Fortis group buys carbon rights
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The Fortis financial group pays 13m euros at a pioneer auction for the rights to emit 800,000 tonnes of CO2.
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Private investment firm Colony Capital  LLC has agreed to pay 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion) for  Libya&#39;s European oil company Tamoil and Oilinvest.
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The Perrigo Company, the world's largest maker of store-branded over-the-counter drugs, reached an agreement to buy Agis Industries, a developer and manufacturer of prescription generic drugs.
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Noble Energy has agreed to buy Patina Oil &amp; Gas in a $3.4bn deal that will mark its expansion in the gas-rich Rocky Mountains region.
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AES Corp., a worldwide power company based in Arlington, said yesterday that it has agreed to purchase a large wind power company as a way to meet growing demand for renewable energy.
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- Station Casinos Inc.  said it agreed to be acquired by privately held Fertitta Colony Partners LLC for $90 per share, or $5.4 billion in cash.
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While global warming is nothing to laugh at, an Australian company is providing some comic relief, selling carbon credits for flatulent pets and people.
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France's Geophysique agrees to buy Veritas DGC, turning it into the world's biggest provider of oil search services.
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A scheme to help firms measure their products' total carbon emissions has been launched by the Carbon Trust.
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Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts &amp; Co., the world&#39;s biggest buyout firm, agreed to buy Canadian building- products maker Masonite International Corp.
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Soft drink giant Coca-Cola spends makes its largest ever acquisition as it buys a health drink firm for $4.1bn.
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By Rachel Melcer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch  Feb. 13--Sigma-Aldrich Corp. said Monday that it paid $60 million in cash  to buy Epichem Group Ltd., a British company that makes chemicals for the  semiconductor and solar panel industries.
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US buyout specialist Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is buying Masonite International (MHM.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) (MHM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , a Canadian-based maker of building products, in an all-cash deal worth C$3.1
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The private equity firm Colony Capital agreed to acquire control of Tamoil of Libya for 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion). The Libyan government will retain 35 percent of the company, which operates refineries and gas stations, Colony said. Tamoil, based in Switzerland and owned by the Libyan government under the name Oilinvest B.V., owns three refineries â in Germany, Italy and Switzerland â and 2,500 gas stations in Italy.
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - Private investment firm Colony Capital LLC has agreed to buy a controlling stake in Libyan state-owned Tamoil in a deal that valued the Italy-based refiner at 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion) -- double earlier estimates.
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French energy services group Compagnie   Generale de Geophysique (CGG) GEPH.PA is to buy Texas-based   Veritas DGC Inc. in a $3.1 billion deal that will make it the   world's biggest listed provider of seismic surveys.
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PITTSBURGH NOVA Chemicals Corporation has reached an agreement to sell its interest in Alberta Ethane Gathering System to Fort Chicago Energy Partners LLP.