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Disney strikes deal to offer stake in India's Tata Play, Bloomberg Report
Walt Disney has struck a deal to offer its stake in Tata Play, valuing Indian conglomerate Tata Group's satellite television company at about $1. billion, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, mentioning people. familiar with the matter. The stake sale news comes as the U.S.-based media giant. seeks to concentrate on its merger with India's leading conglomerate,. Reliance Industries, in a quote to develop an $8.5. billion entertainment juggernaut far ahead of competitors in the. world's most populated nation. Last month, Tata Sons, the holding business of India's Tata. Group, increased its stake in Tata Play to 70% by buying a 10%. stake from Singapore state financial investment company Temasek for about. $ 100 million, local media had reported. With Temasek's exit, Tata Play runs as a 70:30 joint. venture between Tata and Disney. The change in the ratio of. joint venture shareholding post the stake sale news are not. discussed in the Bloomberg report. Disney and Tata Group did not immediately react to. ' requests for comment. Disney took its stake in Tata Play from the acquisition of. Star India through the purchase of 21st Century Fox's India possessions. in 2017.
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BP stops briefly gas-field talks with Venezuela as license expires
Oil major BP has paused discussions with Venezuela on the advancement of a gas project on the maritime border with Trinidad and Tobago following the expiration of a U.S. license to Venezuela in April, a company representative stated on Wednesday. BP this year carried out settlements with Venezuela and Trinidad to develop the 1 trillion cubic feet (tcf). Manakin-Cocuina field that is shared by both nations. The British energy business plans to resume talks with. Venezuela as soon as it can legally do so, the representative stated. With the expiration of OFAC's basic license # 44 in April. 2024, BP has paused all discussions on the Manakin-Cocuina. development, the company said. BP wants to increase its natural gas production in Trinidad,. where output has actually fallen 45% in the last five years, to 1.2. billion cubic feet per day (bcf/d) from 2.2 bcf/d. It owns a 45% stake in the Atlantic LNG gas-processing plant. which has a capacity to produce 15 million metric loads per year. ( MTPA) of the superchilled gas. But the center has been required. to mothball among its trains and reduce output due to lower. gas production. Trinidad Energy Minister Stuart Young did not immediately. talk about the choice. The Manakin-Cocuina fields were unitized in 2015 however talks. on their advancement were stalled upon imposition of U.S. sanctions in 2019 versus Venezuela. In March, Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA (PDVSA.UL). said on social media it was thinking about releasing a license for. checking out and developing non-associated gas on its side of the. shared field.
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EEX, Nasdaq deal triggers EU issues about bundled items, rate walkings
EU antitrust regulators are looking for feedback on whether the European Energy Exchange (EEX). may broaden its market power by bundling items when it purchases. Nasdaq's European power trading and cleaning business, an individual. with direct understanding of the matter said on Wednesday. The European Commission, which is taking a look at the deal, sent out a. survey to the business' rivals and consumers this month,. asking for replies early today, the person stated. EEX is. Europe's leading electrical energy and gas exchange, serving. 800 individuals. One devoted section in the questionnaire has to do with. conglomerate results, the person stated, referring to the effect. on competitors from the merger of 2 companies in carefully. related however not completing markets. The Commission wishes to understand whether the combined. entity could utilize its strong position in one market to increase. its market position in markets of comparable items, the individual. said. The questionnaire asked if the merged entity might do this. by providing products only as part of bundles for a repaired charge or. making the sale of one product conditional on the sale of. another associated one, the individual said. The Commission, which last year stated the merged company. could have a reward to raise trading fees or get worse. conditions for market individuals, declined to comment. The questionnaire also inquired about the effect of the deal on. prices and the barriers for competitors to enter the marketplace, the. individual stated. EEX and Nasdaq in their reaction to the Commission in 2015. stated the offer postured no considerable danger to competition in. Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway or any other EU nation, that. it would not eliminate competition between the two business,. which market response had been positive.
