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- China Targets Addax, Kosmos in Overseas Asset Grab
- China is fueling much of the consolidation within the oil and gas industry, with as much as $12 billion worth of deal currently in the pipeline. The latest company to catch China's asset-focused eye is Addax Petroleum, a Geneva-based oil and gas explorer, the South China Morning Post reported Monday....
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
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- Kosmos's Ghana Sale Bid "illegal": GNPC Source
- By Kwasi Kpodo ACCRA (Reuters) - State-run Ghana National Petroleum Corp GNPC believes Kosmos Energy's deal to sell its stake in the huge Jubilee oil field to Exxon Mobil XOM is illegal and is ready to buy the stake itself, a GNPC source said on Monday. Ghana has received expressions...
- News items 2009-10-12
- Exxon Fires Up Acquisition Engine, Buys Kosmos' Stake in Jubilee Oil Field
- Exxon Mobil is finally putting its large cash position to use with the acquisition of Kosmos Energy's stake in the Jubilee oil field offshore Ghana. Exxon is close to finalizing the deal, the WSJ reported Tuesday. Analysts have previously valued Kosmos' oil field holdings in Ghana at $3 billion to $6...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- BP's Interest in Kosmos Raises Stakes for Ghana Oil Assets
- BP has apparently joined the growing list of major energy companies -- that already includes ExxonMobil and China's CNOOC -- interested in oil assets offshore Ghana. The focus is Kosmos Energy, the private equity-backed U.S. company that is selling off its 23.5 percent stake in the Jubilee...
- Blog posts 2009-10-24
- Kosmos Energy Signs Agreement for Second Block Offshore Ghana; Plans to Drill Exploratory Well in 2007
- Company Partners with Tullow Oil and Anadarko Petroleum On Two Ghanaian Blocks; Validates Area's Potential DALLAS -- Kosmos Energy announces today that it has added a second block offshore the Republic of Ghana to the company's West African portfolio and has secured partners on both blocks. Kosmos and its...
- Research articles 2006-12-13
- Kosmos Energy Named "Explorer of the Year"
- DALLAS -- Kosmos Energy announces today that the company has been named "Explorer of the Year" by the World Junior Oil & Gas Congress. Kosmos was recognized for the company's discovery of the Mahogany Field in the Republic of Ghana's deep waters announced earlier this year, possibly one of the...
- Research articles 2007-12-11
- In brief: Kosmos formed/Energy buy-out/Venture deals rise.
- Byline: Michael Herman Warburg Pincus and The Blackstone Group, the US private equity firms, have committed $300m to Kosmos Energy, an oil exploration and production start-up focusing on Africa. Details were not disclosed, but sources close to the deal said Warburg Pincus led the...
- Research articles 2004-02-13
- MonoSol LLC and Kosmos Pharma form MonoSolRX LLC to commercialize oral film strip pharmaceutical products.(Industry News)
- MonoSol LLC has announced that it had acquired substantially all of the assets of Kosmos Pharma Limited and formed a new venture, MonoSolRx. MonoSolRx, a subsidiary of MonoSol LLC, will leverage the combined strength of MonoSol LLC and Kosmos Pharma to commercialize oral...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- EX-TRITON EXECS FORM KOSMOS ENERGY TO EXPLORE WEST AFRICA
- Private-equity providers Warburg Pincus and Blackstone Capital Partners have funded a new exploration company, Dallas-based Kosmos Energy LLC, which plans to explore West Africa. Kosmos founders, Warburg Pincus and Blackstone, an affiliate of The Blackstone Group, have made provisional commitments of up to $300 million. The company has...
- Research articles 2004-02-16
- Ex-Triton execs launch Kosmos with $300 million
- Private-equity providers Warburg Pincus and Blackstone Capital Partners have funded a new exploration company, Dallas-based Kosmos Energy LLC, formed by former Triton Energy Ltd. executives who are planning to explore offshore West Africa.Kosmos founders, Warburg Pincus and Blackstone, an affiliate of The Blackstone Group, have made provisional commitments of up...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- Russia launches Kosmos military satellite
- MOSCOW, July 21, 2006 AFP — Russia launched a military satellite from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the northwestern region of Arkhangelsk, Russian news agencies have said. The Kosmos satellite will "serve the interests of the ministry of defence," an official present at the launch said, ITAR-TASS news agency reported....
- Research articles 2006-07-21
- Ghana's Jubilee Field Keeps Getting Bigger, and the Bidding War Does Too
- The Jubilee field offshore Ghana may be bigger than previously thought, news that promises to ramp up exploration interest in the area and potentially complicates ExxonMobil's plans to acquire a piece of the West African oil-and-gas pie. U.S.-based Anadarko Petroleum and the UK's Tullow Oil announced Thursday another successful appraisal well in...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Energy Roundup: Pickens' Wind Farm Falters, Oil Speculator Crackdown and More
- Pickens scales down plans for world's largest wind farm -- The lack of a transmission line has disrupted T. Boone Pickens' plan to build a 1,000-megawatt wind farm -- the world's largest -- in Pampa, Texas. Pickens' company Mesa Power ordered 687 turbines from GE for about $2 billion...
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- China's CNOOC In Bidding War With Exxon For Huge Ghana Oil Field
- Chinese oil giant CNOOC is threatening to outbid Exxon for a stake in the Jubilee oil field in Ghana. Exxon has bid $4 billion for this 23.5% stake, which is currently owned by Dallas-based Kosmos Energy. Judging from the WSJ's report , it sounds...
- News items 2009-10-12
- Tullow Oil Reels in Shell, Sells Super-Major on Potential Offshore French Guiana
- Tullow Oil, the tiny-but-mighty UK-based company, has sold super-major Royal Dutch Shell on the potential of fields offshore French Guiana, a territory on South America's northern coast. Tullow Oil is a partner in the Jubilee field offshore Ghana in West Africa -- a long ways from South America. But...
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- China's CNPC Eyes Repsol YPF's Argentine Arm
- In yet another sign of China's interest in locking up oil and gas resources for its energy-hungry economy, China National Petroleum Company is reportedly reviving its $17 billion bid for the Argentine arm of Repsol YPF. CNPC may offer to buy up to 75 percent of YPF...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Blackstone Plans Portfolio IPOs
- By Megan Davies DUBAI (Reuters UK) - Private equity firm Blackstone Group BX is planning to list up to eight of its portfolio companies, according to a source who received a letter the firm sent to investors on Friday. The letter details that Blackstone is positioning one company -- hospital...
- News items 2009-10-12
- Metromedia International Group to Introduce Digital Cable TV and Internet Services in Moscow
- Business Editors & High Tech Writers NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--July 25, 2000 Metromedia International Group, Inc. (AMEX:MMG), which through Metromedia International Telecommunications, Inc. ("MITI") is the owner of various interests in communications joint ventures in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and other emerging markets, today announced that it...
- Research articles 2000-07-25
- Week in Oil & Gas: Foreign Oil Sands Grab and Climate Shenanigans
- Korea National Oil Corp.'s $3.9 billion acquisition of Harvest Energy sent a message last week to the industry: the Canadian oil sands are back. High operating costs and low crude prices turned the region into an investment desert for months. That dim view is brightening, however, as...
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Russia launches Iran's first satellite
- MOSCOW AFP — Russia put Iran's first ever satellite into space, as a Kosmos-3M rocket blasted off from the northwestern Plesetsk launch site carrying one Russian and seven foreign devices, the Russian space agency said. The launcher successfully took off at 0652 GMT carrying a Russian military Mozhayets-5 satellite,...
- Research articles 2005-10-27
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