Reuters Iraq plans to double the volume of crude it pumps via a pipeline to Turkey to its normal rate of 150,000 barrels per day (bpd) next week, an official at state-run North Oil Company said . The company, which reports to the oil ministry in Baghdad, on Thursday resumed pumping oil from fields it operates in Kirkuk via ...

  Reuters Saudi Arabia will permit foreign institutional investors to buy shares directly in initial public offers, a move that could help the government sell billions of dollars’ worth of stakes in state companies including oil giant Saudi Aramco. New rules published by the Capital Market Authority on Thursday, taking effect at the start of next year, list qualified foreign ...

  Bloomberg Qatar’s demand for oil products, boosted by an expanding airline and a pre-World Cup spending spree, is bucking a trend of slower consumption growth and even contraction in the region as economies slowed on lower oil prices. Average daily consumption of gasoline, jet fuel and other refined products was a record 228,000 barrels per day in the first ...

  Reuters A tanker sent by Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) began to load oil on Thursday at the country’s eastern Zueitina port, after rival forces stationed in the area agreed to let it dock and take the oil to safety, a port official said. The NOC expressed concern earlier this month after reports of possible clashes between the Petroleum ...

Bloomberg The glut of crude oil stored in ships on the North Sea is finally starting to dissipate. Demand for the commodity has increased as traders take advantage of remaining discounts before maintenance begins at the U.K.’s largest oil field. The result: a whittling away at the backlog of floating storage that has persisted for months. The “timing is right” ...

  Shanghai / Bloomberg China Investment Corp., the $814 billion sovereign fund, is leading a Chinese investor group in talks for a multibillion-dollar iron-ore streaming deal with Brazil’s Vale SA, people familiar with the matter said. The consortium is negotiating the potential purchase of a portion of Vale’s future iron-ore output for as long as 30 years, two of the ...

  Bloomberg Origin Energy Ltd., the Australian energy producer and retailer, plans to start the sale of an Australian wind farm project after gauging interest from potential buyers, people with knowledge of the matter said. The Sydney-based company will ask next week for expressions of interest for its planned Stockyard Hill project west of Melbourne, one of the people said, ...

  Bloomberg Australia upheld its decision to block foreign bidders from buying a majority stake in state-owned power network Ausgrid for more than A$10 billion ($7.6 billion), triggering a warning from China that the move will hurt bilateral ties. The deal would go against the national interest, Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison said in a statement on Friday, confirming last week’s ...

  New Delhi / Bloomberg Prime Minister Narendra Modi promoted a deputy governor to lead India’s central bank, ensuring that sweeping reforms initiated under Raghuram Rajan would continue. Urjit Patel, who oversees the monetary policy department at the Reserve Bank of India under Rajan, has been appointed for three years, the government said in a statement on Saturday. Patel, 52, ...

  Bloomberg Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati is putting trust-building at the top of her agenda as she tries to get more Indonesians to pay their taxes to raise funds for a massive infrastructure plan aimed at stimulating growth in Southeast Asia’s largest economy. “My job, first, is to restore confidence in the whole fiscal policy and our budget,” Indrawati ...