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Oil & Gas Royal Dutch Shell is selling almost a third of its stake in Woodside Petroleum, the Australian energy group, for $3.34bn ([pounds sterling]2.06bn) as the Anglo-Dutch oil major [...]

oil & gas Reliance Industries is in talks to acquire what would be its second US shale gas interest in as many months as India's largest private sector oil refining [...]

oil & gas ONGC explores idea of partnership Subject on agenda during Putin visit India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp is in talks with Gazprom and Rosneft over taking equity [...]

Non-core assets will be shed to pay for growth Bids invited for mature North Sea oil fields Royal Dutch Shell, the oil and gas group, is selling assets including its [...]

OIL & GAS Japan group snaps up Marcellus stake Investment of up to $4bn planned Anadarko Petroleum has agreed a $1.4bn deal with Mitsui & Co, the Japanese trading and [...]

Ghana's national oil company is talking with at least three foreign companies, including BP, who have expressed interest in a stake in the country's offshore Jubilee field. The talks are [...]

GdF Suez has joined a growing list of global energy groups seeking a foothold in Australia's natural gas industry after striking a deal to develop one of the world's first [...]

Support services Anticipated falls in capital spending by mining and oil and gas companies have yet to dent order books substantially, three of Britain's leading suppliers to the sectors told [...]

oil & Gas State-run group outbids TNK-BP Bid of 500p set to garner 16% Gazprom Neft, Russia's state-controlled oil major, has built a stake in Sibir Energy, the Aim-listed Russian [...]

small caps Regal Petroleum , the oil and gas company focused on Ukraine, moved up 7.1 per cent to 451/4p yesterday. The rise came after Mirabaud reiterated its 'buy' recommendation [...]

oil & Gas BG Group has moved a step closer to acquiring Pure Energy Resources, the Australian coal seam gas explorer, by winning approval for its A$1bn (US$640m) takeover offer [...]

Ship laden with 2m barrels of oil Somalis believed to be behind attack Pirates operating off the coast of east Africa have hijacked a Saudi supertanker fully laden with an [...]

Largest vessel ever hijacked Somalians believed to be behind attack Pirates operating off the coast of east Africa have hijacked a Saudi supertanker fully laden with an estimated 2m barrels [...]

MINING Group spends $10m on exotic explorer Anglo American has spent $10m ([pounds sterling]6.2m) to double its stake in Nautilus Minerals, a pioneer in undersea mining, providing a glimmer of [...]

RUSSIA Miriam Elder on how some are feeling the pinch of over-dependency As Russia hurtled through one of its most tumultuous summers on record, it was the second week in [...]

OIL & GAS BG Group, the British oil and gas company, is in late-stage negotiations to secure a 24.9 per cent stake in Queensland Gas Company in a deal that [...]

BG Group, the British oil and gas company, is in late-stage talks to secure a 24.9 per cent stake in Queensland Gas Company in a deal that would trigger a [...]

OIL & GAS Gazprom threatens to pull out of deal Agreement was seen as important for BP Gazprom, the state-controlled Russian gas group, is threatening to pull out of a [...]

Group demanded role in services Moscow signals wish to repair links Gazprom, Russia's gas monopoly, yesterday drop-ped long-standing demands for stakes in Germany's energy infrastructure, in a sign that Moscow [...]

BP has made another sizeable investment in 'unconventional' US gas reserves, spending $1.9bn to take a 25 per cent stake in fields owned by Chesapeake Energy in Arkansas. The fields [...]

There are two ways for the west's oilmen to exit Russia. The Robert Dudley route: by the backdoor, pursued by bear, for an exile's existence 'Somewhere in Central Europe'. Or [...]

What goes round, comes round. BP made Dollars 1bn investing in the privatisation of China's oil and gas industry. Now China, cash-rich but resource-light, has spent Pounds 1bn accumulating a [...]

Venture Production could make an acquisition worth Pounds 500m as its chief executive said he was 'pretty confident' there would be more deals to announce this year. Mike Wagstaff held [...]

Melrose Resources, the oil and gas company active in Egypt, Bulgaria and the US, made a Dollars 63.2m (Pounds 31.2m) loss last year, after taking a write-off of Dollars 60.9m [...]

Investment in oil and gas in the UK sector of the North Sea fell sharply last year, in spite of record oil prices, showing the problems of one of the [...]

