Three Japanese groups and GDF Suez of France take stakes in a $10bn LNG export facility in Louisiana

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's nuclear safety regulator will recommend reopening two GDF Suez nuclear reactors closed last year over safety concerns, newspaper Le Soir reported on Friday, citing a person familiar with the regulator's report.

Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), GDF SUEZS.A. (GSZ.FP), Mitsubishi Corporation (TSE 8058; LSE MBC) and Mitsui & Co.,Ltd.

MONTEVIDEO, May 14 (Reuters) - Uruguay awarded French gas and power group GDF Suez SA a contract to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification plant at an estimated cost of $1.125 billion, the government said on Tuesday.

Albert Frère’s investment company will use the proceeds from the sale of part of its stake in GDF Suez to look for new opportunities

John Wood Group PLC (WG.LN), an international energy services company, Monday said it has been awarded a multi-million dollar engineering contract for the Bonaparte Liquefied Natural Gas project in Australia by operator, GDF Suez S.A. (GSZ.FR).

Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the Itochu Corporation, with GDF Suez of France, will build Turkey’s second nuclear power plant at an estimated cost of $22 billion.    

The chairman and chief executive officer of GDF Suez (GSZ.FR) said Thursday that long-term visibility on energy tariffs and regulation in France is needed to keep up investments in the industry.

PARIS, April 22 (Reuters) - French gas and power utility group GDF Suez denied a union's claim that it is planning to cut more than 4,000 jobs over the next three years.

PARIS, April 22 (Reuters) - French gas and power utilitygroup GDF Suez denied a union's claim that it isplanning to cut more than 4,000 jobs over the next three years.

PARIS, April 16 (Reuters) - French gas and power utility GDFSuez expects strong demand for power in the Middle Eastwill allow it to sell thousands of megawatts worth of newgas-fired power stations in the region, a company executive wasquoted as sayin

MILAN, April 4 (Reuters) - Italian rail technology company Ansaldo STS and GDF Suez's unit Cofely Ineo won a contract worth 120 million euros related to the new high speed railway in Morocco.

* Petrofac and Progressive Energy-GDF Suez projects dropped

By Pierre Sookiew:GDF Suez (GDFZY.PK) reported its FY-12 results in line with previous guidance and expectations. - Revenues rose 7% to €97 billion ($126 billion) - EBITDA +3% to €17 billion ($22 billion), strong contribution of gas and LNG busi

GDF Suez is committed to sustaining its dividend. But Europe's largest utility is going to find squaring the circle only gets harder.

PARIS, Feb 28 (Reuters) - French utility GDF Suez wrote down 2 billion euros ($2.6 billion) worth of uneconomicgas power plants in Europe and said that nearly all its newinvestments will focus on energy-hungry emerging markets.

The French utility reported a sharp drop in 2012 net profit as continued weakness in European energy markets prompted a massive impairment charge on its assets in the region.

PARIS, Feb 1 (Reuters) - France's biggest trade union calledfor a strike on Feb. 4 at six units of gas utility GDF Suez to protest against job cuts.

AMSTERDAM, Jan 23 (Reuters) - French companies, includingpart state-owned EDF, GDF Suez and Thales, are increasingly usingDutch holdings to cut theirtax bills, Dutch paper Het Financieele Dagblad reported, citingits own research.

FRANKFURT/PARIS, Jan 23 (Reuters) - GDF Suez,Europe's biggest utility, has scrapped the sale of a stake inits German gas storage unit, as bids came in too low, two peoplefamiliar with the matter...

FRANKFURT/PARIS, Jan 23 (Reuters) - GDF Suez,Europe's biggest utility, has scrapped the sale of a stake inits German gas storage unit, as bids came in too low, two peoplefamiliar with the matter...

AMSTERDAM, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Big French companies,including part state-owned EDF, GDF Suez andThales, are increasingly usingholdings in theNetherlands to reduce taxation, Dutch paper Het FinancieeleDagblad reported on Wednesday, citing its own resea

GDF Suez subsidiary Storengy plans to create 20 caverns to store pressurised gas but Salt Union, operator of nearby Winsford mine, has raised concerns

German utility E.ON and France's GDF Suez have agreed to sell their combined 49% stake in Slovak gas group Slovensky Plynarensky Priemysel for $3.48 billion.

