Companies that collaborate with competitors through blockchain consortia should also carefully consider whether any rules adopted by the consortia limit competition among participants or with other organizations.
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We've all got our own microbial consortia living within us.
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This, said the consortia of journalists that notably did not
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In March, a study by tech-focused research group Gartner put the number of blockchain-oriented consortia currently in existence at 61, more than doubling the 28 consortia that were around in the previous year.
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Banks have been collaborating and forming consortia to develop the technology.
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Given the size of the asset, bidders are likely to form consortia.
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Large banks joined buyers' consortia in roughly three-quarters of the deals.
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Five companies or consortia have bid for Nice airport, the sources said.
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He called media reports mentioning potential offers from private equity consortia "interesting".
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A consortia led by Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.
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Six companies or consortia have also bid for Lyon airport, according to the sources.
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Hyperledger, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, Ripple and R22008 are all consortia working with banks.
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Consortia like FDATA are radically changing attitudes towards open banking and gaining global support.
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In Britain ten firms snap up half of all contracts (or lead consortia that do).
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There is a lot of overlap between consortia as some companies operate in several zones.
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Companies or consortia would have to submit to those tests in mid-May, Aspe said.
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"Not all consortia are building applications, and not all are equally effective," the report said.
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For residential insurance, premium bonds and consortia products, Caixa intends to forge one joint venture.
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Sixty-four percent of US public libraries are members of consortia for e-book purchasing.
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Consortia were last seen at the height of the buyout boom in 26, as a flurry of jumbo deals built to a crescendo with a £25bn acquisition of pharmacy chain Alliance Boots, and market participants suggest that more consortia deals are on the way.
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"I expect a decision about the consortia very soon, probably in the coming weeks," Altmaier said.
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Others need to team up in bidding consortia to match AB InBev's price expectations, they said.
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"I expect a decision about the consortia very soon, probably in the coming weeks," Altmaier added.
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FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - Two private equity consortia vying for control of German generic drugmaker Stada STAGn.
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It also signed new contracts with consortia led by Southern and SCANA, agreeing to shoulder unanticipated costs.
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And there are reportedly 30 consortia globally, such as R3, looking to leverage blockchain for trade finance.
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At the same time, many banks are part of consortia aimed at exploring and developing blockchain technology.
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Final bids are due in early July, with Verizon and several private equity consortia remaining top contenders.
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Much of the funding will be spent on collaborative R&D projects, competitively awarded to industry-led consortia.
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The export controls will apply only to newer consortia operating on the east coast, where most Australians live.
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Still, Canadian executives said their funds should avoid being drawn into bidding wars as part of competing consortia.
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PC Carigali, a unit of Malaysia's state oil firm Petronas, won two blocks alone and four in consortia.
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About a quarter of public procurement tenders won by Meszaros companies since 313 were in consortia with Szijj's.
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He said that Caisse, Canada's second-largest pension fund, would be begin qualifying consortia in the fall of 2016.
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To accelerate development of the technology, companies have been joining forces in a growing number of consortia and groups.
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In the final version it dropped that requirement, so consortia can bid as low as they want, one source said.
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There are many other blockchain ecosystems such as Ethereum and the Linux-hosted Hyperledger project and consortia such as R4.53.
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We applaud Congress for enacting legislation and initiatives that support pediatric innovation, such as the Pediatric Device Consortia Grants Program.
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This is where international banks could fill the void, especially in auctions where multiple consortia require financial advisers, bankers said.
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Either or alone or in consortia, Pemex won seven blocks of the 12025 areas awarded by Mexico's CNH oil regulator.
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All told, 20 companies signed up to take part on an individual basis, with 16 consortia also on the list.
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In a bid to accelerate development and adoption of blockchain, companies have been joining forces in several industry consortia and groups.
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The prospective bidders included two consortia: U.S.-based Bechtel with Italy's Techint; and Australia's WorleyParsons with U.S.-based Jacobs Engineering Group.
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Melco hopes for as large a stake as possible in any operating consortia but remains flexible in its approach, Ho said.
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They should work together in regional and national university consortia to further a system-wide understanding and collaborative systemic problem-solving.
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These weaknesses in the international specification led companies to support rival technology consortia, each aiming to become a de facto standard.
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LNG Canada had initially worked with just one engineering consortia on the project but in January widened the field to four.
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Four others have pre-qualified in consortia, including a tie-up between U.S.-based Murphy Oil and Mexican independent Sierra Oil & Gas.
