil producing giant. The deal was scuppered, however, in large part because ...
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Oil futures closed US trading above Friday's settles Monday, after driving higher shortly ahead of the 2:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT) NYMEX market settle on geopolitical concerns arising out of the escalating conflict in Syria. NYMEX June crude ...
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Chinese oil and gas producer PetroChina Co., Ltd. (SHSE: 601857 and SEHK: 0857) has not made a final decision on whether to participate in an auction Iraq plans to hold for the Nassiriya oil field on December 19 this year. The Iraqi ...
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Saudi Arabian customs officials have foiled an attempt to smuggle 3.255 million kg (equivalent to 27,300 barrels) of refined oil products out of the eastern port of Dammam, capital of the kingdom's oil-rich Eastern Province, the official ...
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Shell's Nigeria unit may be forced to shut down completely its key Nembe Creek oil pipeline in the Niger Delta following repeated attacks on the facility by thieves siphoning crude, the chairman of Shell companies in Nigeria, Mutiu Sunmonu, ...
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The Province of Missan has emerged as a major oil producer in Iraq as more of its oil fields come on stream. Ali Muaarij, the head of Missan Oil Company, said foreign firms are developing these fields and currently the province produces ...
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OPEC Secretary General Abdalla el-Badri said Monday that world oil markets were well balanced and likely to remain well supplied through the current year to meet expected growth in demand, but that the oil producer group did not envisage a ...
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The Australian sharemarket rose to a 20-month high today as investors continued to buy banks, consumer staples, property trusts, healthcare and energy companies, while remaining hesitant on iron ore producers after spot iron ore prices ...
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Iraq and the Russian state oil producer Gazprom Neft have awarded an $879 million contract to South Korea’s Samsung Group to develop the Badra oil field in eastern Iraq. Samsung will design and build phase two of a central ...
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“The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” (Gordon Gecko in “Wall Street” by Oliver Stone) Commodities have experienced a renaissance after the bursting of the internet bubble at the end of the ...
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Russia's crude oil production hit a record high of 518 million mt (10.4 million b/d) in 2012, preliminary data released Wednesday by the energy ministry's Central Dispatching Unit showed, as the country cemented its position as the world's ...
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Reuters reported that Rosneft,seeking to wrap up Russia's largest-ever takeover deal,raised USD 16.8 billion in bank loans and signed long-term supply deals with two leading oil traders that could be worth as much as USD 50 billion. ...
Russia's state-owned Rosneft has signed two loan agreements with a group of international banks for a total of $16.8 billion to finance acquisition of BP's 50% stake in Anglo-Russian TNK-BP, the company said Monday. "Pursuant to these ...
Most Chinese takeovers in the resource sector do not pose a threat to national security, says the author of a new report on Chinese investment in Canada. Theodore Moran, a professor of international business at Georgetown University, says ...
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Commodity trader Glencore has said it wants to be a "true leader" in global grain trading after completing its acquisition of Viterra in a deal worth US$6bn. Glencore said this week its completion of the deal hands it "immediate critical ...
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