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Iraq plans 3 gas processing plants to reduce flaring

  Reuters Iraq plans to build three new plants to process natural gas currently being flared at southern oil fields, and use the fuel for power generation and to increase the nation’s income from energy exports, Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi said on Monday. Iraq is forced to flare some of the gas produced alongside crude oil as it lacks the ...

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South Korean pension fund clears Daewoo bailout plan

  Bloomberg South Korea’s National Pension Service agreed to restructure 1.55 trillion won ($1.4 billion) of bonds issued by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., helping the world’s largest shipbuilder tide over a payment crisis that had threatened to almost shut the company. An agreement came after Daewoo, the Korea Development Bank and Export-Import Bank of Korea took steps to ...

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Ant Financial raises MoneyGram bid by 36%

  Bloomberg Ant Financial raised its agreed offer for MoneyGram International Inc. by 36 percent as the financial-services company controlled by Chinese billionaire Jack Ma tries to top a competing offer and overcome security concerns. The revised bid is worth $18 a share in cash, up from a previous offer of $13.25, the companies said in a joint statement. The ...

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India seeks end to urea imports in 5 years

  Bloomberg India, the world’s second-biggest consumer of urea, is boosting production of the crop nutrient seeking to end imports in the next five years. The South Asian nation, where agriculture makes up about 14 percent of the economy, produced 24.5 million tons of urea in the year ended March 2016, compared with consumption of around 32 million tons during ...

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Bain makes $816mn botox bet in deal for Hugel control

  Bloomberg Bain Capital agreed to invest about $816 million in Hugel Inc. to gain control of the South Korea-based maker of beauty products, including botox. Hugel shares rose by the most this year, pacing gains by a rival maker of the anti-wrinkle treatment. Bain will pay 354.7 billion won ($312 million) for 985,217 new shares in Hugel and 100 ...

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Brexit poses risks to chemicals industry

  Bloomberg Chemical companies are preparing for a potentially disruptive Brexit as the UK withdrawal from the European Union threatens an integrated market underpinning more than 40 billion euros ($42 billion) a year in two-way trade. Marco Mensink, director general of the European Chemical Industry Council representing manufacturers such as BASF SE, Akzo Nobel NV and Dupont Co., said the ...

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CEO halts ‘unrealistic’ merger dreams for Fiat

  Bloomberg Fiat Chrysler Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne is putting his search for a merger on the back burner as he focuses on reaching the Italian-American carmaker’s goal of eliminating debt before he retires in 2019. “We need to be very careful that we don’t start unrealistic dreams about consolidation as we are on our way to achieve historically ...

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Canada among fastest growing economies

  Bloomberg Almost out of nowhere, Canada has become one of the fastest growing economies in the developed world. The oil-producing nation, which struggled mightily with falling crude prices the past two years, grew at an annualized pace of almost 4 percent in the first quarter, according to the Bank of Canada’s latest estimates. No other Group of Seven economy ...

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