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Vedanta hopes to speed up development of the blocks by getting the oilfield firms to organize consortia that would deliver integrated services.
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Most of the talks to form consortia between Petrobras and other oil firms were and brief and informal, according to the sources.
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Under the project terms, the interested companies or consortia should also build a gas pipeline, pumping stations and facilities for crude storage.
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There are 300 consortia interested in buying the soured loans and relative platform being sold by Banco BPM, Il Sole 24 Ore said.
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While it remained unclear whether other final bids came in, two consortia which had been seen as strong contenders steered clear, they added.
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Six consortia, including conglomerates San Miguel Corp and Metro Pacific Investments Corp and their foreign partners, have expressed interest in the provincial airports.
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Citgo, the U.S. refining unit of PDVSA, had selected a consortia of firms to handle the overhaul and hired some 600 local workers.
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The BCG study concludes the U.S. has the potential to reverse the trend through better collaboration among private industry, universities and research consortia.
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That topped offers by two competing consortia, led by Itausa Investimentos Itau SA and EIG Global Energy Partners with Mubadala Investment Co, respectively.
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Companies form consortia to handle nearly all such projects to share the high risk and investment needed to drill and develop deepwater wells.
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Other companies in the consortia who placed bids in the tender included Germany's Nordex, Denmark's Vestas, and Turkey's Zorlu Enerji, the official said.
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First adopted in 2009 and extended for five years in 2014, the consortia block exemption regulation will now be in place until 2024.
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It allows liner shipping operators with a combined market share below 30% to cooperate to provide joint liner shipping services known as consortia.
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In a document signed by government-appointed commissioners, Alitalia said offers from single companies or consortia had to be presented by June 5.
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A spokeswoman declined to give names of potential companies taking part but added that German companies play important roles in both production consortia.
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The project is located in the Rovuma basin off the northern coast of Mozambique, where consortia led by Anadarko and Italy's ENI are exploring.
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Outlier Ventures co-develops blockchain startups with entrepreneurs, corporate venturing partners, consortia, and accelerators because the company "believes blockchains are about networks, not platforms".
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"The importance of this rule is it provides flexibility to form consortia," CNH President Juan Carlos Zepeda said in an interview following the vote.
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That topped competing offers by two competing consortia, led by Itausa Investimentos Itau SA and EIG Global Energy Partners with Mubadala Investment Co, respectively.
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The announcement came after Thyssenkrupp said it had shortlisted two private equity buyout consortia in the ongoing auction, ruling out Kone as a bidder.
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The announcement came after Thyssenkrupp said it had shortlisted two private equity buyout consortia in the ongoing auction, ruling out Kone as a bidder.
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Companies that submitted bids and that have formed consortia are: - Japan's JGC Corp and South Korea's GS - Technip, Tecnicas Reunidas and Samsung Engineering - Fluor < FLR.
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Eight consortia, including German giant Siemens, Enercon and Denmark's Vestas, participated in the project's tender on Thursday, an official from the energy ministry told Reuters.
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Before the selection process begins, resort operators including MGM and Hard Rock Cafe International Inc have been forming consortia with prospective hosts and domestic companies.
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DE, already the center of a 3.6 billion euro ($3.8 billion) takeover battle between two private equity consortia, two people close to the matter said.
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Hong Kong last year issued eight so-called virtual banking licences to companies including Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial, and consortia involving Standard Chartered and Tencent.
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At the end of 2016 two consortia, including Japanese engineering firm JGC Corp and French oil services company Technip, were shortlisted to handle the refurbishment.
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And four-fifths of them worked with just one primary contractor, suggesting that aid work is carried out largely by stable consortia, rather than shifting alliances.
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Petroleos Mexicanos, as the state-owned company is formally known, grabbed seven of the 35 blocks on offer, either as an individual bidder or in consortia.
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Wholesalers, distributors and retailers of drugs in America (such as hospitals and pharmacies) have merged or ganged up in consortia to help contain rising drug costs.
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It is hoping to get "at least four" groups to submit bids and will offer incentives to the consortia that can beat production targets, he said.
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There will be a maximum of three bids, he said, as that's the number of consortia that pre-qualified for the public-private partnership (PPP) project.
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Thyssenkrupp said earlier this week it was focusing on negotiations with two consortia: Blackstone, Carlyle and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board; and Advent and Cinven.
