The FINANCIAL -- Statoil has acquired a 30.625% working interest in the Pitu licence in Baffin Bay. The licence was awarded to Cairn Energy during the first Baffin Bay licensing round in December 2010,according to Statoil.

The FINANCIAL -- The first 2013 Corvette 427 Convertible Collector Edition – the fastest and most capable convertible in Corvette’s history – sold for $600,000 in the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale collector car auction Saturday,according to General Motors.

The FINANCIAL -- Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee moderated a meeting today at the Company's headquarters. The meeting was focused on the South Stream project implementation,according to Gazprom.

The FINANCIAL -- The Gazprom headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company's Management Committee and Peter Voser, Chief Executive Officer of Royal Dutch Shell ,according to Gazprom.

The FINANCIAL -- Gazprom has elected Vyacheslav Mikhalenko, Chief Engineer – First Deputy Director General of Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk as Director General of Gazprom Invest Vostok.Vyacheslav Mikhalenko was born in October 1965 in the Bryansk Oblast, according to Gazprom.

The FINANCIAL -- Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company's Management Committee, Vice President of the Russian Football Union took part in the celebrations held in Saint Petersburg dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the RFU establishment and its affiliation to FIFA, according to Gazprom.

The FINANCIAL -- Chevron Corporation announced that it has filed an appeal seeking review by Ecuador's National Court of Justice of the adverse appellate judgment issued against the company in early 2012 by a panel of three temporary judges in the environmental lawsuit in Ecuador, according to Chevron Corporation.

The FINANCIAL -- The Mercedes-Benz Unimog is in all-year-round use in the Austrian Vorarlberg region: snow clearing, road and crash barrier cleaning as well as grass verge mowing duties have been undertaken for many years now with the help of the "Universal-Motor-Gerät", or "Universal Motor Device", commonly known as the Unimog, according to Daimler.

The FINANCIAL -- The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy today, 20 January, gave the green light to the plan for development and operation of Skuld, a fast-track development tied in to the Norne field in the Norwegian Sea.Skuld is Statoil’s fifth approved fast-track PDO, and the largest fast-track development so far, according to Statoil.