The hold the French state keeps on GDF Suez and EDF is hindering their performance – and their share prices – relative to European peers

PARIS, Jan 11 (Reuters) - GDF Suez, Europe'sbiggest utility, is keen to export American shale gas and hopesthe Obama administration will soon deliver licenses to exportthe gas, GDF Suez chief executive Gerard Mestrallet said onFriday.

By Pierre Sookiew:On December 6, GDF Suez (GDFZY.PK) held an Investor Day and announced it expected to lose around €185 million ($241 million) in EBITDA this year due to the regulated energy tariffs set by the French government. Partial price incre

French utility GDF Suez was battered by investors after it said its earnings will be dragged down by the weak European economy and tight restrictionsin its home market.

GDF Suez considers itself more internationally minded than the average European utility. But it is still Europe that will drag the French energy group down for the next two years.

PARIS (Reuters) - Shares in GDF Suez , Europe's biggest utility, dropped after it warned sluggish demand for electricity and gas in the recession-hit continent would hit profits, leading it to slash...

* Group sees 2013, 2014 profit below analysts' expectations

GDF Suez said it would loosen the ties to its water business as it focuses more of its financial firepower on its energy activities.

French group warned of harsh conditions in its European markets as it unveiled plans to cut costs, reduce debt and step up a push on growing markets

PARIS, Dec 5 (Reuters) - French utility GDF Suez onThursday may move to dissolve a pact binding water and wastecompany Suez Environnement's main shareholders in abid to cut GDF's own debt burden,...

French power company GDF Suez SA (GSZ.FR) is close to seal a deal to buy the liquefied natural gas unit from Spain's oil company Repsol SA (REP.MC), French website Wansquare said Friday, citing banking sources.

PARIS/AMSTERDAM--An explosion early Thursday at a 600-megawatt-capacity power plant in Nijmegen, Eastern Netherlands, prompted police to briefly warn the public to remain indoors with windows and doors closed, but GDF Suez SA (GSZ.FR) said no one was

GDF Suez's "excellent" business risk profile is supported by the group's scale and diversification as one of the world's largest gas and electricity utilities and its strong competitive position in most of the markets where it operates. Our assessmen

By Pierre Sookiew:GDF Suez (GDFZY.PK) is the world's largest independent power producer. It operates liquefied natural gas facilities, energy efficiency services and environmental services. Present in over 60 countries, it employs roughly 219,000 peo

PARIS, Oct 31 (Reuters) - French utility GDF Suez posted a 5.8 percent rise in nine-month core profits thanks tohigher gas tariffs in France, and stuck to its full-year goalsdespite the shutdown of Belgian nuclear plants.

Franco-Belgian utility GDF Suez reported Wednesday that its revenues were up 8.4 percent this year so far, driven in part by weather conditions in France and a state decision that will allow the company to recoup money lost in a government-mandated f

French power company GDF Suez (GSZ.FR), through its subsidiary Tractebel Energia, Wednesday said it inaugurated a new hydroelectric power plant at Estreito in Brazil.

PARIS, Oct 17 (Reuters) - France's GDF Suez isconsidering a bid for Repsol's liquefied natural gas(LNG) assets, but has not submitted an offer yet, ChiefExecutive Gerard Mestrallet said on Wednesday.

BRUSSELS, Oct 10 (Reuters) - GDF Suez' Belgian unitElectrabel said on Wednesday that it has closed its 350 MWcombined-cycle gas turbine plant at Saint-Ghislain, near theFrench border, after an explosion earlier in the day.

WARSAW (Reuters) - GDF Suez would demand compensation from Poland if the country brings in a new renewables law cutting support for green energy, Chief Executive of GDF's Polish unit Grzegorz Gorski was quoted saying on Wednesday.