Blackstone Group's Vivint Inc raised USD 540 million to build home power systems. Provo, Utah-based Vivint Inc received USD 540 million to construct home power systems.

Russian oil firm Rosneft signed an agreement with China National Petroleum Corp for the latter to purchase a 49% stake in the Russian oil producer's East Siberian venture.

Oil firm Occidental Petroleum Corp would be selling minority shares in some of its operations to increase shareholder value.

A payment of USD260.7 million was paid to Berkshire Hathaway for the exercise of its warrants from General Electric Co.

The consortium comprising of Indian Oil, ONGC Videsh and Oil India, as well as Repsol SA, would not be exercising the right of pre-emption of the vacated shares in the oil project previously owned by Petronas of Malaysia.

A second project between Dow and ERB has been agreed upon where the power plant would utilize sugar cane residue as fuel for electrical power.

The plan is to raise funds from a share sale of Huaneng Renewables Corp. Wind farm operator from China, Huaneng Renewables Corp, is planning to raise HKD1.

A number of top notch companies have sent their bids to build Mongolia's Tavan Tolgoi Power Plant.

Secured lenders at Texas Competitive Electric Holdings and unsecured bondholders at Energy Future Intermediate Holdings (EFIH) were in a deadlock about their confidentiality agreements due to Energy Future Holdings' USD250 bond debt payments due on November 1.

Tokyo Gas said it would looking at majority stake purchases for mid-sized LNG projects in Southeast Asia or Africa to bring down import costs.