Regional News

Bloomberg Oil prices declined for the week, as expanded US drilling activity and added production offset a larger-than-expected drop in stockpiles. Futures fell 3.9 percent, even after US data showed the nation’s crude stockpiles dropped by 6.3 million barrels, three times as much as expected. US drillers went back to adding rigs this week, after breaking a record streak of ...

Bloomberg Ukraine is talking to one of France’s largest energy companies about building a giant, billion-euro ($1.25 billion) solar park in the uninhabited radioactive zone surrounding the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Engie SA is beginning a pre-feasibility study funded by the French government next week with the results expected for the end of the year, Ukraine’s minister of ecology, Ostap ...

Bloomberg Berkshire Hathaway Inc. may face a challenge from bondholders led by Elliott Management Corp. to its $9 billion all-cash deal for Texas utility Oncor Electric Delivery Co. Billionaire investor Paul Singer’s Elliott, the biggest creditor of Oncor’s bankrupt parent Energy Future Holdings Corp., may seek to put together a rival bid, according to a person with knowledge of the ...

TOKYO / Reuters Saudi Arabia has boosted its market share in Japan, the world’s top oil exporter’s biggest Asian market, by selling more light crude to the country as a way to offset revenue lost implementing OPEC’s production cuts. Middle East crude sellers consider Japan, the world’s fourth-largest oil importer, a premium market since its refiners will pay more to ...

Bloomberg Crude oil fell, snapping the longest winning streak this year, as Russia was said to oppose any proposal to deepen OPEC-led production cuts. Futures dropped 1.7 percent in New York, snapping eight straight sessions of gains. Russia wants to continue with the current deal and any further supply curbs would send the wrong message to the market, according to ...

Bloomberg The UK is becoming more dependent than ever on the European Union to look after its natural gas, even as it negotiates its exit from the bloc. Britain is expected to ship a record volume of natural gas from the UK to Belgium through an interconnecting pipeline on Wednesday, capping a year of buoyant flows to the mainland. The ...

Bloomberg China has promised to make its skies blue again, but having some of the world’s most-expensive natural gas isn’t helping. The biggest energy consumer on earth wants to use more of the cleaner-burning fuel in place of the coal that’s choking its skies and causing pollution far exceeding the World Health Organization’s daily recommended limit. China has the ability ...

Bloomberg A US appeals court rebuked the Environmental Protection Agency for unilaterally suspending Obama-era methane emissions regulations while the regulator reviewed the rule. The Washington-based panel’s 2-1 majority called the EPA’s move both unauthorized and unreasonable. It granted a request from six environmental groups to allow the rule to remain in place. The decision is the latest blow to the ...

Bloomberg Chad is seeking to delay repayment of more than $1 billion of Glencore Plc-led oil-for-cash loans after crude prices plunged, the second time the African country has looked to restructure the debt in two years, according to people familiar with the matter. Glencore has approached the banks that supported the deal to start talks, while Chad has already appointed ...

Bloomberg An EON SE nuclear plant that made billions for the German utility is now losing money. Essen-based EON is battling repeated delays to production at its Brokdorf reactor that has cost the company more than 100 million euros ($114 million) since halting in February, Almut Zyweck, a spokeswoman for EON’s nuclear unit, said by email. Brokdorf, a 1.4-gigawatt reactor ...