Imperial Energy Corporation Plc said on Monday that it received a takeover approach which may lead to an offer being made for the firm.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has awarded the contract to manage nuclear sites at Sellafield to a consortium including U.S. company URS Corp's Washington International unit, AMEC and France's Areva.

Centrica Plc said on Wednesday that it agreed to acquire interests in a package of non-operated gas and oil assets in Norway for $375 million (£190 million). The agreement will mean Centrica will acquire interests in the Heimdal area of the Norwegian North Sea.

The fate of the second biggest foreign investment in Russia hangs in the balance amid signs of a shifting mood in the Kremlin which may have wrong-footed investors and one of the world's biggest oil companies.

BHP Billiton has signed a deal with Chinese steelmaker Baosteel. The mining firm said it would increase its prices by as much as 96.5 per cent for the deal.

Australian energy firm Origin has recommended that its shareholders reject a A$13.8 billion (£6.7 billion) takeover bid from BG Group. Origin said that the offer did not take into account the full extent of its coal seam gas reserves.

On Thursday it was announced that BP had signed to become the latest partner of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

BHP Billiton said on Thursday that its unsolicited bid for fellow miner Rio Tinto has been cleared by US antitrust authorities. The miner said that the clearance meant it had satisfied a part of US antitrust law requirements.

Thames Water has said that 150 years after the "Great Stink", caused by sewage in the river Thames, "the next phase of the evolution of the sewers is about to begin", with the creation of a new giant intercepting sewer from Hammersmith to Beckton.

Forth Ports Plc and Scottish and Southern Energy Plc (SSE) announced on Monday a joint venture to develop renewable energy projects around Forth Ports in Scotland and England.

Gas producer BG Group went hostile on Tuesday, putting a A$13.8 billion (6.7 billion pounds) bid for Australia's Origin Energy direct to Origin shareholders, as it seeks to boost its position in Asia-Pacific's fast-growing gas market. BG's all-cash bid, which values Origin at A$15.50 ...

Centrica Plc, the owner of British Gas, said on Thursday that it was continuing to trade in line with its guidance provided on the 12 May.

Rio Tinto dismissed concerns that it could be barred from digging a huge iron ore mine in Africa, as it builds its defence against a $180 billion (92 billion pounds) bid from bigger rival BHP Billiton.

A report on Monday said that the Russian partners in oil unit TNK-BP offered to swap their 50 per cent share in the company in exchange for 7.6 per cent of shares in BP. The report was in Russian newspaper Kommersant.

A four-day strike over pay by hundreds of Shell fuel tanker drivers began on Friday morning after last-ditch talks broke down.

French energy firm EDF is said to be willing to increase its current £11 billion takeover bid for British Energy, so long as the company recommends its offer quickly, reports say.

Mining firm Eurasian Natural Resources Corp (ENRC) said on Wednesday that positive trends in the first quarter of the year had continued into the second quarter.

On Monday British Energy Plc said that none of the takeover proposals it had currently received were above its share price as of 6 June 2008. The nuclear power company said that none of the proposals represented value for shareholders.

Mining group Kazakhmys has said that it has no intention of making a full offer for fellow miner Eurasian Natural Resources, after increasing its stake in the company to 22 per cent.