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Pipemaker Rocca touts imports in Trump’s America

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s “America First” approach to energy doesn’t scare Paolo Rocca. The billionaire steel tycoon who controls Tenaris SA, the world’s largest maker of seamless-steel pipes for the energy industry, expects the creation of American jobs at his $2.3 billion plant in Texas will allow his company to continue to import certain types of pipes into the ...

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Dakota Access pipeline outlasts protests

  Bloomberg In the end, the pipeline won. Dakota Access, which became a rallying point for tens of thousands of anti-fossil fuel and Native American-rights protesters, is preparing for service, a court filing on Monday showed. Now that the last segment built underneath Lake Oahe has been filled with oil, it’s only a matter of time before the line delivers ...

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Dow-DuPont shows innovation is EU’s M&A battleground

  Bloomberg Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co.’s success at converting smart ideas in the laboratory into products used by farmers across the world was nearly their undoing when European Union regulators started poking around their proposed $77 billion merger. The bloc has been pushing to encourage investment in research and development as part of its political agenda, and EU ...

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