Electricité de France is a French power production and distribution company. Shell West CCA has been awarded the fuels contract for Electicité De France's EDF four Carribean sites, thanks to strong logistics capabilities and a longstanding customer relationship. Shell's assignment was to ensure customer has consistent and reliable supply and...
By Vanessa Walters and John BowkerPARIS/LONDON (Reuters UK) - French utility EDFEDF agreed a 12.5 billion pound bid for British Energy BGY, sweetening its bid to control Britain's nuclear power industry after months of wrangling.EDF, the world's biggest producer of nuclear energy and already the fifth largest electricity supplier...
PARIS (Reuters) - French utility EDFEDF launched a 12.5 billion pound ($23.14 billion) agreed takeover bid on power producer British Energy BGY, helping to secure Britain's nuclear future.EDF, the world's biggest maker of nuclear energy, said on Wednesday it offered to pay 774 pence per British Energy share.As an...
PARIS (Reuters) - French power company EDFEDF said on Wednesday it would not make a competing bid for U.S. power company Constellation Energy Group Inc CEG because the credit crisis has made financing more difficult to obtain.MidAmerican Energy, a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc BRKa BRKb, agreed...
Business in brief ELECTRICITY British Energy produced 26 per cent less power in the first half of 2008 than the year before because of on-going maintenance programmes at two of its eight nuclear facilities. Total output for the six months was 22.7 TWh TerraWatt hours, of...
Byline: By ALEX LOWE Sports Correspondent TOP Northampton and Ireland flanker Neil Best's appeal against an 18-week ban for eye-gouging has been dismissed by a Rugby Football Union panel. The 29-year-old remains suspended until January 27, 2009. The ban covers eight rounds of Guinness...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Mirion Technologies Radiation Monitoring Systems Division announced today that it has been awarded the contract to supply the process radiation monitoring systems and the building radiation monitoring systems for the new EPR nuclear reactor being built at Flamanville in the Lower Normandy region of northern France. ...
The Northampton and Ireland flanker Neil Best's appeal against an 18-week suspension for eye-gouging was dismissed last night by a Rugby Football Union panel. The 29-year-old remains suspended until 27 January, 2009. The ban covers eight rounds of Guinness Premiership action, all of Northampton's European Challenge Cup and EDF Energy...
WASPS fly-half Danny Cipriani insists he is not thinking of an England return even though injury to Jonny Wilkinson may have opened up an opportunity. Cipriani is only in the early stages of a comeback after suffering an horrific ankle injury last season. The 20-year-old is...
NORTHAMPTON 30 BRISTOL 17 No sooner do Bristol unearth a gem of a player, than they have to leave him out. Mat Turner's try double in the EDF Energy Cup may not have helped Bristol beat Northampton at Franklin's Gardens, but it certainly got the travelling...
SALE 17 CARDIFF BLUES 18 At the end of a surreal Saturday afternoon in Stockport, the biggest shock was the announcement that Munster had been unable to sell their full allocation of tickets for their Heineken Cup visit to Edgeley Park a week on Sunday. ...
SARACENS 17 SCARLETS 26 It might have been men against boys in this EDF Energy Cup tie, but Llanelli, or Scarlets as they now style themselves, certainly headed home knowing they had been in a game. In fact Eddie Jones, the Saracens director...
GLOUCESTER 24 WASPS 19 Gloucester have never lost a home game in the EDF Energy Cup and, despite the scoreline, they were not going to lose this one. Forget the Aussie soap but home and away plays a dramatic role in the shake- up of this...
GLOUCESTER 24 WASPS 19 DANNY Cipriani was 'rested' as Wasps suffered badly for sending out a weakened side. They slumped to another defeat - this time in their first game in Group A of the EDF Energy Cup....
SALE 17 CARDIFF BLUES 18 RICHARD MUSTOE'S try got the Blues out of an Anglo-Welsh jail - but coach Dai Young admits they remain on parole. Super sub Mustoe came off the bench to score seven minutes from...
TIME spent fighting two towers of London is exactly what Simon Easterby believes the Scarlets need to harden themselves up. The Llanelli skipper has confessed his team have shown a worryingly soft-hearted approach just at the time their cherished European dream is about to be conjured...
BATH 15 LEICESTER 19 It was Bath against Leicester, but not as we know it. The final whistle on a Tigers victory at The Rec ought to signal massed lemming dives into the nearby Avon; instead the home crowd shrugged and tutted and went off for...
NORTHAMPTON 30 BRISTOL 17 Saints overran a hapless Bristol to open their EDF Energy Cup campaign in convincing fashion. The spectacle was not helped by the referee, Nigel Owens, sending five players - three of them from Bristol - to the sin-bin, the...
Full-strength Blues survive fright from a ghost XV as bigger challenges loom in European competition SALE 17 CARDIFF 18 The Cardiff Blues had the magnificent seven back in their ranks yesterday but still took their time stirring themselves into action. Indeed, even with Martyn Williams...
Sore ankle means a rest for stand-off three days after his remarkable comeback GLOUCESTER 24 LONDON WASPS 19 After his return in midweek against Bath, there was a degree of anticipation over seeing Danny Cipriani in a sequel. No such luck. The Wasps stand-off had been...