UPDATE 3-Valero LP to acquire Kaneb Services, Pipe Line
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Valero LP (VLI.N: Quote, Profile, Research) will buy Kaneb Services LLC (KSL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Kaneb Pipe Line Partners LP (KPP.
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Oil and gas pipeline operator Kinder  Morgan, Inc.  said on Monday it had signed an agreement  to be bought by an investor group that includes Chief Executive  Richard Kinder for $107.50 per share, or $15 billion, in cash.
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Energy transport company buys Kaneb Services and Kaneb Pipe Line as it also lifts dividend. NEW YORK  - Valero LP, an owner and operator of energy pipeline and storage facilities, agreed to buy Kaneb
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Hewlett-Packard has agreed to acquire IT services company Knightsbridge Solutions Holding for an undisclosed sum.
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Private equity firm Fortress  Investment Group LLC has agreed to buy oil tank operator  Stelmar Shipping Ltd. SJH.N for $677 million, Stelmar said on  Monday.
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Rio Tinto Group agreed yesterday to buy Alcan Inc. for $38.1 billion in cash, overwhelming a hostile bid by Alcoa Inc. to form the world's biggest aluminum maker.
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Oil companies BP Plc , Chevron Corp. , Total  and Statoil  have agreed to sign a deal on Monday with Venezuela for the state takeover of a majority stake in multibillion dollar oil projects, a government source told Reuters on Monday.
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Tokyo, June 20 (Jiji Press)--Toyo Engineering Corp.  said Wednesday it has received a 150-billion-yen order from Petroquimica de Venezuela S.A., known as PEQUIVEN, for the construction of a fertilizer plant in Venezuela, jointly with two other plant engineering firms.
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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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Hewlett-Packard on Monday agreed to acquire a Middle East systems integrator with the aim to expand its services presence in the region.The acquisition of Atos Origin Middle East, in Manama, Bahrain, will boost HP&#39;s services presence in the region&#39;s public sector and oil and gas segments, an HP spokeswoman said. It also enhances HP&#39;s services capabilities in the consulting and integration of SAP projects in the Middle East.Since AOME is privately held, financial information hasn&#39;t been released, the HP spokeswoman said. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of November.AOME is not related to Atos Origin, another systems integration company based in France, the HP spokeswoman said.AOME has 450 employees with a presence in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Libya, and Qatar. The employees will be integrated into HP&#39;s Middle East and Africa subregion services business, said Anette Nachbar, an HP spokeswoman, in an e-mail statement.With the acquisition, HP will get access to a large AOME customer base that includes oil giant Saudi Arabian Oil and telecom giant Saudi Telecom, Nachbar said. Services offered by AOME include enterprise resource planning, business intelligence, enterprise content management, and supply chain management.The acquisition will also boost HP&#39;s ability to offer consistent customer experience for SAP installations worldwide, Nachbar said.&quot;SAP-related services are a core element of HP Services&#39; consulting and integration capabilities and growth strategy, and we are focused on growing that business,&quot; Nachbar said.HP and SAP already have a deep relationship at business, research and development, and engineering levels dating back 18 years. Earlier this year HP announced services for large customers moving to new installations supporting SAP&#39;s Enterprise SOA approach to IT.
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ABB, the Swiss engineering company, will sell an oil and gas production plant, Lummus Global, to the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company for $950 million, ABB said. The buyout, subject to approval by regulators and Chicago Bridge shareholders, is expected to close in the fourth quarter, ABB said. ABBâs chief executive, Fred Kindle, said the sale was the final step in his companyâs strategy to focus on power and automation technology. Lummus Global provides proprietary process technologies, project management, engineering and procurement services to the oil and gas industry. It has 2,400 employees and reported sales of $988 million last year. Chicago Bridge is based in the Netherlands.
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Enbridge Inc. (ENB) will buy Shell&#39;s Gulf of Mexico natural gas pipelines for $613 million in a move that will make it a major transporter in the huge gas-producing area, Canada&#39;s No.
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SHANGHAI, China -- Alcoa Inc. and Aluminum Corp. of China jointly acquired 12 percent of the shares of global mining company Rio Tinto PLC in a deal believed to be worth $14.05 billion, the companies said Friday.
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OAO Rosneft, Russia&#39;s state-owned oil company, bought the winning bidder for the confiscated unit of OAO Yukos Oil Co., Russia&#39;s largest petroleum exporter, Interfax reported, citing an unnamed Rosneft official.
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Spanish banking giant Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) said in a filing with securities regulators Tuesday it was acquiring US-based Laredo National Bancshares (LNB) for $850 million.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- DaVita (DVA) said it has an agreement to buy Gambro Healthcare, the dialysis division of Sweden&#39;s Gambro (SE:000016447) for $3.05 billion in cash.
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Transocean Inc. , the world's largest offshore driller, said on Monday it would buy smaller rival GlobalSantaFe Corp. , creating a $53 billion company with a presence in ultra-deepwater and deepwater drilling and additional growth from new rigs.