LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) - Top executives from French cognac companies as well as European Union officials on Thursday attended a hearing in Beijing related to China's anti-dumping investigation into EU brandy, the French cognac association said in a statement. The executives and representatives of industry associations firmly reiterated the absence of dumping, the Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac's statement...

04:40 AM EDT, 07/18/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Methanex ( MEOH ) said late Wednesday it has made a joint investment with Entropy, a carbon capture and storage firm, in a Preliminary Front-End Engineering and Design study for carbon capture, utilization and sequestration deployment at its Medicine Hat, Alberta, facility. Under the partnership, the company said Entropy's modular post-combustion carbon capture...

LONDON (Reuters) -Apax Partners, Bain Capital and CVC are each exploring potential bids for SoftwareOne, two people with knowledge of the situation said, three months after the ouster of the Swiss software company's board. Talks with interested funds are ongoing, one of the people said. Four sources mentioned Bain and CVC and two of them also named Apax. SoftwareOne's board...

DUBAI, July 18 (Reuters) - QatarEnergy has signed a deal to acquire a 20% interest in a production sharing contract for an offshore block in Suriname, it said on Thursday, boosting its participation in the nascent oil-producing country. Chevron ( CVX ), the operator of Suriname's offshore block 5, will retain a 40% interest, while Paradise Oil Company, an affiliate...