Market Round-up: BG Group shares start the day at the top of the FTSE 100’s winners’ board after it wins the environmental go-ahead for its coal-seam gas projects in Queensland... more
Salamander Energy, the London-based explorer which is drilling holes all over South-east Asia, is teaming with big Australian group Origin Energy to become a major player in the Thai power market... more
Energy: BG Group has offered to buy Pure Energy Resources for A$796 million (£359 million), topping a rival offer from Arrow Energy, Royal Dutch Shell's partner in Australian coal-seam gas... more
Gas giant BG Group is being tipped to launch a £2.33 billion bid for Australian energy firm Queensland Gas despite the economic turmoil in Asian markets... more
The price of oil was today falling back toward $100 a barrel for the first time in five months after the Opec cartel signalled there would be no need to make cuts in production in order to underpin the price... more
It was inevitable the financial sector would lead the charge on the stock market today, in response to the US Government’s decision to rescue mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a cash injection in excess of £100 million... more
BG Group's Aussie target Origin Energy unveils a 20% rise in full-year profits to £207 million but predicts slower growth in the months to come... more
Ill-effects of the credit squeeze are starting be felt by consumer-related companies as investors fret about the shrinking amounts of cash in our pockets and purses.... more
Australia's Origin Energy has told shareholders to reject BG Group’s A$13.8 billion (£6.43 billion) bid, formally signalling a change of plan for its assets... more
The battle to secure worldwide gas resources could see Britain's BG Group find itself in a bruising multibillion pound bidding war with the Chinese for the coal-gas assets of Australia's Origin Energy... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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