Regional News

Bloomberg Crude oil inventories will decline at a faster pace worldwide in the second half of the year as demand increases and OPEC members comply better with a global agreement to cut output, Kuwait’s OPEC Governor Haitham al-Ghais said. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and other major producers including Russia agreed in May to extend their supply-cuts deal through ...

Bloomberg The US is seeking to recover $144 million in assets, including proceeds from a luxury condominium on Manhattan’s Billionaires’ Row in New York, which prosecutors claim were spoils from bribes paid for Nigerian oil contracts. The Justice Department, in a lawsuit filed in Houston, said two Nigerian businessmen made corrupt payments to a Nigerian official who oversaw the country’s ...

Bloomberg India wants $300 billion in investments over the next 10 years to satisfy accelerating demand in the world’s fastest-growing oil market. The South Asian nation needs investments to boost the production of natural gas and crude oil, and to refine, transport and distribute the fuel to households, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said in an interview in Istanbul. He is ...

Bloomberg Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and other oil majors could see their credit ratings slashed again if they fail to cut costs and reduce their growing debt loads in the next year, according to an S&P Global Ratings report. The world’s largest drillers failed to take advantage of high prices during the boom years before 2014 to repay debt, ...

Bloomberg Liberty House Group, fresh off a deal for Australian steel mill Arrium Ltd., is among bidders for a Glencore Plc coal mine that could fetch as much as A$500 million ($380 million), people with knowledge of matter said. Liberty House’s GFG Alliance joint venture submitted an indicative offer for the Tahmoor mine by the deadline last month, according to ...

Bloomberg The biggest oil traders feeling the squeeze in a world awash with crude are seeking an edge by offering tailor-made cargoes in an offshore megastore. By selling bespoke from a fleet of ships anchored off Singapore and Malaysia, the likes of Vitol, Trafigura Group, Glencore Plc and Gunvor Group are seeking to lure buyers who are becoming more demanding. ...

Bloomberg Oil extended gains toward $46 a barrel as US industry data showed crude and gasoline stockpiles declined. Futures advanced as much as 2.2 percent in New York after rising 1.8 percent in the previous two sessions. Crude inventories fell by 8.13 million barrels last week, the American Petroleum Institute was said to report. If the decline is replicated in ...

Bloomberg OPEC needs to “shock and awe” the oil market for prices to gain, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries must increase output cuts aimed at shrinking a global glut with little public announcement in order to jolt investors, the bank said in a July 10 report. Without such action and no evidence of ...

Bloomberg Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the oil company that spent more than $50bn to buy natural-gas producer BG Group Plc, is looking to expand demand for fuel in transport to ensure its output is consumed. Shell is studying developing a global network of liquefied natural gas supply hubs for vehicles including ships, Steve Hill, executive vice president for gas and ...

Bloomberg Petroleos Mexicanos has hired the same legal representation used by Brazilian utility Eletrobras to audit its contracts with Odebrecht SA and affiliate Braskem SA amid an ongoing investigation into those two companies by the US Department of Justice. Hogan Lovells US LLP, which for the past two years has been leading an internal audit of state-owned Eletrobras related to ...