NORDIC INVESTMENT BANK GIVES LOAN TO NESTE
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) said in
a statement it granted Finland's state-owned oil company Neste
Oy <Neoy.He> a one hundred million German mark loan to acquire
shares in Sweden's OK Petroleum AB.
    Neste is buying one quarter of the shares in the Swedish
company, whose other shareholders are the Swedish State and a
federation of oil consumers.
    Over 60 pct of the NIB's loans this year have involved the
energy sector.
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