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"With Macron's reform plans shaken by the yellow vests, he may be wary of announcing expensive renewable energy projects," an official at one of the consortia said.
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The process has been delayed because potential bidders need more time to form consortia and the ministry is fielding questions about the bid terms, the document said.
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" But Ms. Vincent added: "The interesting thing about the Lichtenstein Foundation has been their heroic and imaginative efforts to give to networks and consortia around the globe.
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Aramco set up four consortia in 2613 and 2004 to explore the Empty Quarter, but they ended their search after failing to find commercial volumes of gas.
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Germany's Thyssenkrupp has identified two potential private equity consortia for the sale of its 16 billion euro elevator unit, after Finland's Kone pulled out of the deal.
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Forty-one different bus companies operate in Rio, but they are heavily controlled by four consortia, or business groups, which maintain significant market share in specific city zones.
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Exxon Mobil took six blocks in consortia with state-controlled oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro in the promising offshore Campos basin, after bidding 23.55 billion reais for one block.
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Argentina awarded six road projects to different consortia under its first wave of PPP in June, including China Construction America, a unit of China State Construction Engineering Corp.
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The pre-qualified companies constitute a total of 15 bidders, eight of which successfully sought to pre-qualify as individual operators while seven consortia did so as well.
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He added that companies are barred from bidding more than once on the same project, as several firms are simultaneously pre-qualified in consortia as well as individually.
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Efficient collaborations among competitors, like many blockchain consortia promise to be, can often justify restrictions on members' activities if the rules help the joint undertaking operate more efficiently.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Qatar Petroleum has won exploration rights in five offshore blocks in Argentina as part of two consortia, the company said in a statement on its website.
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Consortia made up of Pemex, Mexico's Citla Energy, Cepsa , Britain's Capricorn Energy and DEA won four blocks in the Tampico-Misantla-Veracruz basin further south along the Gulf.
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Established by billionaire art collector Hasso Plattner, co-founder of the software company SAP SE, the museum is the latest in a growing consortia of private museums in Germany.
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Those owners would retain title to their quotas, though, so the upshot might be fewer, larger vessels fishing on behalf of consortia, rather than the rugged individualism of today.
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In Hong Kong, affiliates of Alibaba Group and Xiaomi, and consortia led by Standard Chartered and BOC Hong Kong were among those who won the digital-only banking licences.
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Spain's Iberdrola was also shortlisted but has since withdrawn, but Denmark's Orsted - Europe's top offshore wind developer - was in talks to join one of the consortia, one source said.
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The Thabametsi and Khanyisa consortia will add more than 850 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired production to the national grid in a country which has huge untapped coal resources.
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As for Common Core, numerous states are gradually backing away from its strict requirements and dropping out of the federally financed testing consortia in search of more reasonable options.
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"The pleasing thing about this auction is the high number of consortia taking part, which is a sign there will be plenty of bids," he told Reuters on Friday.
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Argentina awarded six road projects to different consortia under its first wave of PPP in June, including China Construction America, a unit of China State Construction Engineering Corp (601668.SS).
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Pension funds, insurers and infrastructure investors are expected to show interest in the group, they said, adding that bidders were likely to form consortia given the size of the asset.
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ANKARA, July 27 (Reuters) - Eight consortia, including German giant Siemens, participated in the Turkish energy ministry's wind power project tender on Thursday, an official from the energy ministry told Reuters.
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At Oracle, we are committed to working with standards bodies and industry organizations like HL7 and a variety of research consortia to promote the right standards that enable data sharing.
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The financing will be sold down in a syndication process to investors, expected to launch in May, if one of the private equity consortia is successful, the banking sources said.
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ROME, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Some 29 companies or consortia have registered initial interest in buying all or part of the European Union's largest steel plant, Ilva, the company said on Wednesday.
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During the Equis sale process, many bidders had formed consortia to divide up the portfolio as some were keen to only buy certain assets, and the total acquisition size was large.
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Israel estimates 2,137 billion cubic meters and 6.6 billion barrels of oil are waiting to be found in the blocks and hopes to chose two or three foreign consortia to drill.
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Mecklenburg emphasised that on top of the satellites, Copernicus comprises data from other complementary missions and brings together consortia of users to turn the information collected into the different services offered.
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In collaboration with University of Maryland A. J. Clark School of Engineering, Children's National leads one of the five FDA-funded consortia, dubbed the National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation.
