- Venezuela readies law to seize some oil services
Law puts state in charge of companies services (FT)
- Alstom to bid for Areva T&D
Profits up 30 per cent to $1.6bn (FT)
- Xstrata suffers protest over pay
More than a third failed to back it pay plan (FT)
- Lex: Russian energy liberalisation
Another financial crisis-induced headache for Russia (FT)
- Oil tanker owners see rates fall
Shipowners see earnings plummet (FT)
- Obama backs biofuel use and reviews corn ethanol’s impact
Administration injects almost $2bn to boost production (FT)
- Britain to help China on carbon capture
Move to share technology may help Britain meet Kyoto promise (Guardian)
- Cnooc parent, Datong plan $4.4bn coal-to-gas project
Plant to produce 4bn cubic meters of gas a year (Bloomberg)
