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Riversdale Mining has confirmed that it has held takeover discussions with Rio Tinto.
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Riversdale Mining has confirmed that it has held takeover discussions with Rio Tinto.

FLSmidth has made an offer to acquire ESSA Australia Ltd, corresponding to an enterprise value of DKK 170 million.

Fraser Bomford, AKE, examines the risks of living and working in Pakistan, especially for foreign expatriates who have become a target in recent years.

Walter Energy will acquire Western Coal Corp. for C$ 3.3 billion (US$ 3.3 billion) to create a leading, publicly traded, pure-play met coal producer with total coal reserves of approximately 385 million t and a significant and growing production profile in Canada, the US and the UK.

Desire Petroleum has tentatively announced the discovery of oil in the Rachel North well.

Aker Solutions has been awarded the Åsgard subsea compression system contract by Statoil. The contract value is approximately NOK 3.4 billion.

API comments on the recent US tax recommendations.

Grain LNG, owned by National Grid Plc, has completed a capacity expansion plan worth £310 million. The terminal can now handle 20% of the UK’s annual gas demand.

In the last year a number of territorial disputes, which had been quietly ignored before the financial crisis, have come back to prominence; the disputes have been further exacerbated by the presence of oil in some instances.

Icthys LNG project, which is owned by INPEX Browse and Total, has released the invitations to tender for the project's gas processing facility on Blaydin Point, Darwin, Australia.

Minnesota Power has ordered 15 turbines from Siemens for its Bison 1 wind farm in North Dakota.

The African Continent’s west coast has long been an oil rich haven for oil companies from the west to exploit, yet now with the continual discoveries of oil rich deposits in the east, companies are turning their attention to countries like Uganda, Tanzania and Mozambique to source large quantities of Africa’s oil reserve.