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United States stocks move sideways, gold topples ahead of Fed minutes, Nvidia results
Wall Street treaded water and gold costs fell on Wednesday as investors parsed blended U.S. retail earnings and weak real estate information, while looking ahead to Nvidia results and the minutes from the U.S. Federal Reserve's. newest policy meeting. All 3 major U.S. stock indexes were basically. the same in early trading with the S&P 500 and the. Nasdaq Composite hovering near to their record closing. highs. There's this waiting game for Nvidia ... and the market's at. an all-time high, so where do we going to go from here except. possibly sideways? said Thomas Martin, senior portfolio supervisor at. GLOBALT in Atlanta. Combined quarterly arise from retailers Target and. TJX raised questions about the resiliency of the U.S. customer, while megacap chipmaker Nvidia Corp's. profits report after the bell might check the current rally in. U.S. stocks, mostly driven by the promise of AI innovation. It has actually been a long period of time since you had a business in this. position in a market and technology that could be so. significant to a lot of parts of the economy, and it's still at. the early stages, Martin stated. A great deal of other companies are trying to compete with Nvidia,. and there's all of this financial investment in facilities and it's. all predicated on AI doing something significant in a brief. period of time, he added. Minutes from the Federal Free market Committee's (FOMC) most. current financial policy conference, due this afternoon, will be. inspected for any insight on when and how many interest rate. cuts can be expected this year. In current commentary, Fed officials have been prompting. perseverance concerning the timing of the central bank's pivot to a. rate cutting stage while revealing doubts that inflation is. dependably trending back toward the Fed's 2% goal. Economic data released on Wednesday showed existing home. sales can be found in listed below analyst quotes, while. hotter-than-expected core inflation data from Britain triggered. financiers to pull their bets on a Bank of England rate cut next. month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 24.23 points,. or 0.06%, to 39,848.76, the S&P 500 lost 2.85 points, or. 0.05%, to 5,318.56 and the Nasdaq Composite included 3.61. points, or 0.02%, to 16,836.23. European shares drew back as the stronger-than-expected. British inflation information dampened the state of mind, which was currently. weighed down following a report about possible Chinese tariffs. on imported cars and trucks. The pan-European STOXX 600 index lost 0.50% and. MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe shed. 0.22%. Emerging market stocks increased 0.14%. MSCI's broadest index of. Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan closed 0.28%. greater, while Japan's Nikkei lost 0.85%. Treasury yields increased ahead of the release of the Fed. minutes. Criteria 10-year notes last fell 4/32 in cost. to yield 4.4276%, from 4.414% late on Tuesday. The 30-year bond fell 1/32 in cost to yield. 4.5558%, from 4.554% late on Tuesday. The dollar advanced against a basket of world currencies. while the pound reinforced after Britain's. hotter-than-expected core inflation reading. The dollar index rose 0.13%, with the euro. down 0.19% to $1.0833. The Japanese yen compromised 0.20% to 156.50 per dollar, while. sterling was last trading at $1.2727, up 0.16% on the. day. Crude costs slid for the third consecutive session on fears. that prolonged limiting Fed policy might take its toll on. demand. U.S. crude was the same at $79.26 per barrel and. Brent was last at $82.14, down 0.89% on the day. Gold rates plunged, backing down from recent record highs. as financiers girded themselves for the Fed minutes. Area gold dropped 1.4% to $2,388.82 an ounce.