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BUENOS AIRES, April 24 (Reuters) - Argentina received 32 bids from 10 consortia to carry out road projects through public-private partnerships (PPPs), a government official said in a presentation on Tuesday.
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"We will go in selectively," Parente said at an event in Rio de Janeiro, adding that Petrobras would form consortia with other firms to bid for blocks that require big investments.
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Distributed ledger technology, or blockchain, may provide a means to streamline some of these processes, and a number of banking consortia around the world are working on ways of doing so.
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The auction was widely considered a failure, as both blocks were purchased by consortia dominated by state-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA, which already had significant overlapping production rights in the area.
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Then there are the consortia that have allowed financial institutions to research blockchain applications together, such as R3, whose members include BNY Mellon (BK), State Street (STT) and BNP Paribas (BNPQY).
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Today, biotech companies are developing new gene therapies, and international consortia are addressing the feasibility and ethics of making changes to human genomes that could be passed down to succeeding generations.
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Thyssenkrupp now plans to let the two consortia battle it out in a final round, hoping they will raise their bids to beyond the roughly 16 billion euros offered so far.
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The consortia pre-qualified and registered to bid include BP and Statoil; BP, Statoil and Total; Chevron and Pemex; Chevron, Pemex and Inpex; Chevron, Pemex and ONGC Videsh; China Offshore Oil Corp.
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In Hong Kong, affiliates of Alibaba Group and Xiaomi Corp, and consortia led by Standard Chartered PLC and BOC Hong Kong Holdings were among those who won the digital-only banking licenses.
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The reservoir unitization regulation will establish the need to nominate a single operator to produce oil in shared reservoirs even keeping two separate companies or consortia for each one of the blocks.
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None of the 26 companies and consortia that have registered for Mexico's auction have confirmed whether they would bid, nor given details on which of the oil and gas blocks they favored.
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The ailing conglomerate said it would focus negotiations on two private equity consortia: one consisting of Blackstone , Carlyle and the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board and one led by Advent and Cinven.
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In Mexico, 14 firms and 22 consortia composed of majors and medium-size companies qualified to bid in this week's auction, which will offer 35 blocks in the Gulf of Mexico's shallow waters.
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France awarded tenders in 2012 for a combined offshore capacity of 2,000 MW, representing investment of about 7 billion euros, to two consortia, one led by EDF and one by Spanish utility Iberdrola.
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Either alone or in consortia, Pemex won seven blocks of the 16 areas awarded by Mexico's CNH oil regulator and Italy's Eni was among the foreign firms who won the shallow water blocks.
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Under rules set up for Brazil's pre-salt oil play, consortia vie for blocks by offering the most after-cost oil to the Brazilian government, and agree to pay a fixed signing bonus.
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Consortia wishing to bid on the project can now have a single operator that will be responsible for managing the development, according to the change approved by the regulator, known as the CNH.
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In the final Southeast Basins tender, competition was higher, and the oil regulator awarded all eight of the shallow-water blocks it tendered to consortia including Total, Eni, Royal Dutch Shell and Pemex.
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Meanwhile, Finland's Kone slid 4.6% as it dropped out of the auction for the 16-billion-euro elevator unit of Thyssenkrupp after the German conglomerate shortlisted two private equity consortia for the sale.
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SUITORS LINE UP Suitors are: * Kone has submitted a 17 billion euro non-binding bid, including a roughly 3-billion break fee, beating three private equity consortia whose offers were between 13-16 billion.
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Ten interested companies or consortia, including some of Europe's leading offshore wind developers, have been shortlisted to submit bids by a March 220 deadline, although one has pulled out, according to three industry sources.
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In 2012, two consortia, one led by French state-owned utility EDF and one by Spanish utility Iberdrola, won tenders for combined offshore capacity of 2,000 MW, representing investment of about 7 billion euros.
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DEWA didn't name the other bidders, but sources previously told Reuters that China's Jinko Solar, France's EDF and Saudi Arabia's ACWA Power were among companies either bidding alone or as part of different consortia.
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What to watch: The business opportunities presented by solid-electrolyte technology, in addition to its safety benefits, have inspired the U.K., the EU and Japan to initiate consortia to capitalize on its economic potential.
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Two consortia remain in the race: Blackstone, Carlyle and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board are competing against Advent and Cinven, who are supported by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Germany's RAG Stiftung.
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Two consortia remain in the race: Blackstone, Carlyle and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board are competing with Advent and Cinven, who are supported by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Germany's RAG Stiftung.
