Industry Developments
Russia
Russia's state market regulator, the Federal Financial Markets Service (FFMS), has published new rules limiting the sale of shares in strategic and mineral resources companies on...
2008-07-10Italy
Italian major Eni has signed agreements with Russian power producer TGK-9 to sell it 350mn cubic metres (Mcm) of natural gas by 2010.
2008-07-09Austria
In its latest move to fend off unwelcome advances from Austrian suitor OMV, Hungarian group MOL has said it is holding advanced stage talks with Croatia's INA over a share swap...
2008-07-08Argentina
Madrid-based major RepsolYPF is reportedly in talks with Russian oil company Rosneft about acquiring a 25% stake in the Sakhalin-III oil and gas project.
2008-07-08Russia
The head of Ukraine's state-run energy firm Naftogaz Ukrainy has said the company should form a joint venture (JV) with Russian state-owned Gazprom to explore for oil and gas on...
2008-07-07Azerbaijan
The deputy general director of Russia's Gazprom Neft, Boris Zilbermints, has said that his company is looking to acquire shares in Kazakhstan's MangistauMunaiGaz (MMG) alongside...
2008-07-04Georgia
Russia's state-controlled Gazprom may build a pipeline to supply gas to Abkhazia, a breakaway region within neighbouring Georgia, according to Reuters.
2008-06-26Hong Kong
Inflation continues to hover around decade highs in Hong Kong, as surging housing rents and food prices push consumer price growth ever higher. Headline CPI inflation accelerated...
2008-06-24Ukraine
The prospects are looking brighter for UK-based explorer Regal Petroleum, which has substantially reduced its losses in 2007 thanks to increased gas sales from its Ukrainian fields...
2008-06-24Austria
A consortium led by Hungarian integrated oil company MOL has announced the discovered of an oil and gas field in the Federovskoye Block in north-western Kazakhstan.
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