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London open: Banks, supermarkets give FTSE 100 a lift

Decent gains from banking and supermarket stocks gave the FTSE 100 a boost on Monday morning as the UK's benchmark index continues to recover after hitting a 10-month low last week. The Footsie was trading 0.4% higher at 6,554 early on, rising for the second straight day after falling to 6,446.39 la

UPDATE 2-Dragon Oil plans to bid around $800 mln for Petroceltic

* Dragon Oil plans to bid 230 pence a share * Bid is 35 pct above Petroceltic's recent average price * Petroceltic says would accept if conditions met (Adds share price, Dragon Oil spokesman, details, background) By Karolin Schaps LONDON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - London-listed

Petroceltic International gets takeover bid from Dragon Oil

Oil & gas explorer Petroceltic International has received a £491.6m takeover approach from rival Dragon Oil. Petroceltic, which has exploration licenses in Algeria, Tunisia and Italy and production activities off Kinsale in Ireland, said Dragon Oil had proposed to offer 230p per Petroceltic sh

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Petroceltic says received takeover proposal from Dragon Oil

LONDON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Irish oil producer Petroceltic International said on Monday it had received an acquisition proposal by rival oil firm Dragon Oil. "The board of Petroceltic announces that it is in detailed discussions regarding a possible offer to be made by Dragon Oil," the compan

Dragon Oil Makes GBP492 Million Agreed Takeover Bid For Petroceltic

Dragon Oil And Enel Win Two Blocks In Algerian Licensing Round

UPDATE 1-Algeria awards four of 31 oil, gas fields in auction

* First auction since 2011 * Security concerns after early 2013 Amenas gas plant attack * Hydrocarbons law passed in 2013 offers incentives (Recasts with results of bidding) By Hamid Ould Ahmed and Patrick Markey ALGIERS, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Algeria awarded four of 31 oi

Algeria awards four of 31 oil, gas fields in auction -officials

ALGIERS, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Algeria awarded four of 31 oil and gas field blocks on offer in an auction on Tuesday with all four won by foreign consortiums, officials said. Royal Dutch Shell and Spain's Repsol won the Boughezoul area in the north of the country while Shell and Norway's Stat

Dragon Oil Says First Discovery Made At Block 9, Iraq Field

Kuwait Energy, Dragon Oil find oil in Iraq

LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Oil explorers Kuwait Energy and Dragon Oil have discovered oil in an exploration well in northern Basra in Iraq, the companies said on Wednesday. They were able to flow around 2,000 barrels of oil per day from the Faihaa-1 well in the Mishrif formatio

Dragon Oil Pretax Profit Jumps On Higher Oil Volumes And Prices

UPDATE 1-Dragon Oil raises interim dividend payment after strong first half

* H1 operating profit up 20 pct to $388.5 million * Revenue up 11 percent at $547 million * Interim dividend up a third at 20 cents per share (Adds details, CEO comment) LONDON, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Dragon Oil will pay shareholders an interim dividend of 20 cents per share, a thi

Dragon Oil raises interim dividend payment after strong first half

LONDON, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Dragon Oil will pay shareholders an interim dividend of 20 cents per share following a strong performance in the first half of the year, the Turkmenistan-focused oil explorer said on Tuesday. The company reported a 20 percent rise in operating profit over the first

Dragon Oil sales rise 4pct in first half of year

LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) - Turkmenistan-focused oil explorer Dragon Oil sold 4 percent more oil over the first half of the year than in 2013 despite a slight year-on-year drop in output. The independent oil producer sold 5.9 million barrels of crude oil over the first six months of the yea