Japan Osaka Gas to buy LNG from Russia's Sakhalin
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Osaka Gas Co. (9532.T), Japan's second  largest natural gas distributor, said on Friday it has agreed  to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Sakhalin-2 project  in Russia's far east.
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Royal Dutch Shell  CEO Jeroen van der Veer met Gazprom  chief Alexei Miller on Friday in Moscow to discuss admitting the Russian gas monopoly to the Sakhalin-2 project, a Gazprom official said.
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Japan Tobacco Inc. confirmed on Friday it  was in talks to buy smaller rival Gallaher Group Plc, in a 7.5  billion pound ($14.7 billion) deal that would extend its  overseas expansion.
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Despite rocky political relations, Japan needs Russia for gas and oil imports as the energy-hungry Asian power tries to ease its dependence on the volatile Middle East, analysts say.
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Reuters reported Thursday that Russian officials confirmed that Houston-based oil giant ConocoPhillips is interested in taking a $2 billion stake in Russian oil major LUKOIL.
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Sempra Energy LNG said Oct. 12 that it signed a 20-year agreement to purchase 3.7 million tons of liquefied natural gas per year from Indonesia for its proposed terminal just south of the US border from BP PLC and its partner Tangguh LNG.
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Russia's Gazprom said on Tuesday it will  bid for embattled oil firm YUKOS' main unit next month, as the  Kremlin seeks to turn the world's biggest gas producer into a  major oil player.
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Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft has bought the mysterious buyer of Yukos&#39; most important production unit, Russian news agencies reported late Wednesday, in a deal that appeared to move the unit one step closer to ownership by state-controlled gas
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MOSCOW  - In a deal paving the way for future joint ventures, U.S. oil giant ConocoPhillips has won an auction with a bid of nearly &#36;2 billion US for the Russian government's 7.6 per cent stake in Russia's Lukoil - the world's No.&#160;2 oil company by reserves.
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MOSCOW, June 22 -- The state-controlled energy giant Gazprom on Friday bought a vast natural gas field in Siberia from a unit of  British-based petroleum conglomerate BP, continuing the Kremlin's policy of shifting control of the country's major energy projects from foreign to state hands.
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The Russian natural gas company Gazprom on Tuesday said it would buy one of the country&#39;s top oil companies, a move that would create a state-owned energy juggernaut.
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Japan Tobacco Inc. confirmed on Friday it  was in talks to buy smaller rival Gallaher Group Plc L> , in a  7.5 billion pound ($14.7 billion) deal that would extend its  overseas expansion.
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An oil company controlled by the Russian government said that it had bought the company that had won Sunday's auction for the largest subsidiary of Yukos.
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Norwegian oil company Statoil said Friday it had set up the biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Europe in the Barents Sea.
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Japan Tobacco Inc. confirmed on Friday it was in talks to buy smaller rival Gallaher Group Plc L> , in a 7.5 billion pound ($14.7 billion) deal that would extend its overseas expansion.
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WARSAW : Poland intends to buy compressed natural gas from Norway until a planned pipeline between the two countries is completed, Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka said.
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MOSCOW - Russia&#39;s Gazprom said on Tuesday it will bid for embattled oil firm Yukos&#39; main unit next month, as the Kremlin seeks to turn the world&#39;s biggest gas producer into a major oil player.