PARIS, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Below are company-related news and leading stories from French and Benelux newspapers which could have an impact on the region's markets or individual stocks.

The offshore group said third-quarter revenues rose 3.1 percent to 246.8 million euros.

The group said it had been awarded a lump sum contract by ENI US Operating for the Appaloosa development project in the Gulf of Mexico. This project consists of the tie-back of the Appaloosa well located in Mississippi Canyon, 145 nautical miles (268 kilometers) offshore Mobile, Alabama at a water depth of approximately 2,825 feet (860 meters), to the Corral platform.

Eureop's second-biggest insurer sought to double its bet on Asian growth and unveiled a planned $7 billion buy-out of its Asian assets and sale of its Australian assets to local rival AMP Ltd. In order to help fund the buyout of the Asian assets, AXA SA said it would seek to raise 2 billion euro ($3 billion) through a right issue.

Credit Agricole will name Jean-Paul Chifflet as new chief executive of France's largest bank by branches next year, a source within the bank said on Friday, confirming a report on the website of Les Echos.
"It's a given," said the source, adding that Chifflet, the 60-year-old vice-president of the board and general manager of a local regional branch, had only very recently been picked.
Newspaper Le Figaro said on its website that the bank's chairman, Rene Carron, would later step down and make way for Jean-Marie Sander, also an executive from within Credit Agricole. No one at the bank was available to comment.

Private equity fund CVC has pulled out of talks with General Electric about a possible joint bid for the power and transmission unit of France's Areva , a French financial news service reported on Sunday. Spokesmen for the firms involved could not immediately be reached.
State-owned nuclear reactor group Areva is selling its T&D unit and has selected Japan's Toshiba, a consortium led by U.S.-based GE, and French partners Alstom and Schneider Electric as possible buyers.
Binding offers are expected for Nov. 9 ahead of an Areva decision for Nov. 16.

Third quarter sales at French public works group Eiffage

slipped 1.1 percent as construction of new offices in France remained weak.
Analysts at Societe Generale and Deutsche Bank had been expecting a small increase for the quarter. The decline was less than the 2.1 percent year-on-year drop of the second quarter.

General Electric Co. and Comcast Corp have agreed on a valuation of around $30 billion for a joint venture between NBC Universal and Comcast, ironing out what has been a key obstacle in talks so far, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
The resolution of that issue brings the parties one step closer to an agreement, but French media conglomerate Vivendi , which owns 20 percent of NBC Universal, has not yet agreed to a deal, the source said.

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