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Bloomberg India’s efforts to sell a $1.6 billion stake in Oil & Natural Gas Corp. has run into concerns that government policies on fuel pricing would weigh on the state-run explorer’s share price, according to people with knowledge of the situation. Investors and fund managers that met with Indian government officials during a US roadshow last month voiced concern that …

Bloomberg Equatorial Guinea may exclude oil-service companies TechnipFMC Plc, Subsea 7 SA and Schlumberger Ltd. from the country because they aren’t complying with local-content rules over training and jobs, said a government official. Major oil companies could be asked by the end of September to cancel their contracts with those service providers and issue new tenders, the official said, asking …

Bloomberg I Squared Capital, the private equity firm led by former Morgan Stanley executives, is considering a sale of Irish power producer Viridian Group Holdings Ltd., people with knowledge of the matter said. The infrastructure-focussed investment firm is sounding out potential buyers to gauge their interest in Viridian, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the information …

Bloomberg Peace talks between Yemen’s exiled government and Shiite rebels planned for this week in Geneva haven’t taken place after the Houthis delegation didn’t arrive in the Swiss city. The United Nations’ special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, plans to head to the war-torn country within days, where he will hold talks with the Houthi rebels. “The environment for discussions …

Bloomberg The price to access unexplored shale assets on the New Mexico side of the Permian Basin soared to $95,001 an acre in a federal government auction, a record high for North America’s biggest oil field. The state’s previous record was $40,001 an acre set in December, according to a statement by the US Department of the Interior. Overall, the …

Bloomberg Mexico’s next president said he will continue with tenders for drilling service contracts starting when he takes office. “We are preparing the rescue plan for the oil industry that will consist of producing more crude oil soon, and we will need these companies that have experience, most of them national companies,” President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said. “We are …

Bloomberg The vibrations of the shale boom are now shaking the futures market. A visible decline in open interest of West Texas Intermediate crude futures contracts for delivery five or more years in the future is due to the growth of tight oil fields and the shift in producers’ need to hedge oil so far out in the future, according …

ABU DHABI / WAM The trade exchange between the UAE and Ghana amounted to over $1.2 billion by the end of 2017,a according to a senior Ministry of Economy official. “Afro-UAE relations are significantly evolving and we are attaching growing importance to strengthening business ties with the Republic of Ghana,” said Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Saleh, Under-Secretary of the Ministry …

ST. PETERBURG / WAM Gazprom Neft, Mubadala Petroleum and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), the sovereign wealth fund of the Russian Federation have announced the completion of a transaction establishing a joint venture to develop oil fields in the Tomsk and Omsk regions of Western Siberia. Further to an agreement announced on May 24 this year, Gazprom Neft has …

ABU DHABI / WAM Borouge on Wednesday signed with Marie Tecnimont Group, the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for its fifth polypropylene (PP5) plant in Ruwais, which will grow Borouge’s polypropylene capacity by 25% to 2.24 million tonnes per year (t/y) and unlock new opportunities to reinforce local industries. With a nameplate capacity of 480,000 t/y, the new PP5 …