
SOUTH AFRICA – Mahanyele Shanduka is the CEO of the Shanduka Group, founded in 2004. She was previously head of the Project Finance South Africa business unit at the Development Bank of Southern Africa. Prior to that she was Vice President at Fieldstone, an international firm specialising in the financing of infrastructure assets. The organisation owns the controlling [...]
Mar 3 2013 | Posted in
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FINDLAY, Ohio - Marathon Petroleum Corporationis the nation’s fourth-largest refiner, with a crude oil refining capacity of approximately 1.7 million barrels per calendar day in its seven-refinery system. Marathon brand gasoline is sold through approximately 5,000 independently owned retail outlets across 17 states. In addition, Speedway LLC, an MPC subsidiary, owns and operates the nation’s fourth-largest [...]
Feb 3 2013 | Posted in
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VANCOUVER - Anglo American is one of the world’s largest mining companies and is a global leader in both platinum and diamonds. Anglo American is Australia’s second largest metallurgical coal producer and third largest global exporter of metallurgical coal. The company’s mining operations, extensive pipeline of growth projects and exploration activities span southern Africa, South America, Australia, North America, Asia and Europe. The [...]
Dec 15 2012 | Posted in
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MOSCOW - Rosneft is the leader of Russia’s petroleum industry, and ranks among the world’s top publicly traded oil and gas companies. The Russian oil major has signed a contract to supply gas to Russia’s electricity provider INTER RAO from 2016. Reports estimate the price of the deal at about $80.6bn. Under the contract, the supply of up [...]

TORONTO — The Honourable Joe Oliver, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, joined by Dr. Uzi Landau, Israeli Minister of Energy and Water Resources, will make an announcement regarding energy collaboration on October 29th. Lawrence Toet, Member of Parliament for Elmwood-Transcona, on behalf of the Honourable Joe Oliver, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, announced the Harper [...]
Oct 29 2012 | Posted in
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BP has signed the deal to sell its 50% stake in TNK-BP to Russian oil giant Rosneft. This can make the Russian state-owned enterprise the world’s biggest listed oil company. Also, BP expects to have two seats on Rosneft’s nine person board. The deal is due to be completed by the first half of 2013. “This [...]
Oct 25 2012 | Posted in
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VICTORIA/CALGARY – Thousands of people gathered today on the B.C. legislature lawn to protest two proposed pipelines carrying oil across B.C. from Alberta. The Northern Gateway protests have been endorsed by unions such as the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, the Canadian Auto Workers, the B.C. Teacher’s Federation, the Canadian Union of Public Employees and the United [...]
Oct 23 2012 | Posted in
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FINDLAY, Ohio, Oct. 8, 2012 - Marathon Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: MPC) announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase BP’s 451,000 barrel per calendar day (475,000 barrel per stream day) Texas City refinery, three intrastate NGL pipelines originating at the refinery, an allocation of BP’s Colonial Pipeline Company shipper history, four terminals, retail marketing contract [...]
Oct 9 2012 | Posted in
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MOSCOW – Rosneft is the leader of Russia’s petroleum industry and ranks among the world’s top publicly traded oil and gas companies. Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil company plans to invest $36 billion in the development of Venezuelan oil in the coming 40 years, according to Igor Sechin, the company’s president. The Company is primarily engaged in [...]
Sep 30 2012 | Posted in
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DETROIT — DTE Energy competes in other markets outside of Michigan but opposes competition in Michigan to the detriment of DETROIT residents, the MICHIGAN economy and Lawmakers need to take a close look. DTE Energy is a giant that needs to be broken up in Michigan via competition! DTE Energy competitively-supplies electric power and energy in Ohio to residential [...]
Sep 27 2012 | Posted in
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