April 12 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 0930 GMT on Wednesday:
** Russia's government has approved the sale of Shell's SHEL.L former 27.5% stake in the Sakhalin-2 energy project to Russian energy firm Novatek NVTK.MM for 94.8 billion roubles ($1.16 billion), a government order showed.
** Australian retailer Wesfarmers Ltd (WES) said it has sold its remaining 2.8% stake in supermarket chain Coles Group (COL) .
** Newmont Corp's NEM.N A$29.4 billion ($19.6 billion) offer for Australia's Newcrest Mining (NCM) faces hurdles including winning approvals from shareholders and regulators, and the full backing of the target's board, analysts said.
** Ahli Bank in Oman ABOB.OM said its board disapproved a merger offer from Oman's second-biggest lender Bank Dhofar BKDB.OM .
** Industrial conglomerate Emerson Electric EMR.N is in advanced talks to acquire National Instruments Corp NATI.O in a deal that could value the measurement equipment maker at about $8 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
** Veritas Capital ended talks with Carlyle Group Inc CG.O to buy a 50% stake in private healthcare technology firm Cotiviti Inc on valuation grounds, a source familiar with the matter said.
** Glencore Plc GLEN.L on Tuesday modified its $22.5 billion all-share takeover bid for Teck Resources Ltd's TECKb.TO to include up to $8.2 billion in cash, but Teck's board called it "largely unchanged" and analysts said it will need to rise further still.
** Private jet service Flexjet Inc said on Tuesday it has terminated the planned merger with billionaire Todd Boehly's black-check firm Horizon Acquisition Corporation II HZON.A .
** Carrefour Brasil CRFB3.SA , the local arm of French retail giant Carrefour CARR.PA , said on Tuesday it reached an agreement to reduce the price of its acquisition of Grupo Big by up to 1 billion reais ($199.7 million).