Investment in oil and gas in the North Sea fell sharply last year, in spite of record oil prices, as the industry found it increasingly difficult to extract Britain's remaining [...]

Investment in oil and gas in the UK sector of the North Sea fell sharply last year, in spite of record oil prices, showing the problems of one of the [...]

Abdallah Jum'ah President and chief executive officer, Saudi Aramco If there is one man on whom the future of global prosperity rests, it is Abdallah Jum'ah. As chief executive of [...]

Gasunie, the Dutch natural gas company, has taken a 9 per cent stake in the Nord Stream pipeline project, amid growing questions over whether the contentious scheme will go ahead [...]

Gasunie, the Dutch natural gas company, has taken a 9 per cent stake in the controversial Nord Stream pipeline project, amid growing questions over whether the controversial scheme will go [...]

Gasunie, the Dutch natural gas company, has taken a 9 per cent stake in the controversial Nord Stream pipeline project, amid growing questions over whether the controversial scheme will go [...]

Gasunie, the Dutch natural gas company, has taken a 9 per cent stake in the Nord Stream pipeline project, amid growing questions over whether the contentious scheme will go ahead [...]

Nicolas Sarkozy, French president, said on his first visit to Moscow yesterday that French investors wanted to take a stake in Gazprom, the Russian natural gas giant, to strengthen energy [...]

Nicolas Sarkozy, French president, said on his first visit to Moscow yesterday that French investors wanted to take a stake in Gazprom, the Russian natural gas giant, to strengthen energy [...]

Nicolas Sarkozy, French president, said on his first visit to Moscow yesterday that French investors wanted to take a stake in Gazprom, the Russian natural gas giant, to strengthen energy [...]

Tullow Oil is acceleratingits drilling programme in Ghana to exploit a significant discovery as it shifts capital spending away from the North Sea towards more promising African ventures. As a [...]

Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly, yesterday pledged to press ahead with downstream investments in the European Union in spite of uncertainty generated by worsening relations between Moscow and Brussels. Alexander [...]

PARIS and MADRID -- Suez, the French utility, is seeking to strengthen its hand ahead of the next stage of consolidation in Europe's energy market by raising its stake in [...]

WASHINGTON, LONDON, BRUSSELS and FRANKFURT -- The Bush administration said yesterday it had warned foreign energy companies that they risked incurring US sanctions if they invested in Iran. The warning [...]

The sale under duress of half its stake in Sakhalin-2, the Dollars 22bn (Pounds 11bn) oil and liquefied natural gas project off the far-east coast of Russia, is expected to [...]

The Bush administration's relationship with the Kremlin has chilled considerably since the moment in 2001 when the US president famously looked into the soul of his Russian counterpart and declared [...]

LONDON -- Cairn Energy, the UK oil group, has sold 10 per cent of its Indian business to Petronas of Malaysia at a higher-than-expected price, raising the value of a [...]

* An article about Pakistan's Oil and Gas Development Company on October 12 gave a capital expenditure figure for the financial year to June 2007 of Dollars 1.07bn. The company [...]

BUDAPEST -- A Russian businessman with long ties to energy giant Gazprom has purchased a 5.2 per cent stake in OTP Bank, Hungary's largest financial group, sparking rumours of a [...]

MOSCOW -- Rosneft is a potentially attractive investment for foreign oil groups since it is one of the few ways of increasing exposure to Russia's lucrative energy market, writes Neil [...]

Bowleven, the Aim-listed oil and gas company, has sold a 13 per cent stake in itself to Suntera Resources of Russia. The buyer is a joint venture between Itera Oil [...]

Petronas, Malaysia's state oil company, and China National Petroleum Corp are planning to invest up to Dollars 2bn (Pounds 1.1bn) each in Rosneft as the Russian oil giant seeks support [...]

LONDON -- Petronas, Malaysia's state oil company, and China National Petroleum Corp are planningto invest up to Dollars 2bn each in Rosneft as the Russian oil giant seeks support for [...]

Gazprom, the Russian state-controlled gas monopoly, yesterday extended its reach over the country's independent producers with an agreement to buy 19.9 per cent of Novatek, Russia's largest independent gas producer [...]

Talks between Eon and Gazprom over the German group's stake in a new Siberia gas field would last another three months, according to Wulf Bernotat. Eon's chief executive said negotiations, [...]