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Two consortia, one led by French telecoms group and former monopoly Orange, the other by rival SFR, tried to develop an alternative to U.S. services at a total investment cost of 450 million euros.
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Economy Minister Altmaier has said there were interested parties for several consortia on battery cell production and that he expected the first concrete investment decisions at the end of the first quarter of 2019.
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The cash-strapped conglomerate said it would focus on negotiations with two private equity consortia: one consisting of Blackstone, Carlyle and the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board and one led by Advent and Cinven .
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The cash-strapped conglomerate said it would focus on negotiations with two private equity consortia: one consisting of Blackstone, Carlyle and the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board and another led by Advent and Cinven .
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Thabametsi, situated in South Africa's northern Limpopo province, and Khanyisa located in Mpumalanga province, are backed by local consortia and developers from Korea, Japan and Saudi Arabia, including Marubeni and Saudi Arabian power company ACWA.
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In May 2014, France awarded a 4 billion euro tender for 13,000 megawatts of offshore wind to French utility Engie, after a 2012 tender awarded 2,000 megawatts to consortia led by EDF and Spain's Iberdrola.
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In Hong Kong, affiliates of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Xiaomi Corp, and consortia led by Standard Chartered PLC and BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd were among those who won the digital-only banking licenses.
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Many large companies and industry consortia have teamed up to develop standards and technology to make it easier for enterprises to use the Ethereum code, hoping it can help them streamline some of their processes.
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"We can say that of these six blocks that we won (in consortia) in two of them we will be the operator and in the other four our partners will be the operators," said Escalera.
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In Hong Kong, affiliates of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Xiaomi Corp, and consortia led by Standard Chartered PLC and BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd were among those who won the digital-only banking licences.
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GasPort also plan to build another LNG terminal in Pakistan, but is facing stiff competition from several other consortia battling to establish a foothold in one of the fastest-growing LNG markets in the world.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Three consortia of Australian and international funds have submitted bids for a 50-year lease of the Port of Melbourne, Australia's biggest shipping container terminal, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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The new online-only banks include those set up by consortia led by affiliates of e-commerce and payments powerhouse Alibaba, insurer PingAn, and smartphone maker Xiaomi, as well as Bank of China Hong Kong.
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Another difference to pre-crisis combinations is that most of the consortia only consist of two sponsors, which makes governance issues much easier to navigate, although this may change if European corporates shed larger businesses.
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The two consortia bidding for Thyssenkrupp's 16 billion euro elevator division have signed a fair owner agreement, a key demand by labour union IG Metall to protect jobs, the union and a company spokesman said.
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Those companies competing for the job include two consortia, U.S.-based Bechtel with Italy's Techint, and Australia's WorleyParsons with U.S.-based Jacobs Engineering Group, as well as U.S.-based KBR and France's Technip bidding individually.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois owes a handful of financial consortia more than $118 million under an obscure program intended to speed up overdue payments to the cash-strapped state's vendors, an analysis of state records shows.
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Given the nascent nature of blockchain technology, corporations and consortia around the globe are starting to invest in and partner with startups that are building proofs of concept in order to test solutions prior to commercialization.
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To get into the biggest deals, many SWFs co-invest with peers, and consortia comprising SWFs and major infrastructure funds - such as the one that bought a majority stake in Britain's gas pipe network - are typical.
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Under terms of the offer, prospective bidders, companies or consortia, must not have more than a 20 percent stake in another airport within 450 kilometres of Nikola Tesla, with passenger numbers above 1 million in 2016.
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MEXICO CITY, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Shares in Mexican builder ICA jumped more than 8 percent on Wednesday ahead of an announcement on which consortia are bidding for a contract to build Mexico's futuristic new airport terminal.
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The sale, potentially Europe's biggest private equity transaction in 13 years, is entering its final stretch, with two buyout consortia in a neck-and-neck race to buy what is the world's fourth-largest lift maker.
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Two consortia are battling it out: Blackstone, Carlyle and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board on one side and Advent and Cinven, supported by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Germany's RAG foundation, on the other.
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The sale, potentially Europe's biggest private equity transaction in 13 years, is entering its final stretch, with two buyout consortia in a neck-and-neck race to buy what is the world's fourth-largest lift maker.
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Two consortia comprising Apollo Global Management in tandem with Credito Fondiario on one side and Cerberus Capital Management in tandem with Cerved on the other were also in the running for the sale, dubbed "Beyond the clouds".
