Energy

  Bloomberg Oil made the biggest annual gain since 2009 as OPEC and other producing nations plan to start supply cuts next month to reduce swelling global inventories. Futures rose 52 percent in London this year after closing little changed on Friday. US crude inventories unexpectedly expanded for a second week with a gain of 614,000 barrels last week, the ...

Bloomberg Investors are showing no sign of turning their backs on oil heading into 2017. Money managers’ wagers on rising West Texas Intermediate crude prices are triple what they were at the end of 2015, and are the highest since the start of the crude market crash 2 1/2 years ago. Crude futures settled at the highest in almost 18 ...

  Bloomberg As oil prices stabilize and confidence returns to the patch, there’s been an uptick in oil and gas companies filing to go public. With prized assets in the industry’s promised lands, not all of them make it that far. In the past month alone, two explorers that were headed for an initial public offering have ins- tead become ...

  MINEVILLE, N.Y. / AP Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Bhd. is seeking to move ahead with a proposed $27 billion liquefied natural gas project in western Canada after identifying a new site for shipping the fuel, a shift that may help reduce costs and quell local opposition. Petronas’s Pacific NorthWest LNG project would continue as planned with the liquefaction plant on ...

  Bloomberg Oil traded near the highest closing level in 18 months amid conflicting signs on whether the supply surplus is diminishing in the US, the world’s largest fuel consumer. Futures slid as much as 1.1 percent in New York after climbing 6.2 percent the previous eight sessions, the longest run of gains in almost seven years. Traders faced mixed ...

  Bloomberg Shale oil companies are ready to play chicken with supply and demand again. Roiled by a year that began with crude at a 12-year low and ended with a surprise OPEC agreement boosting prices, U.S. producers including Continental Resources Inc. and Pioneer Natural Resources Co. are promising not to overreact — or overspend. The temptation will be strong: ...

  Bloomberg It may be time for a baby boom in U.S. oil. Rising crude prices and a deregulatory push in Washington may spur as many as 40 companies to hold initial public offerings over the next two years, potentially tripling 2016’s activity, according to Maynard Holt, chief executive officer at Houston-based investment bank Tudor Pickering Holt & Co. After ...

  Bloomberg Oil traded near the highest since July last year amid optimism OPEC and 11 other producing nations will cut output as promised, helping eliminate a global supply glut. Futures rose as much as 0.6 percent in New York, advancing for an eighth day in the longest winning streak in almost seven years. Crude inventories should return to equilibrium ...

  CAIRO / Reuters Egyptian Oil Minister Tarek El Molla has signed three offshore oil and gas exploration and production deals worth a total of at least $220 million with France’s Total, Britain’s BP, and Italian oil major ENI’s Egyptian subsidiary IEOC, the ministry said on Wednesday. The deals include drilling for six wells and a signing bonus of $9 ...

Bloomberg BP Plc will pay A$1.785 billion ($1.3 billion) for Woolworths Ltd.’s network of Australian gas stations in a deal that will cement the London-based oil company as one of the nation’s biggest fuel providers. The British energy company will acquire 527 fuel outlets that are currently supplied by rival Caltex Australia Ltd., as well as 16 development sites, according ...