Energy

Bloomberg Saudi Aramco raised December pricing for sales of its light oil grades to Asia to their highest levels since 2014, just a day after announcing it will sell shares for the first time. The state-owned oil producer increased monthly pricing for shipments of all crudes to the US. Aramco increased its official selling price for flagship Arab Light crude ...

Bloomberg Tata Power Co. Ltd., in collaboration with the Rockefeller Foundation, plans to develop 10,000 microgrids in India to boost access to affordable and reliable electricity to homes and enterprises across the nation’s vast rural areas. Tata Power will set up a new unit, TP Renewable Microgrid Ltd., to build the microgrids through 2026 that will serve nearly 5 million ...

Bloomberg Hope for a boom in the global solar industry this year is fading as the top market is expected to miss its installation target. China is likely to fail meeting the new capacity estimates it touted earlier this year, which were as high as 45 gigawatts, according to analysts at Daiwa Capital Markets and BloombergNEF, as well as the ...

Bloomberg America’s two biggest oil majors are leaning on booming shale production in the Permian Basin, the once-overlooked region in West Texas and New Mexico, to weather the gathering macroeconomic storm of lower oil demand, weak commodity prices and slowing global growth. Exxon Mobil Corp. said its production from the basin rose 70% in the third quarter compared with a ...

Bloomberg Russia’s average daily oil production remained above its Opec+ target in October, though the compliance gap is the smallest since the Druzhba crude-contamination crisis earlier this year. The country pumped 47.49 million tons of crude and condensate last month, according to preliminary data from the Energy Ministry’s CDU-TEK unit. That equals a daily average of 11.229 million barrels, based ...

Bloomberg China’s imports of liquefied natural gas are poised to drop for the first time in more than three years as buyers grapple with an outage at a key receiving terminal and hefty stockpiles. The world’s top buyer of natural gas imported 3.8 million tons of the fuel in LNG form October 1-30, according to berth data compiled by Bloomberg, ...

Bloomberg A Greek ship is being implicated by Brazilian authorities as part of a probe into a mysterious oil spill in the Latin American country. More information is being sought about the merchant vessel that may have been the source of the oil leak, according to statements from the police and federal prosecutor’s office. The ship, which wasn’t named, docked ...

Bloomberg Opening up a potentially huge shale gas region in Australia’s Northern Territory would increase the country’s already-hefty greenhouse gas emissions making it a “particularly dangerous” contributor to climate change, according to a new study. The report, commissioned by environmental lobby group Lock The Gate, tested a range of scenarios for development of the McArthur Basin and Beetaloo sub-basin, which ...

Bloomberg Pakistan’s top business tycoons have offered to take over a disputed copper and gold deposit that was once explored by Barrick Gold Corp. and Antofagasta Plc, according to people familiar with the matter. Officials at the provincial Balochistan government are said to have met with a consortium of four business groups including tycoons Arif Habib and Muhammad Ali Tabba ...

Bloomberg Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (Sabic) posted its lowest quarterly profit in at least a decade as the chemical maker took an impairment charge and cheaper oil put pressure on its product prices. Net income slumped 86% from the previous year to 830 million riyals, while sales fell 23% for the same period to 33.7 billion riyals, the company known ...