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Three people familiar with the bidding process told Reuters local pension funds IFM Investors and AustralianSuper and Canada's La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) were each part of separate consortia bidding for the stake.
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China's Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical is planning a bid for German generic drugmaker Stada, already the center of a 3.6 billion euro ($3.8 billion) takeover battle between two private equity consortia, two people close to the matter said.
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DE, at the center of a takeover battle between two private equity consortia, has raised its medium-term forecasts, pressing for a higher valuation after telling suitors their 4.7 billion euro ($5 billion) bids were too low.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - India's Vedanta Resources wants U.S. oilfield services companies to set up consortia to help develop the 41 blocks in India acquired this year by its Cairn Oil & Gas unit, the company's chairman said on Thursday.
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Vedanta Chairman Anil Agarwal and Cairn Chief Executive Sudhir Mathur met with executives from 70 services companies this week in Houston to encourage the firms to organize consortia to compete for contracts, Agarwal said in a briefing.
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This move could prove to be a hurdle for the airport's sale, which already attracted three groups including Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings, Atlantia Spa and another three consortia, one of which is led by Macquarie Infrastructure Corp.
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To pre-qualify for the auction, firms or consortia must be able to document technical capability from at least three exploration and production projects between 2011-2015, or total investments of at least $1 billion on such developments.
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Lawyers and executives have been working feverishly in recent weeks to sort out terms of consortia that will place bids on the four blocks available in the TOR area offshore fields with billions of barrels in confirmed reserves.
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Lawyers and executives have been working feverishly in recent weeks to sort out terms of consortia that will place bids on the four blocks available in the TOR area — offshore fields with billions of barrels in confirmed reserves.
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They are also working together on the technology in consortia in order to come up with common standards and systems, with the most notable of these being New York-based R3, which includes most of the world's biggest banks.
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But because antitrust violations can create criminal exposure in the worst of cases and, even in the best of cases, costly government investigations and damages liability, companies should not plunge forward with blockchain consortia without considering potential antitrust risks.
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The buildings sprang up during the first phase of developing the Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ), a 6,200 acre (2,500-hectare) industrial project that is a joint venture between the governments of Myanmar and Japan and some private consortia.
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At a premium of 49 percent over the share price before initial reports emerged that a takeover was on the cards, the offer is widely regarded as attractive, after Stada organised a fiercely competitive auction between two buyout consortia.
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The sums are so big they are also setting up consortia to insure cash storage spaces, responding to banks' growing desire to escape the negative deposit rate introduced by the ECB to encourage banks to lend money, executives said.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 27 (Reuters) - A consortia led by Royal Dutch Shell Plc and including French major Total SA won the right to explore Brazil's pre-salt oil block, named Sul de Gato do Mato, during an auction on Friday.
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"If you could engineer a single strain, or maybe even a consortia of strains that grow together, to manufacture combinations of biologics or antibodies, that could be a very powerful way of producing these drugs at a reasonable cost," Lu said.
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U.S. oil major Chevron, Pemex and Japan's Inpex combined to win a block while Malaysia's Petronas Carigali and private equity backed start-up Sierra Offshore Exploration also featured in two winning consortia, one fronted by U.S. independent Murphy and Britain's Ophir.
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CARACAS/HOUSTON, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Two consortia including Japanese engineering firm JGC Corp and French oil services company Technip have been shortlisted to undertake a roughly $680 million overhaul of Aruba's refinery, according to three sources close to the deal.
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Six of the seven joint ventures to be awarded will require interested oil companies or consortia to offer an additional royalty payment of 15 percent, while the seventh one, known as Giraldas-Sunuapa, calls for a 6 percent additional royalty.
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Ten companies and consortia have made bids to build part of a 297 million euro ($332.9 million) Croatian rail project that will connect one of the country's Adriatic ports with the Hungarian border, Croatian Railways said on Monday.
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Bidders include the consortia of private equity firm Boyu Capital with property developer China Vanke Co Ltd, Hopu Investments with fresh food delivery firm Meicai, and Hillhouse Capital Group with supermarket chain operator Yonghui Superstores Co Ltd, the people said.
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MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Embattled Mexican construction firm ICA on Thursday presented a proposal to build the foundation of a terminal building at Mexico City's new airport, a tender sought by 15 other companies and consortia, Mexico's government airport operator said.
