Bloomberg Natural gas took a breather after its biggest gain in eight years as forecasts for lingering US cold spurred concern supplies may not be enough to meet winter demand. Gas for December delivery eased 3.1 percent in Asia after surging 18 percent to settle at $4.837 per million British thermal units, the highest since the “polar vortex†of early …
Read More »TIRANA / WAM The Albanian Parliament and the International Parliament for Tolerance and Peace (IPTP) honoured the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan in Tirana, Albania. The members of the parliament stood in respect for the UAE Founding Father, in appreciation of his contributions to promoting tolerance and peace around the world, during the second session of the Albanian …
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ABU DHABI / WAM The National Programme for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, the executive arm of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), operating under the umbrella of the Ministry of Economy, organised an introductory workshop, in cooperation with European Business Network of the European Commission. The workshop, which was attended by over 25 representatives of funding institutions and organisations that support …
Read More »Emirates Business Uber announced on Monday the re-launch of its services in the UAE capital, in collaboration with Department of Transport in Abu Dhabi — represented by the Integrated Transport Centre (ITC) — to offer convenient and reliable transportation solutions across the Emirate with a push of a button. The announcement followed the signing of an agreement between Uber and …
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Bloomberg The largest Persian Gulf producer that’s not an Opec member is combining state-run oil investment and refining companies to form a business that spans pumping crude and natural gas to processing and trading fuels. Government-owned Oman Oil Co and Oman Oil Refineries & Petroleum Industries Co (Orpic) named Musab Abdullah Al Mahruqi as chief executive officer of the merged …
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Bloomberg Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries Ltd is considering a plan to boost its oil-refining capacity by about half, people with knowledge of the matter said. The proposed plant, to come up at the world’s biggest refining complex in Jamnagar, will be able to process as much as 30 million tonnes of crude a year, the people said asking not …
Read More »Bloomberg BGC Partners Inc is entering the shipbroking market for the first time, buying Poten and Partners Group Inc to bet on demand for liquefied natural gas. Poten, which is based in New York, specializes in the LNG tanker and liquid petroleum gas markets, with 170 staff in offices from London to Singapore, Houston, Athens, Guangzhou and Perth. BGC didn’t …
Read More »Bloomberg Hedge funds are betting Opec will struggle to reverse oil’s precipitous plunge. Their combined wagers against West Texas Intermediate and Brent crude soared for a seventh straight week, the longest global short-selling streak in data going back to 2011. The bearish bets jumped 14 percent in the week ended on November 13 and have tripled since the end of …
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Bloomberg Canada’s oil sector is divided over whether to force a temporary cut to production, with some major producers pushing the controversial idea in a bid to ease a supply glut and halt a steep plunge in prices, according to seven people familiar with the matter. Executives from Canadian Natural Resources Ltd and Nexen Energy ULC are among those who …
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Bloomberg American fingerprints are all over oil’s record losing streak that’s plunged prices into a bear market. The State Department’s zigzag on Iran sanctions, President Donald Trump’s tweets about Opec supply, the demand-sapping trade war with China and the explosion of shale oil production are all key factors leading to the collapse in crude prices since early October, Ed Morse, …
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