Statoil says it plans 25 billion kroner (US$4.2 billion, &#x20AC;3.1 billion) contract
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"It's very important to have the system of agreements in place. This gives us shorter lead times and assured deliveries when a project is sanctioned."  OSLO, Norway: State-controlled oil company Statoil ASA on Friday announced its intent to sign a framework contract for offshore systems worth up to as 25 billion kroner with Aker Kvaerner ASA and FMC ... via International Herald Tribune
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Statoil sees soaring earnings as the oil and gas firm pushes ahead with the takeover of Norwegian rival Norsk Hydro.
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BP Plc, Europe&#39;s largest oil company, and its partners in an Indonesian liquefied natural gas venture agreed to sell about $2 billion of the fuel over 20 years to a unit of South Korea&#39;s largest oil refiner.
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Samsung Electronics, the world&#39;s second largest computer chip manufacturer, yesterday said that it would invest Won25,000bn ($24bn) in its semiconductor business by 2010 to generate
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The following story contains the latest information known as of 23:30 CET on Monday, and will be updated as new information comes in.
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HOUSTON -- Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. said yesterday it will spend some of its record profits on more than 20 new global projects in the next three years, investments expected to add 1 million oil-equivalent barrels a day to the company's volumes at peak production.
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KKR & Co. LP , the prominent U.S. buyout firm that pioneered the leveraged buyout industry, filed with regulators on Tuesday to raise up to $1.25 billion in an initial public offering.
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ChevronTexaco reports that its United Kingdom subsidiary and its partners, Statoil, OMV and DONG, have made a significant oil and gas discovery at the offshore Rosebank/Lochnagar well in the Faroe-Shetland ...
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The deal will involve the creation of new mobile phone network with a capacity of 2.5 million phone lines. TRIPOLI: Libya&#39;s state-run post and telecommunications company has signed a 200 million euro ($244
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Private equity firm The Carlyle Group is mulling a bid for the generics business of Germany's Merck KGaA , a unit worth at least 4 billion euros ($5.3 billion), a source close to the process said.
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Crude oil rose after Statoil ASA, Norway&#39;s biggest oil company, said a ``good deal&#39;&#39; of work remains before some 7 percent of the nation&#39;s output can restart.
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Swedish truck and construction equipment group Volvo said that it had landed contracts from the US government worth about 30 million dollars (24.4 million euros) to deliver construction equipment to Iraq.
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The deal will create a global offshore oil giant Energy firms Statoil and Norsk Hydro have unveiled plans to merge their offshore oil and gas operations, creating a global industry giant.Comment
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The Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance Group, a British nonlife insurer, offered 6.4 billion kroner ($1.2 billion) to buy the stock it does not already own in Codan, a nonlife insurer in Denmark. Royal and Sun bid 605 kroner apiece for the shares, a premium of 15 percent over the closing price Wednesday of 525 kroner. Royal and Sun completed the sale of operations in the United States in March to focus on British and Scandinavian businesses and on emerging markets.
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Technip (Paris:TEC) (NYSE:TKP) (ISIN:FR0000131708) has been awarded by  Petrobras a contract worth approximately $200 million for the four-year  charter of its flexible pipe laying vessel Sunrise 2000, operating  offshore Brazil. This contract could be renewed for four years.
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Alla societa' petrolifera francese Total il 25%
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Samsung Electronics plans to invest 25 trillion won ($24 billion) in building new semiconductor production lines by 2010, the company said Monday.