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Petrobras has exercised its preemptive right to three blocks - Sapinhoa, Peroba, and Alto de Cabo Frio Central - meaning it will serve as operator and likely take a 30 percent minimum stake in the consortia behind the winning bids for those areas.
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has extended the deadline for bids for oil and gas exploration until the end of December to give interested companies more time to discuss forming potential consortia, a spokesman said on Monday.
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In order to rebuild its energy supplies, through a series of upstream oil and gas auctions, Mexico has awarded dozens of exploration and production contracts to a number of companies and consortia, which has already led to some significant finds.
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His comments came a day after the deadline for binding bids for Thyssenkrupp Elevator, which Finland's Kone and three private equity consortia are looking to buy in a deal sources say could be worth up to 17 billion euros ($18.6 billion).
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His comments came a day after the deadline for binding bids for Thyssenkrupp Elevator, which Finland's Kone and three private equity consortia are looking to buy in a deal sources say could be worth up to 17 billion euros ($13 billion).
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Not all sectors will find it easy to collaborate in this way, but joining consortia such as the DPC or the Open Preservation Foundation can provide training, information on emerging technologies, standards and tools without having to reinvent the wheel single-handedly.
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The seven consortia are Atlantic Rim and Royal Dutch Shell ; Eni and Lukoil; Murphy, Ophir , Petronas unit PC Carigali and Sierra Offshore Exploration; PC Carigali and Sierra; Statoil, BP and Total; Total and ExxonMobil; and Chevron along with Pemex and Inpex Corp.
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In the short term, it can provide space for the open source ecosystem and private consortia development to continue to flourish, while at the same time providing regulatory clarity in areas such as tax treatment of assets and standards for industrial blockchains.
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FRANKFURT, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Thyssenkrupp has shortlisted three private equity consortia in the auction of its prized 15 billion euro ($16.62 billion) elevator business, people close to the matter said, adding that peer Kone could still submit a bid later this month.
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"We invite the companies, who form consortia to carry out these comprehensive projects, from construction of the facilities, the drilling of wells, laying both marine and onshore pipelines ... and the consortium that offers the best price wins," Romero told reporters late on Thursday.
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Twenty-three companies and consortia that were pre-qualified to bid in this auction have submitted dozens of requests to operate other blocks under the permanent process, Morelli said on Wednesday, and contracts for them could be signed as early as October.
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Three consortia principally made up of China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group); the world's largest oilfield services provider Schlumberger and Argentina's Tecpetrol oil firm; and oilfield service provider Halliburton Co's will in total invest some $1 billion dollars in the first five years of the deal.
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ICA and partners submitted a bid of 7.556 billion Mexican pesos ($406 million) that won the highest number of points under the bidding conditions where 15 other companies and consortia also bid, an official from the airport operator said at an event in Mexico City.
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DUBAI, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has extended the deadline for bids for offshore oil and gas exploration until the end of December to give interested companies more time to discuss forming potential consortia, a spokesman for said on Monday.
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The sources said companies approved for the second round are in talks to create consortia with commodity traders such as Glencore and Vitol, that signed non disclosure agreements at the start of the process and are allowed to join the groups in the binding phase.
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SARAJEVO, July 17 (Reuters) - Five companies, joint ventures and consortia from China, Turkey, Austria and Azerbaijan have submitted bids for the construction of a 100 million euros ($114.66 million) section of a north-to-south highway in Bosnia, a motorways company said on Monday.
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"Through more collaboration, such as AGI researchers pooling their resources to form a consortia, industry-led guidelines and standards, or technical standards and norms, we can hopefully re-engineer this 'race to the bottom' in safety standards, and instead have a 'race to the top,'" said Lannquist.
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While the signing bonuses are fixed, the fields will be awarded to the companies or consortia that offer the highest 'profit oil' the percentage of oil from the respective zones that will go to PPSA, the state agency responsible for managing the oil delivered to the government.
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The George W. Bush years saw a slew of liberal institution-building in media, advocacy, donor consortia, and policy development, an insurgent presidential candidacy championing "the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party," and a notable shift toward both increased party discipline and a more ambitious national policy agenda.
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Tender documents in May last year asked consortia to submit plans to build South Africa's first liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal, gas-fired power plants, storage facilities and transmission pipelines, according to a department of energy memorandum due to be released on Monday and seen by Reuters.
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Indicated 0.4 percent higher Stada, at the centre of a takeover battle between two private equity consortia, postponed a press conference on 2016 results by six days to March 29 to fully take into account a smaller acquisition that will have a single-digit million euro effect on earnings.