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A minimum of 2 business look for Norway seabed mining licenses
2 business said on Wednesday they are seeking offshore seabed acreage on the Norwegian continental shelf where they intend to check out for minerals, in what could be the start of a controversial new mining market. The procedure puts Norway on track to become the very first country to start commercial production from its continental rack of metals helpful in the shift from oil and gas, such as copper, cobalt and zinc, in addition to unusual earth aspects (REE). Elections for acreage sent by a May 21 due date will form the basis for revealing the country's first seabed mineral exploration licensing round later on this year, Norwegian authorities have said. Norway's energy ministry did not immediately respond to a. ask for comment. Start-up Loke, backed by TechnipFMC, Wilhelmsen. and Kongsberg Gruppen, informed it had. chosen a significant variety of blocks focusing on locations with. polymetallic crusts, abundant in cobalt and rare earth components. We are encouraged by the substantial resource capacity and. are eagerly anticipating the very first licensing round, Chief. Executive Walter Sognnes told in an e-mail. Oslo-listed Green Minerals said it had nominated. four areas, each making up numerous blocks. The business expects. first ore from pilot production in 2028, according to a current. financier presentation. Ecological groups, including Greenpeace, have actually called for. an international moratorium on mining for seabed minerals, arguing that. it can cause permanent damage to little investigated life forms. The Norwegian federal government states the expedition stage should. aid to develop the possible impact of seabed mineral. extraction, and also offer more understanding about seabed. organisms. Norwegian oil company Aker BP declined to say whether. it had actually submitted elections, but has previously stated it would. be intrigued in exploring the resource potential. The federal government intends to provide very first licenses in 2025, but. companies will require different approvals to start production. The nation's parliament, which chose in January to open. vast locations in the Norwegian and the Greenland Seas to the. potential brand-new market, will also have to authorize the first. tasks.
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United States Mountain Valley sees WV-VA natgas pipeline in service in early June
U.S. gas pipeline venture Mountain Valley Pipeline pushed back the target inservice date of its longdelayed pipeline from West Virginia to Virginia to early June from the previous target of prior to June 1. The business told federal energy regulators in a filing late Tuesday that the small delay was due to the extended building and construction period to attain weld-out, which has been related to weather and environmental protection. The $7.85 billion Mountain Valley project is the only big gas pipeline under construction in the U.S. Northeast. It has encountered numerous regulative and court fights that have stopped work numerous times given that construction began in 2018. The pipeline, which is key to unlocking gas supplies from Appalachia, the nation's biggest shale gas-producing region, required a bill from the U.S. Congress that was signed into law by President Joe Biden and assist from the Supreme Court before it might restart building. On April 22, Mountain Valley looked for permission from the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to put the job in service by May 23 to meet the prior to June 1 in service target. Ever since, Mountain Valley stated in the FERC filing that the project is nearly bonded out, with less than 10 welds remaining to allow screening for mechanical completion out of more than 51,000 welds project-wide. Hydro screening has been effectively finished on approximately 99% of the task facilities, with the last hydrotest to be completed quickly after weld-out, the company said. Earlier in May, the company said it repaired a segment of pipe that stopped working a water test. Commissioning is total for all task compressor stations and facilities are packed with gas in between the northern terminus of the project and milepost 186.1, the business likewise stated. When Mountain Valley began building and construction in February 2018, U.S. energy business Equitrans Midstream with an approximately 49% interest, the lead partner building the job, approximated the 2.0-billion cubic feet per day project would cost about $3.5. billion and get in service by late 2018. The 303-mile
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SAfrica thinks about grumbling to WTO versus EU carbon border tax
