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Shell to buy BG in a mega deal

Geoff Riley

8th April 2015

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Royal Dutch Shell is to buy BG Group in $69.7 billion takeover - the first mega merger in the oil and gas industry for over a decade.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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