Trinidad strikes gas deal with Venezuela for natural gas exports

Bloomberg Trinidad and Tobago will continue to ship super-chilled natural gas all over the world, with a little help from Venezuela. President Nicolas Maduro and Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Keith Rowley signed a deal where Trinidad will purchase gas from Venezuela’s prolific Dragon Field, state-run energy company, Petroleos de Venezuela SA, said in a tweet. Under the terms of ...

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CenterPoint turning to cows, landfills for gas alternative

Bloomberg CenterPoint Energy Inc. wants to introduce a pilot programme in Minnesota offering customers access to a renewable form of natural gas recovered from dairy farms and landfills. It’s the first such programme in the Midwest, mirroring the push by utilities to offer electricity powered by wind or solar. Methane produced by everything from manure to rotting garbage is the ...

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AMLO favours cutting red tape on Pemex partnerships

Bloomberg Petroleos Mexicanos will be free to choose its own partners if Mexico’s next government has its way. President-Elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador may seek to change a part of the 2014 energy reforms requiring Pemex receive regulatory approval when choosing partners in oil blocks, according to people with knowledge of the situation. Previously, Lopez Obrador has said that he ...

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Korea unveils proposed changes to ‘chaebol’ conglomerate rules

Bloomberg South Korea’s antitrust watchdog proposed new rules for family-run conglomerates to make it harder for such businesses to muscle through their agendas at the expense of minority shareholders. The proposed amendments to existing regulations would require a newly created holding company to own at least 30 percent in an entity it wants to treat as a listed subsidiary and ...

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RCom gets relief from dollar bondholders as deadline looms

Bloomberg Reliance Communications Ltd., the embattled Indian mobile operator headed by billionaire Anil Ambani, clinched the approval of overseas bondholders to ease its debt burden, putting the company a step closer to averting bankruptcy. RCom, which defaulted last year on its $300-million bond, got 83 percent of the noteholders to approve the plan in London, the company said in an ...

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To ease traffic gridlock, Philippines eyes ferries

Bloomberg To ease traffic congestion in the Philippines’ main financial centre, there’s no way to go but underground and afloat, said businessman Antonio Tiu, who is leading a venture for one of two subway projects in the capital region. IRC Properties Inc., Tiu’s venture with Chinese and Hong Kong companies for a $3.7 billion underground system in Metro Manila’s Makati ...

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Didi halts Hitch service after 2nd customer killed

Bloomberg Didi Chuxing said it will suspend a carpool service and has removed two executives after a second female customer in three months was allegedly killed by a driver in China. The ride-hailing app company said in an emailed statement on Sunday that it will halt its Hitch service starting on Monday and reevaluate the carpool operation’s business model. Didi ...

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How Nestle’s Japan experiment could create a $1bn business

Bloomberg Nestle SA’s unit in Japan expects a fledgling business selling nutritional drinks and supplements to aging consumers to grow into a nearly $1 billion business within a decade as the food giant becomes the latest to employ genetics to market food. The world’s biggest food company has seen increasing demand for a Japanese subscription program for nutrition that can ...

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Airbus A320 engine fix won’t come for months: Lufthansa

Bloomberg Engine glitches that have disrupted Airbus SE A320neo jet operations around the world may take at least three more months to resolve amid a scarcity of upgraded turbines, according to comments from one of the planemaker’s biggest customers, Deutsche Lufthansa. Fixes for the snags afflicting the geared turbofan, or GTF, powerplant made by United Technologies Corp.’s Pratt & Whitney ...

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Air France-KLM, BA pull out of Iran amid US sanctions

Bloomberg Two of Europe’s biggest carriers, Air France-KLM Group and British Airways, said they’ll suspend services to Iran, citing the reduced commercial viability of the route in the wake of the latest US sanctions. Air France and Dutch sibling KLM will halt flights by the end of September due to “weak commercial results,” the group said. British Airways, IAG SA’s ...

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