Oct 18 (Reuters) - John Stumpf resigned from the boards of
Chevron Corp and Target Corp a week after he
quit Wells Fargo & Co as chief executive bowing to
pressure over its sales tactics.
CALGARY, Alberta, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Laurentian Bank of
Canada, the country's seventh-biggest lender, is setting
up an energy investment banking team in Calgary, Alberta's oil
capital, a bank official said on Tuesday.
The solar industry is booming, and there’s a lot to keep track of. From system configuration to energy storage, O&M (Operations and Maintenance) and beyond, the job of Franklin Beach Energy’s Managing Director Carter Wall is never really done. Sustainable woman Carter discusses her career, trends in solar, tips for contractors, faulty O&M contracts, preventative maintenance and workforce diversity.
BOGOTA, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Two dozen fighters from the
leftist ELN rebels have surrendered voluntarily to the Colombian
navy, the military said on Tuesday, in a sign the group may be
losing strength as it prepares to begin peace talks with the
government.
CARACAS, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Venezuela has tapped its
vice-minister for hydrocarbons to be the South American
country's new governor to OPEC, as the recession-hit country
pushes for a deal to push up oil prices.
MOSCOW, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Gazprom Neft, the oil
arm of Russian state gas firm Gazprom, could slow its
oil output growth compared with the current plan if needed, its
Chief Executive Alexander Dyukov told Rossiya 24 TV.
LONDON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Miner Glencore has
increased the size of a bond buyback tender to $1.49 billion
from $1.25 billion, it said on Tuesday, seeking to seize on
favourable conditions to reduce its debt burden.
Oct 18 (Reuters) - A U.S. interagency task force on Tuesday
issued recommendations aimed at reducing the risk of incidents
involving natural gas facilities in the wake of a major leak
from the Aliso Canyon storage facility in California last year.
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