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AL AIN / WAM Al Ain City signed a twin-city agreement with Wuxi, in southern Jiangsu province, China, for cooperation in urban planning, education, sports, tourism, culture and arts, as well as trade and investment. The signing occurred during a visit by an Al Ain City delegation that toured the Chinese city at the invitation of Acting Mayor of Wuxi, …

Bloomberg Buy high, sell low and guarantee a loss. It’s not exactly what Toshiba Corp planned when it dipped its toes in liquefied natural gas trading. Yet that’s exactly how it turned out, as the Japanese industrial giant capped off its five-year misadventure in LNG by paying ENN Ecological Holdings Co $806 million to take its interest in a US …

Bloomberg The oil fields of West Texas don’t sit still for long. Take Carrizo Oil & Gas Inc.’s operations, for instance. Just three months after moving drill rigs out of the Permian Basin because of pipeline shortages, the Houston-based explorer is already talking about bringing them back in the middle of next year. That’s one of several signs the end …

Bloomberg Almost two years after Exxon Mobil Corp removed billions of barrels of oil-sands crude from its reserves, its Imperial Oil Ltd unit is investing again, saying low Canadian crude prices that scared off the other majors make it a perfect time to build. Imperial Chief Executive Officer Rich Kruger puts the rationale for the C$2.6 billion ($2 billion) Aspen …

ABU DHABI / WAM President HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, issued a federal law, authori- sing UAE Cabinet to grant temporary licenses for tes-ting and vetting of innovations that utilise future tech and its applications such artificial intelligence (AI). The study towards developing new legislations will begin with launch of RegLab in January 2019. RegLabwill be largest lab …

SHANGHAI / WAM The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) announced, on Saturday, it has concluded a new long-term liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sales agreement with Wanhua Chemical Group of China. Under the terms of the 10-year contract, Wanhua will purchase up to 1 million metric tonnes of LPG per annum. The agreement, which was signed by Abdulla Salem Al …

WARSAW / WAM Prospects of propelling economic cooperation between the UAE and Poland were the main topic of discussions as Mohammed Sharaf Al Hashemi, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and Inter-national Cooperation for Economic and Commercial Affairs, met Deputy Minister for Polish Diplomacy, Maciej Lang, in in Warsaw. “There are promising pros-pects of intensifying cooperation between two sides,” said Al …

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih agreed in a meeting in Baghdad on joint coordination with Iraq to achieve more stability in the oil market, Iraqi Oil Ministry spokesman Asim Jihad said by phone. Al-Falih flew into Baghdad for a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi ahead of talks between Opec and its allies in Abu Dhabi …

Bloomberg Russia’s oil industry is feeling the pressure of a possible return of production caps. In fact, by sacrificing a fraction of output, the companies could see their stocks rise. Fresh output curbs may push crude prices up, benefiting Russian producers just as they did during the cuts that began last year. The Moscow Oil & Gas Index has gained …

Bloomberg BlackRock Inc and CleanCapital LLC bought a 46.9-megawatt portfolio of US solar power from a unit of ATN International Inc. The 60 projects are in California, Massachusetts and New Jersey, CleanCapital said in a statement. ATN’s Chief Financial Officer Justin Benincasa said in an email that the purchase price was $64.3 million. Including assumed debt of $55.5 million and …