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Bloomberg The natural gas industry may be one of its own worst enemies. Most energy executives underestimate how much they can cut emissions as they extract and transport natural gas, according to a survey by the Energy Institute. Producers can reduce greenhouse gas flows by 75 percent simply by improving practices in the supply chain of the fuel, which consists …

TUNIS / Reuters Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) is suffering ongoing delays in receiving budget money from the government and this could reduce production, the head of the state company said. Mustafa Sanalla made the comments after meeting the head of Al Jouf Oil Technology Company, who said the NOC subsidiary was suffering from financial problems that had delayed projects …

Bloomberg Emirates NBD PJSC is preparing to submit a bid for Sberbank PJSC’s wholly-owned Turkish unit in March, people with knowledge of the matter said. Dubai’s biggest bank is evaluating an offer for Denizbank AS, the people said, asking not to be identified because the talks are private. It could take several months before Sberbank decides whether or not to …

Bloomberg The flood of US oil exports stepped up a gear on Monday after the first fully laden supertanker sailed from an American port, alleviating a bottleneck that’s limited overseas shipments. The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, or LOOP, the only deep water port in the US able to handle the industry’s biggest tankers, said in a statement it had successfully …

Bloomberg Indonesia will hold roadshows in the US and Europe later this month to lure investments from the world’s top energy companies as the former OPEC member seeks to reverse a decline in oil and gas production. The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry is seeking bids for 24 oil and gas blocks, 1 coal-bed methane block and 1 shale block, …

Bloomberg Snowy Hydro Ltd., Australia’s largest hydropower producer, is considering raising as much as A$2 billion ($1.6 billion) by the end of 2018 for a project expansion, which will boost its 4,100 megawatt capacity by as much as 50 percent. The company, jointly owned by the federal government and the Victorian and New South Wales state governments, has begun talks …

Bloomberg Oil shook off some of the fears that had rattled the market to extend gains above $62 a barrel as the dollar weakened and global equities rebounded from a rout. Futures rose as much as 1.4 percent in New York after advancing 4.2 percent last week, propped up by a relief rally that helped US equities to their best …

Bloomberg Three of the world’s biggest oil companies called on Norway to help maintain funding for carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology that is stagnating amid concerns about whether it can ever be cost-effective. The chief executive officers of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Total SA and Norway’s state-controlled Statoil ASA gathered on the sidelines of an energy conference in Oslo …

Bloomberg Kenya will introduce a royalty for geothermal-power producers under a proposed new law. Fees will be levied at a rate of 1 percent to 2.5 percent of revenue generated from the energy source within the first decade of a geothermal license being issued, according to the draft Energy Bill presented to lawmakers. The levy will then climb to between …

DUBAI / Reuters State-owned Oman Gas Co. is working with a group of banks to raise a bridge loan of slightly over $1 billion, which will later be refinanced via a US dollar bond issue, sources familiar with the matter said. The natural gas transport company, which was bought by state-owned Oman Oil Company in 2013, will use the financing …