Energy

Bloomberg A group led by Brazil’s Itausa Investimentos SA offered about $850 million for Petrobras’s bottled gas distributor. Petrobras said in a filing that Itausa, the holding company for Setubal and Villela families, in a consortium with Copagaz Distribuidora de Gas Ltda and Nacional Gas Butano, offered highest bid for Liquigas Distribuidora SA. The supplier of liquefied petroleum gas for ...

Bloomberg When a Chinese state-owned survey vessel sailed into waters off Vietnam’s coast in early July, it unleashed a high-seas standoff with trillions of dollars at stake that risks drawing in Russia and the US. For weeks now the Haiyang Dizhi 8 has zigzagged across a square block of water to study the seabed in an active drilling block operated ...

Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron is calling on container lines to avoid using a new Arctic shipping route to protect the environment. Speaking at the start of the Group of Seven summit in Biarritz in southwest France on Saturday, Macron said France’s biggest shipping line, CMA CGM, has committed not to use the so-called Northern Sea Route being promoted by ...

Bloomberg An acceleration in economic growth in South Africa could trigger power cuts, with state utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd.’s fragile generation system unable to respond to increased demand for electricity. The energy availability of Eskom’s generation fleet is supposed to be as high as 80%, but is currently as low as 69%, and even a 0.1% rise in gross ...

Bloomberg Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta is extending its output cuts by a year as delays to key pipelines threaten to prolong a glut of crude in the region. The curtailment program, which will now end in December 2020, had been slated to wrap up at the end of this year as Enbridge Inc.’s expansion of the Line 3 pipeline ...

Bloomberg Oil steadied near $56 a barrel as hints of a trade detente between the US and China, along with the prospect of monetary stimulus, buoyed financial markets. Futures were little changed in New York after settling 2.4% higher on Monday. US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said America will delay restrictions on some of China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s business ...

Bloomberg Iran is about to burn a lot more fuel oil as a result of US sanctions and new global shipping rules, reversing the nation’s progress in switching to cleaner-burning natural gas. Power plants and other industrial facilities will burn more than 200,000 barrels a day of highly polluting fuel oil next year, double the amount Iran used in 2018, ...

Bloomberg The UK’s oil refineries would be at a severe competitive disadvantage if Britain exits the European Union without a deal and tariffs were imposed on its gasoline exports, according to an industry group. A leaked government document, on the implications of a no-deal Brexit, claimed that two of the UK’s oil refineries could be forced to shut down if ...

Bloomberg The imminent overhaul of global ship-fuel regulations is finally delivering a long-awaited benefit to Asian oil refiners. Profits from turning crude into diesel in the second half of 2019 are forecast to be about 31% higher than the first six months, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Margins have already expanded around 40% since late April as International Maritime ...

Bloomberg The race to develop oil terminals that can fully load supertankers on the US Gulf Coast remains congested, even as one of North America’s largest pipeline operators decided to push its project ahead. Over a year, more than 10 projects have been proposed for terminals that, combined, will be able to load 8 million barrels a day onto very ...