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"But if you could engineer a single strain," offers MIT bioengineer Tim Lu in a statement, "or maybe even a consortia of strains that grow together, to manufacture combinations of biologics or antibodies, that could be a very powerful way of producing these drugs at a reasonable cost."
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Now, Chinese construction companies have appeared on a list of 11 companies or consortia that have shown interest in the projects with an estimated cost of 3.6 billion Danish crowns ($595 million), according to Kalaallit Airports, a state-owned company set up to build, own and operate the airports.
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The other companies that will make up exploration consortia include BP, Qatar Petroleum, Tullow Oil , Pluspetrol, Wintershall, Equinor , Eni, Mitsui &Co Ltd and Tecpetrol SA. Offshore exploration could boost the country's reserves, which fell in the last decade due to government regulations that discouraged foreign investment in the energy sector.
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The other companies that will make up exploration consortia in Argentina's Malvinas West basin include BP, Qatar Petroleum, Tullow Oil, Pluspetrol, Wintershall, Equinor, Eni, Mitsui &Co Ltd and Tecpetrol SA. Offshore exploration could boost Argentina's reserves, which fell in the last decade due to regulations that discouraged foreign investment in the energy sector.
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The following details the blocks up for grabs, the companies and consortia pre-qualified and registered to bid, the process by which winners are determined and previous deepwater auction winners: * Among the deepwater contractual areas in the auction, 9 blocks are located in the Perdido Fold Belt that straddles the U.S.-Mexico maritime border.
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Charles G. and David H. Koch announced that they and their consortia of super-wealthy libertarian friends were going to spend nearly $900 million on the 2016 election, more than double the estimated $400 million they spent in the 2012 election and more than the $657 million that Republican Party committees had spent in 2012.
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The study says the government should set up a central repository for federally- funded university research; school research should be geared toward commercializing products; manufacturers should build long-term relationships with universities, such as Procter & Gamble's link-up with the University of Cincinnati; and public-private research consortia should focus on developing industrywide solutions.
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BERLIN/FRANKFURT, Jan 22020 (Reuters) - The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks on Tuesday: Thyssenkrupp shortlisted three private equity consortia in the auction of its prized 230 billion euro ($20.9 billion) elevator business, people close to the matter said, and peer Kone could submit a bid later this month.
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"With Fairphone 1 we had our own supply chains, with Fairphone 2 we were more and more exploring incorporating into scalable solutions for other parties as well, and with Fairphone 3 we already have consortia — for example the cobalt we're doing together with Royal Philips and Signify… and some other big brands I can't mention," van Abel tells us.
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Stanford is part of an initiative of a number of university consortia and the Library of Congress to figure out what are we going to do about this because that paper in your basement was readable when it was made and it's going to be readable 100 years from now if it gets out of your basement.
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Jolla says the Chinese consortium will be aiming to invest $250M in developing a Sailfish ecosystem for the country, though it's not specifying exactly who is backing the consortia at this point, nor over what timeframe the investment will happen — beyond saying one of its early investors, a local private equity investor Shan Li, will take a "leading role" in building it up.
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Specifically, nonprofit groups working with consortia of three or more states will be able to get grants to: They are also claiming partial credit for a slew of state-level deregulatory initiatives and pointing to an April executive order that aims at ensuring that ex-convicts who've returned to civilian life aren't unduly burdened in their ability to get jobs in licensed professions.
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A gas pipeline owned by state-owned oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA may receive binding proposals this month from consortia led by French energy group Engie SA , Australia's Macquarie Bank Ltd and United Arab Emirates sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Development Co. Volatility before Brazilian presidential elections in October may affect capital markets transactions such as initial public offerings, but bankers expect a limited impact on M&A.
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And as Brexit actually unfolds, it could get worse: A November 2017 study performed by the School of International Futures for the UK's Royal Society describes a possible post-secession United Kingdom where universities compete for a shrinking pool of skilled workers, projects that used to receive EU funding wither, researchers receive fewer invites to join consortia and attend conferences, and overseas collaboration is limited.
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However, only two areas attracted bidders, both of which were consortia led by Brazil's state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA. While some officials and oil executives called it a qualified success, most deemed it a failure, blaming the lack of global interest on extremely complex bidding rules that would have forced any winner into difficult negotiations with Petrobras, as Petroleo Brasileiro is commonly known.
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