• Shell, BP and Total, Europe’s three largest oil companies, are among bidders for a project to develop sour gas deposits in the United Arab Emirates.
• Shell agreed to buy the 44 gasoline stations in Malaysia operated by ConocoPhillips, expanding its retail network in the South-east Asian nation.
• Gazprom, the world’s biggest natural gas producer, has no plans to sell the fuel directly to UK homes.
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