Bloomberg Oil climbed as a global squeeze on refined products continued to pull fuel prices higher with Russian diesel exports falling sharply. West Texas Intermediate rises 4.1% and eked out a weekly gain of 0.7% after a series of tumultuous trading sessions where lowered liquidity exacerbated price moves. Diesel exports from Russia dropped in April from their prewar level ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Federal Supreme Council on Saturday unanimously elected His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan as President of the United Arab Emirates. The council held a meeting on Saturday at Al Mushrif Palace in Abu Dhabi, chaired by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, received condolences on the passing of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, from His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai; HH Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme ...

  Bloomberg Six months ago, UK North Sea oil and gas faced the bleakest outlook in its 50-year history. The government was focused on hosting the COP 26 climate talks and environmentalists were close to killing off one of the country’s largest oilfield developments, called Cambo. An industry that had excelled at prolonging its lifespan was at risk of sudden ...

Bloomberg The Texas grid operator called on residents to conserve energy after six generation facilities tripped offline amid hot weather, prompting power prices to spike. The power-plant failures resulted in a loss of about 2,900 megawatts of electricity, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (Ercot) said. That’s enough power for about 580,000 homes and businesses. Natural-gas fired plants make up ...

Bloomberg South Africa will need to attract investment of $14 billion if it is to develop a substantial green hydrogen industry, the head of the government’s climate finance task team said. An initial amount of $1 billion would be needed to create an industry that could export 20,000 tons of the climate friendly fuel annually and a further $13 billion ...

  Bloomberg Petroleos Mexicanos’ beleaguered mega-refinery project in Dos Bocas could run at least $4.7 billion over budget with just months to go before its grand opening. Pemex, as the state-owned oil company is known, has budgeted $12.5 billion for the project through the end of 2022, and is expected to spend some $2 billion more on the project, according ...

Bloomberg Natural gas prices in Europe declined the most in a month with majors buyers in the region saying they can ride out the latest threat to Russian supply. Benchmark futures fell 9.2%, and posted a weekly loss. Russian shipments through Ukraine have dropped this week, but stayed broadly stable — near the lowest since late April — based on ...

Vice President Kamala Harris voted six times to break Senate ties this week. That brings her total to 23 ties broken, a record pace. She’s already third all-time, behind only John C Calhoun (31 from 1825-1832) and John Adams (29 from 1789-1797). What she’s voted on tells an important story about the Senate. None of it has been regular legislation. ...

It’s hard to accept that Tesco Plc boss Ken Murphy deserves the full £3.2 million ($3.9 million) top-up he received in addition to his £1.5 million fixed pay for its last financial year. The award points to a badly designed bonus plan which can pay jumbo rewards on very crude metrics. The one good thing about Murphy’s bonus is that ...