Entries tagged "BP plc"
Could EnCana's resurrected plan to split up the company lead to deal activity in the oil patch?
The next consolidation in the oil industry could involve major Western oil companies and state-owned oil firms, according to BP CEO Tony Hayward.
Investors jittery about their holdings in a rich and increasingly aggressive Russia had two pieces of news to digest on Thursday. ...
They're fabulously wealthy, of course, but also remarkably relentless. Russian oligarchs on Tuesday reminded the world that they can be the most tenacious of deal partners. Vladimir Kim's Kazakhmys plc sought to downplay the prospect of handing control of his empire to Russia' ZAO Metalloinvest after it emerged Monday that Alisher Usmanov's mining and metals giant had made a takeover approach. ...
