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Bloomberg Petronet LNG Ltd. has reached an agreement to rework a liquefied natural gas supply agreement with Exxon Mobil Corp., the second such renegotiation by the Indian company for gas supplies after reaching a similar deal with Qatar, according to people with knowledge of the development. Under the new terms, the cost of the gas from the Gorgon LNG project ...

LONDON / Reuters Oil rose as Hurricane Irma weakened after hitting Florida, while Gulf Coast refining continued to recover following storm Harvey. Futures added 0.5 percent in New York after falling 3.3 percent on Friday. The intensity of Irma’s top winds have dropped to 75 miles (120 kilometers) per hour after making landfall Sunday as a Category 4 storm. About ...

Bloomberg When a recovery in crude prices sparks more deals in Norway’s oil industry, BASF SE’s Wintershall AG unit will be among those looking for opportunities. “Once oil prices increase, momentum will occur,” Wintershall Chief Executive Officer Mario Mehren said in an interview. “Norway’s attractive for M&A activities as they take place very transparently and the framework’s stable.” Wintershall has ...

Bloomberg Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd. and its partner BP Plc are reviving investment plans for a gas block close to a military missile launching facility in the Bay of Bengal. Reliance and its British partner are preparing a new development plan for the gas-rich NEC-OSN-97/2 block, also called NEC-25, in the Mahanadi basin offshore eastern India, according to ...

Bloomberg The global glut plaguing liquefied natural gas markets may start to dwindle in five years, threatening to spur a deficit equivalent to twice the output of leading producer Qatar. New projects are needed to fill the shortfall, with demand for the super-chilled fuel forecast to double in the 20 years to 2035, Cedigaz, a Paris-based industry research group, said ...

Bloomberg Sometimes, you need a little help from your friends. As Gulf Coast refiners restart their plants in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, they must step through a complex process that can take days to weeks to complete, even if they were largely unscathed by the storm’s flooding rains. But first, they need the support of others — third-party suppliers, ...

Bloomberg Australia’s government is keeping the pressure on AGL Energy Ltd. to extend the life of its Liddell coal-fired power station. Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg and Treasury Scott Morrison separately reiterated on Sunday the importance of the Liddell plant continuing to operate past 2022, when the Sydney-based company has said it will close. The government is scheduled to meet AGL ...

Reuters A group of independent Chinese oil refiners is clubbing together to survive an onslaught by state-owned giants and the rise of private chemical giants, but industry analysts said the new alliance may find it hard to stick. Less than two years after becoming some of China’s newest crude oil importers, around 20 independent plants in the eastern industrial heartland ...

Bloomberg A closely-held Chinese oil company agreed to buy a minority stake in Rosneft PJSC for about $9 billion, deepening energy and political ties with Russia amid increasing tensions with the US. The deal sees Glencore Plc and Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund selling most of their holding in Russia’s biggest crude producer, which they acquired to much fanfare in December. ...

DUBA / Reuters Saudi Arabia will cut crude oil allocations to its customers worldwide in October by 350,000 barrels per day (bpd), an industry source familiar with Saudi oil policy told Reuters. The cuts in allocations are in line with Saudi Arabia’s commitments to the OPEC-led supply reduction pact, under which the top oil exporter is required to cut 486,000 ...