Oil & Gas
Gold Reserve group makes bid for Citgo parent
Gold Reserve's subsidiary Dalinar Energy Corporation submitted a better bid on Wednesday for the parent company of Venezuelan-owned refiner Citgo Petroleum, as part of an auction organized by a U.S. federal court. The mining company announced this in a press release. The deadline to improve the bid of Contrarian Funds affiliate Red Tree Investments for Citgo Holding's parent company PDV Holding was set by a federal judge in Delaware on June 18. This bid, worth $3.7 billion, had been selected earlier in the year as the opening bid. The court wants to reach a settlement to compensate companies for expropriations...