Energy

  Bloomberg A pile up of tankers waiting in the North Sea suggests a glut is building again in the market where benchmark crude is traded, highlighting the task facing OPEC as it seeks to rein in a global glut. At least 10 tankers are at or near two locations off the U.K. coast where they must wait to transfer ...

  Reuters Oman Oil Company Exploration & Production (OOCEP) has appointed Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp as financial advisor to arrange a loan which is likely to be in excess of $1 billion, banking sources told Reuters. The upstream oil and gas company, a subsidiary of state-owned Oman Oil Co, is expected to raise the financing early next year, the sources ...

  Bloomberg BHP Billiton Ltd. sees oil and gas markets rebounding faster than its mined commodities as it considers potential acquisitions and weighs as much as $5 billion in project spending. The world’s biggest miner, which booked writedowns of $7.2 billion against its U.S. shale unit earlier this year, said recovering oil prices and efforts to lower costs are making ...

  Bloomberg India’s largest oil and gas producer will continue with its record investment plan despite a cut in domestic gas prices, which were reduced for the fourth consecutive time last week. Oil and Natural Gas Corp. plans to invest about 300 billion rupees ($4.5 billion) in the year beginning April 1, including investment in its gas-rich Krishna-Godavari block off ...

Bloomberg Iran’s state-owned oil company sold condensate to BP Plc for the first time since sanctions were lifted in January, marking the country’s re-emergence as one of the world’s top suppliers of crude oil and natural gas liquids. National Iranian Oil Co. will supply South Pars condensate to BP for loading between September and October, said an NIOC official, asking ...

  Bloomberg Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude exporter, cut pricing for November oil sales to Asia and Northwest Europe and for most grades to other regions amid a global supply glut. State-owned Saudi Arabian Oil Co., known as Saudi Aramco, lowered its official pricing for Arab Light crude to Asia by 25 cents a barrel to 45 cents less ...

  Bloomberg Iran’s top renewable-energy authority denied that it’s signed any agreement covering electricity generation projects with a Swiss developer that has said it obtained power-purchase agreements for 370 megawatts of installations. The Renewable Energy Organization of Iran, which is known as Suna, hasn’t signed any deal with MECI Group International, said Jafar Mohamadnejad Sigaroudi, the deputy in charge of ...

  ANKARA / Agencies The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) on Tuesday signed a new style, less restrictive, output contract with an Iranian firm, a long-awaited template for contracts it hopes will tempt foreign energy investors back to boost production after years of sanctions. “The oil ministry welcomes cooperation with all companies that can … help boost Iran’s output,” the ...

  Bloomberg Libya’s oil production rose to 500,000 barrels a day and will further advance by the end of the month as the holder of Africa’s largest crude reserves was exempt from an OPEC accord to limit production, according to an official of the state oil company. The country’s production will reach 600,000 a day by the end of October, ...

  Reuters Iran’s total crude oil and condensate sales likely reached around 2.8 million barrels per day in September, two sources with knowledge of the matter said, nearly matching a 2011 peak in shipments before sanctions were imposed on the OPEC producer. The run-up from shipments of around 2.5 million bpd in August comes mainly from condensate, a light oil ...