Aug 27 (Reuters) - Oil and gas services company Amec Foster Wheeler Plc reported a 12 percent fall in first-half pretax profit, hurt by the slump in oil prices and said it expected trading margins to fall further.
PARIS, Aug 27 (Reuters) - French oil major Total has agreed to sell some of its gas pipeline assets in the UK's North Sea to North Sea Midstream Partners, an affiliate of U.S.-based private equity firm ArcLight Capital, for 585 million pounds ($907 million).<
Petrochemicals play a vital role in American football, from the plastics in the equipment used to play the sport to the artificial turf to the souvenirs and cups for beverages.
(Thu, 27 Aug 2015) The domestic market for distributed wind turbines has weakened since the record capacity additions in 2012. Last year's installations of mid-size and small wind turbines were the lowest in a decade. Relatively low electricity prices, competition from other distributed energy sources, and relatively high permitting and other nonmaterial costs have presented challenges to the distributed wind market in the United States.
CHICAGO, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Monsanto Co, having ditched an audacious $46 billion offer for Syngenta AG , may downshift to a humbler strategy of beefing up its crop protection portfolio through other acquisitions, partnerships and licensing agreements.
Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical is reportedly planning to increase the operating rate at its 540,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) refinery in Mailiao.
TRIPOLI, Aug 26 (Reuters) - A senior negotiator from one of Libya's two parliaments on Wednesday quit United Nations-sponsored talks on forming a unity government, a day before a new round of negotiations.
WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled against India in a dispute with the United States over its solar power program, Indian business newspaper Mint reported on Wednesday.
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