Energy

  Bloomberg Source Energy Services Ltd., Canada’s largest distributor of fracking sand, is seeking to raise C$175 million ($130 million) in an initial public offering, reviving the deal after it was postponed last month as oil prices fell, according to people familiar with the sale. The Calgary-based company plans to sell the shares at C$10.50 apiece, down from the previous ...

  Bloomberg After years of building networks of gas stations that sell drinks, snacks and other impulse buys, US energy companies are unloading them to focus on their main business. Sunoco LP became the latest to pull back, and was rewarded with the biggest gain for its shares in almost three years. The Houston-based company agreed to sell about 1,100 ...

  ALGIERS / Reuters Algeria plans to invite bids for construction of three photovoltaic solar power plants with total capacity of about 4,000 megawatts (MW), and several energy and financial firms are already interested, the energy ministry said. Algeria, member of the Organization for the Petroleum Exporting Countries, has been exploring renewable energy as a way to meet growing demand ...

  Bloomberg India’s Iran oil imports jumped to a record high in 2016/17 topping half-a-million barrels per day (bpd) as refiners boosted purchases after lifting of some Western sanctions against Tehran last year. India, Iran’s biggest oil buyer after China, was among a handful of countries that continued to deal with Tehran despite Western sanctions over its nuclear programme. Refiners ...

  Bloomberg Oil rose in New York as investors weighed a surprise increase in US stockpiles against OPEC-led efforts to reduce the global oversupply. Futures added 0.5 percent, extending the 6.8 percent gain of the previous seven sessions. US output rose for a seventh week and inventories expanded to a fresh record, government data showed Wednesday. The increase in US ...

  DOHA / Reuters Qatar Petroleum (QP) and ExxonMobil will start drilling for oil and gas off the southern coast of Cyprus in 2018, the Qatari firm said after signing an exploration and production sharing contract with the Mediterranean island. Exploring the Mediterranean’s Levant Basin has become more attractive since Eni discovered Egypt’s offshore Zohr field in 2015, the biggest ...

  Bloomberg OPEC isn’t the only decades-old energy hegemony being turned on its head by US shale. Liquefied natural gas sellers from Qatar to Malaysia that dominated gas sales to Asia for years are facing the prospect of rising American exports. While less than 30 US cargoes have landed in Asia, their effect was felt even before they arrived. LNG ...

  Bloomberg Libya’s crude production rebounded to about 660,000 barrels a day as the OPEC nation’s biggest oil field resumed output after about a week of disruption. Force majeure on the Zawiya export terminal was lifted after pumping resumed at Sharara, the nation’s biggest oil field, Mustafa Sanalla, chairman of Libya’s state-run National Oil Corp., said on Monday by phone. ...

  Reuters Kuwait is set to import fuel oil to use mainly in power generation for about a year following the start-up of the Clean Fuel project by 2018, the chief executive of state refiner Kuwait National Petroleum Co (KNPC) said. Fuel oil to meet the requirements of the Ministry of Electricity and Water is currently being produced from the ...

  Bloomberg Four years ago, Canada’s government tried to keep state-owned companies out of Alberta’s oil sands. Now, they may be around for a while. ConocoPhillips, Marathon Oil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc decided this month to sell most of their oil sands to Cenovus Energy Inc. and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. That leaves firms such as China’s Cnooc ...