Dubai / Reuters Abu Dhabi’s government-owned power utility has closed a 3.2 billion dirham ($872 million) financing package for what will be the world’s largest solar power plant, the utility’s top official said. Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Authority (ADWEA) raised $650 million in debt with the remaining $222 million raised in equity, Director General Saif Saleh al-Sayari said. A ...
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Iraq mulls largest sovereign oil-hedging deal
Bloomberg Iraq is mulling an oil hedging program to lock in prices for future crude sales, potentially topping a similar deal run by Mexico that is considered the largest energy trade in Wall Street. The Middle Eastern nation is in the very early stages of exploring a hedge for as much as a quarter of either its crude production or ...
Read More »Iran’s maxed-out oil output eases push to extend cuts
Bloomberg Iran’s oil industry bounced back from sanctions last year, cranking up output to recover market share from other OPEC producers. Now that its surge has topped out, Iran supports an extension of the group’s cuts to preserve those gains. Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh’s willingness to embrace a deal that leaves Iran room to pump about 3.8 million barrels ...
Read More »Oil halts advance after four-day gain
Bloomberg Oil halted its advance after a four-day gain before OPEC meets on Thursday to decide on whether to prolong output cuts by the group and its partners. July futures dropped as much as 1 percent in New York after front-month prices on Monday capped a 4.3 percent increase over four sessions. Iraq backed a proposal to extend production curbs ...
Read More »Oil extends gain towards $51 as Saudi sees output curbs into 2018
Bloomberg Oil extended gains towards $51 a barrel as Saudi Arabia said all producers participating in output cuts agree on prolonging the deal through the first quarter of 2018. Futures climbed as much as 1.1 percent in New York after advancing 5.2 percent last week, the biggest weekly increase since March. An extension into next year will help producers reach ...
Read More »BP starts North Sea project to help double its UK output
Bloomberg BP Plc started a project in the UK North Sea that will restore production halted since 2013 and help double the company’s output in the area by the end of the decade. BP and its partners budgeted 4.4 billion pounds ($5.7 billion) for the Quad 204 project, which involved building a new floating production and supply vessel and redeveloping ...
Read More »â€˜Extending oil cuts, adding small producers can drain stocks’
RIYADH / AGENCIES Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said on Sunday that extending the current agreement on global oil supply cuts until March next year, and adding one or two small producers to the pact, should be enough to reduce oil inventories. “We believe that continuation with the same level of cuts, plus eventually adding one or two small producers … ...
Read More »Explorer in oldest Indian coal region bets $1bn on gas
Bloomberg India’s first producer of natural gas from coal seams in the country’s oldest mining region will spend about $1 billion to look for some of the newest forms of energy. Great Eastern Energy Corp. will invest as much as 20 billion rupees ($312 million) over the next four to five years to drill 144 new wells at its Raniganj ...
Read More »Spain seeks $4.3bn investment to meet EU energy targets
Bloomberg Spain sought to lure investment of as much as 3.9 billion euros ($4.3 billion) in its biggest auction yet for contracts to supply electricity from clean-energy sources, part of an effort to meet European Union targets. The government took bids to supply at least 2 gigawatts and as much as 3 gigawatts of power in time to meet the ...
Read More »Nigeria dispute threatens Exxon local unit’s output
Bloomberg Nigeria’s manager-level oil union will continue a strike indefinitely at Exxon Mobil Corp.’s local unit, threatening output after talks with the company to end the action reached an impasse, a labor official said. “The meeting broke down, and as of this morning our action has been escalated,†Gbenga Ekundayo, vice chairman of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff ...
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