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  • CAIRN RESEARCH: CREDIT SUISSE RATING: UNDERPERFORM CMP: Rs 309 Credit Suisse increases the target price of Cairn

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

  • Agarwal's parallel move to spend £4. 3bn on a 51% stake in Cairn India, controlled by Edinburgh-based Cairn Energy, has upset some investors, worried that the company has no experience in oil and is taking on too much debt.

    Vedanta plots London float for Zambian copper offshoot Richard Wachman 2010

  • Cairn is undergoing a restructuring which, once complete, will leave Greenland as its only region to explore for oil and gas.

    Cairn Energy fails to find enough oil off the coast of Greenland Tim Webb 2010

  • Shares in Cairn Energy fell by more than 7% after the oil and gas group said that its controversial drilling programme off the coast of Greenland had come to an end without making a commercial discovery.

    Cairn Energy fails to find enough oil off the coast of Greenland Tim Webb 2010

  • ONGC said Oct. 21 that it had asked Cairn Energy to provide full details of the proposed sale of its stake in Cairn India, and the financial strength, technical capability and prior experience of Vedanta in the oil and gas sector.

    Cairn Responds to Vedanta Deal Eric Yep 2010

  • Analysts at Liberum Capital expect the group's debt to soar to £7. 5bn (higher than Vedanta's £6bn market valuation) once the firm gets Indian government approval to acquire a controlling stake in Cairn India's oil operations, in a deal under discussion since August.

    Vedanta plots London float for Zambian copper offshoot Richard Wachman 2010

  • Dr. Stewart, Professor of Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax -- Editor-in-Chief of the Dalhousie Review, and author of many books-was born in Cairn Castle, Country Antrim, Ireland.

    A Closer Empire Unity 1944

  • Greenpeace has criticized Cairn, which is the only company drilling in the area, for not taking the extra precautions needed to avoid accidents such as the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

    Greenpeace Activists Climb Oil Rig Off Greenland Associated Press 2011

  • The following is selected on account of the eminence of its hero, Gilbert Rule, the founder and first Principal of the University of Edinburgh: He was travelling on the dreary road across the Grampians, called the Cairn o 'Mont, on which stood a lone desolate inn.

    The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

  • So Ciabhan went on till he came to the Strand of the Cairn, that is called now the Strand of the Strong Man, between Dun Sobairce and the sea.

    Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

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