South Africa is thinking about lodging a formal complaint at the World Trade Organization against the European Union's protectionist carbon border levy, Trade Minister Ebrahim Patel stated on Wednesday. The EU's proposed carbon border change mechanism (CBAM),. which will enforce charges on imports of carbon-intensive products. like steel and cement into Europe, has actually dealt with criticism from some. establishing countries and sectors including China's steel industry. In October, the EU launched a trial phase of the world's. first carbon border levy, which from 2026 will impose expenses on. imports of steel, cement, aluminium, fertilisers, electricity,. and hydrogen. Our company believe that first reward constantly is to reach arrangement. through engagement and settlement and our door stays open to. find a settlement with the European Union on this matter, Patel. told . Stopping working whatever else, we would be required to take the. next action which would be to lodge a protest (at the. WTO), but we are still continuing conversations with a view to. finding a friendly option, he added. A European Commission representative said the border levy. was designed to adhere to WTO rules and would enable deductions. for any carbon rates currently paid abroad. EU domestic market pays a carbon rate. We need to. make sure importers pay a comparable cost, based upon the carbon. content of their goods, to avoid carbon leak and help. decrease greenhouse gas emissions, the spokesperson said. Carbon leakage refers to the risk that, instead of. reducing emissions, European markets would merely emigrate. to prevent paying the EU's domestic carbon price. Nevertheless, nations consisting of South Africa say CBAM would. punish establishing nations struggling to raise the big. financial investments needed to minimize their industries' CO2 emissions. Instead of acknowledging differential levels of advancement,. it enforces a one-size fits on all companies throughout the world, Patel. stated. He said South Africa, which might take a major economic. hit ought to CBAM be presented, had raised the problem of. trade-related procedures on environment change at the WTO in February. The EU is South Africa's biggest trading partner and the. existing variation of CBAM might result in a decrease of total. exports to the EU of 4% in 2030
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Kinder Morgan buys Texas oilfield in carbon-tax play, sources say
U.S. pipeline operator Kinder Morgan Inc has actually obtained oil and gas making possessions in West Texas and is preparing to tap U.S. carbon capture incentives to increase output from the residential or commercial properties, according to individuals knowledgeable about the matter. The purchase shows how the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act's. $ 60 per metric load tax credit for carbon sequestration is. spurring oil and gas offers by increasing the attractiveness of. older oil-producing areas, among individuals said. The company. paid about $100 million for the oilfield, according to one of. the people, which first produced oil in the 1920s and still. pumps about 1,100 barrels each day. Kinder Morgan has a little oil production organization that. produces about 50,000 barrels of oil per day by injecting carbon. dioxide into the wells to push out more oil. The U.S. tax credit. for carbon sequestration made the field more economic, among. the people stated. The deal with carefully held Avad Energy Partners includes. some 265 wells in a fully grown location of the largest U.S. oil field,. according to Avad marketing files and people near to the. matter. Kinder Morgan decreased to comment. An Avad Energy. representative did not right away respond to a request for comment. The acquisition includes some 11,600 acres of land that has. potential to increase oil production utilizing the improved oil. recovery strategy involving carbon dioxide injection, the. individuals stated. Kinder Morgan independently plans to sell several of its older,. traditional oilfields in the area, among individuals said, to. concentrate on the higher-potential homes. This is revealing KMI is staying in E&P organization, among the. individuals stated using the acronym for exploration and production. They have big CO2 sources in West Texas that can be utilized to. produce more oil. Another 100 million to 300 million barrels of oil could be. recovered over time from the field by using improved oil. recovery, that individual said.
US natgas flows to Freeport LNG in Texas seen at five-month high, LSEG information shows
Gas streaming to Freeport LNG's. export plant in Texas was on track to hit a fivemonth high up on. Friday, LSEG information showed, with a liquefaction train expected to. return from a short upset on Thursday.
The start-up and shutdown of Freeport and other U.S. liquefied gas (LNG) export plants frequently has a major. impact on international gas rates.
U.S. gas futures at the Henry Hub standard in. Louisiana have soared by around 59% over the past 3 weeks,. due in part to the boost in feedgas at Freeport after it. left a blackout in late April.
U.S. gas futures were trading at a 16-week high of $2.56 per. million British thermal systems (mmBtu) on Friday.
Gas streams to the 7 big U.S. LNG export plants rose from. an average of 11.9 billion cubic feet daily (bcfd) in April to. 12.7 bcfd so far in May with the return of Freeport's 2.1-bcfd. plant in Texas.
That compares to a month-to-month record high of 14.7 bcfd in. December.
On a daily basis, LNG feedgas was on track to rise from 12.6. bcfd on Thursday to 13.2 bcfd on Friday with circulations to Freeport. expected to reach 2.1 bcfd on Friday, the most given that November. 2023, after a quick one-day reduction to 1.5 bcfd on Thursday.
Gas flows to Freeport typical about 2.0 bcfd over the prior. seven days (May 8-15).
Energy traders said that brief decrease at Freeport on. Thursday was most likely due to the journey of a liquefaction train.
Freeport stated Train 2 experienced a journey on Thursday due to. a compressor issue, according to a report the company filed with. Texas environmental regulators.
Officials at Freeport were not immediately available for. remark.
Each of Freeport's 3 liquefaction trains can turn about. 0.7 bcfd of gas into LNG.
One billion cubic feet is enough gas to supply about 5. million U.S. homes for a day.