DUBAI / Emirates Business dnata Travel was presented with the prestigious ‘UAE’s Leading Travel Agency’ accolade for the fourth consecutive year at the World Travel Awards Middle East Gala Ceremony 2017, which took place in Dubai. In addition to that, dnata Travel also picked up ‘Abu Dhabi’s Leading Travel Agency’ and ‘The Middle East’s Leading Business Travel Agency’. The World ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Emirates unveiled the first aircraft in its fleet with a new livery dedicated to Expo 2020 Dubai. The decal was installed on A6-EPK, an Emirates Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, at the Emirates Engineering hangar. The unique and striking livery is based on the Expo 2020 logo inspired by an ancient gold ring excavated in Dubai and it ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business In what is certain to be big news for sandwich fans, Subway is celebrating World Sandwich Day with a huge free giveaway across the UAE. On November 3, Subway restaurants in the UAE will offer its customers a free sandwich. Redemption is easy, all you have to do is walk into any Subway UAE restaurant that ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi National Insurance Company (ADNIC), one of the leading regional multi-line insurance providers for corporates and individuals, announced on Wednesday its financial results for the first nine months of 2017. The company reported a net profit of AED 178.5 million for the period, an increase of 24% over the same period last year. Commenting ...

Bloomberg Oil supermajors are getting back to their normal way of life after surviving a price slump that shook the foundations of their business. BP Plc gave the boldest signal yet that the worst of the downturn was over, announcing that it would buy back shares for the first time in three years. After posting third-quarter earnings that comfortably beat ...

Bloomberg A ban on dirty fuels in areas surrounding one of the world’s most polluted cities is set to spur sales at India’s natural-gas retailers. India’s top court last week banned the use of petroleum coke and furnace oil in areas around the Indian capital, which is battling alarming levels of air pollution that’s risking human health. The ban, which ...

TOKYO / Reuters Japan’s Osaka Gas plans to raise its resales of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to third parties to 3 million tonnes a year by 2020, a top executive said on Wednesday, a move that would create more liquidity to Asia’s emerging natural gas markets. Most Asian LNG is supplied under fixed term contracts that include destination clauses that ...

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s biggest oil producer, is also a leader when it comes to slashing the crude price the country needs to balance its budget. The kingdom will need oil to trade at $70 a barrel next year to break even, the Washington-based International Monetary Fund said in its Regional Economic Outlook for the Middle East and Central Asia. ...

Bloomberg Exxon Mobil Corp. agreed to pay more than $300 million to resolve air pollution violations tied to eight chemical plants in Texas and Louisiana, one of a pair of environmental settlements with oil companies announced by the Trump administration. Separately, Denver-based PDC Energy Inc. agreed to pay $22.2 million after storage tanks were found to be leaking smog-forming compounds. ...

Bloomberg Congressional Republicans counting on a $1 billion windfall from selling oil-drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to help pay for tax cuts may be in for a disappointment. Data from previous Arctic oil lease sales suggest the US is likely to collect less than a fifth of that billion-dollar goal over the next decade— about $145.5 million ...