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Aquatech to provide desalination system to Sohar refinery project in Oman

Aquatech has secured a contract with Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) to design and supply a multiple effect distillation (MED) seawater desalination system for Sohar refinery improvement project in Oman.

RPT-BHP Billiton expects China's growth to "drift down" in coming years

LONDON, Aug 25 (Reuters) - China's economic growth will cool from the 7 percent forecast for 2015, curbing demand for some commodities as the country completes investments in major construction projects, BHP Billiton chief Andrew Mackenzie said on Tuesday.

RPT-UPDATE 3-BHP Billiton profit dives to 10-year low on commodities rout

MELBOURNE, Aug 25 (Reuters) - BHP Billiton promised to keep its dividends even as it reported its worst underlying profit in a decade on Tuesday, hurt by plunging iron ore, copper, coal and oil prices.

Brazil judge says president's ex-chief of staff may have been bribed

SAO PAULO, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The federal judge in Brazil overseeing a sweeping corruption investigation said on Tuesday there were signs that President Dilma Rousseff's former chief of staff had received bribes.

UPDATE 2-Caixa Seguridade, IRB file for IPOs amid Brazil rout

SAO PAULO, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Brazilian insurer Caixa Seguridade Participações SA and reinsurer IRB Brasil RE SA on Tuesday filed plans for initial public offerings that their shareholders expect to raise a combined 13 billion reais ($3.6 billion) should an across-the-board market rout ease in coming weeks.

UPDATE 1-U.S., Mexico open first new rail link in over a century

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The United States and Mexico on Tuesday opened their first new rail link in more than a century as part of plans to update infrastructure carrying nearly $600 billion a year in bilateral trade, officials said.

UPDATE 2-Exxon $225 mln pollution settlement with New Jersey is approved

Aug 25 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp's $225 million settlement with the administration of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie of a longstanding environmental pollution case won approval on Tuesday from a state judge, over the objections of critics who called the accord a sellout.

UPDATE 3-District of Columbia regulators reject Exelon-Pepco merger

WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia on Tuesday denied Exelon Corp's $6.8 billion bid for Pepco Holdings Inc, possibly delivering a knockout blow to the deal.

Makai Builds Ocean Thermal-Energy Demo Plant With U.S. Navy

Makai Ocean Engineering Inc. has built an ocean thermal-energy conversion demonstration plant in Hawaii.

U.S., Mexico to open first new rail link in over a century

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The United States and Mexico, which have nearly $600 billion in annual trade, will launch on Tuesday the first new rail link between the two countries in more than a century, in the Texas border city of Brownsville, officials said.

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