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☆ Oil prices jump on escalating tensions in the Middle East after strike on Iran
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Laura He | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Hong Kong CNN —Oil prices jumped on Friday while Asian markets tumbled, with global investors worrying about an escalation in conflict in the Middle East after explosions were reported near the Iranian city of Isfahan. Iran launched the attack in retaliation for a suspected Israeli strike on its embassy compound in Syria earlier this month. “Israel’s response could determine whether oil supplies are ultimately under threat.”Elsewhere, ongoing oil disruptions remain high, the analysts added. In Hong Kong, PetroChina, Asia’s largest oil and gas supplier, advanced 2.3%. Sinopec, the world’s largest oil refining company by capacity, rose 1.3%.

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A light is seen under a signboard of Cosmo Energy Holdings' Cosmo Oil service station in Tokyo, Japan, December 17, 2015. REUTERS/Yuya Shino/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsCompanies Cosmo Energy Holdings Co Ltd FollowTOKYO, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Japan's Cosmo Energy Holdings (5021.T) could struggle to win shareholder backing for a revised "poison pill" strategy, its chief executive said on Friday, as the company seeks to defend itself from activist investors pursuing a hostile takeover. Japan's third-biggest oil refiner is calling another shareholder vote on Dec. 14 to seek approval to discourage an activist group led by Yoshiaki Murakami from increasing its stake to 24.56% from its current 20%. In June, a previous vote on a poison pill to dilute the activists' stake if they buy more shares without following set procedures succeeded. "We want to ask shareholders whose plans can boost the shareholder value, ours or Murakami-san?"

Persons: Yuya, Yoshiaki Murakami, Shigeru Yamada, Cosmo, Murakami, Yamada, Makiko Yamazaki, Yuka Obayashi, Barbara Lewis Organizations: Cosmo Energy Holdings, Cosmo Oil, REUTERS, Cosmo Energy Holdings Co, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Tokyo, Japan

☆ Japan's Cosmo extends oil production deal with Qatar Energy
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

TOKYO, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Japan's Cosmo Energy Holdings Co Ltd (5021.T) said on Friday it has signed a new agreement with Qatar Energy to continue its operation in the Al-Karkara and A-Structures oil fields, which came into effect after the expiry of the current contract this month. Japan's Qatar Petroleum Development (QPD), 75% owned by Cosmo Energy Exploration & Production and 25% by trading house Sojitz Corp (2768.T), has been developing and producing crude oil in the fields, located offshore Qatar, for 25 years since the signing of the current contract in 1997. Japan's third-biggest oil refiner declined to comment on details of the new agreement, but it is a 5-year agreement, succeeding the development and production sharing agreement signed in Dec. 1997, Qatar Energy said in a separate statement. The fields started production in March 2006, and since then have produced a total of 33.5 million barrels of crude oil, according to Qatar Energy. Cosmo's oil output stood at 45,157 barrels per day in the financial year ended in March 2022, a company spokesman said.

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