Regional News

  Bloomberg Plans to install turbines on platforms that float in the sea are gathering pace as renewable energy developers seek new areas to harvest wind power. Scotland has granted planning permission for as much as 92 megawatts of floating offshore wind capacity, including two separate projects in the past two weeks. In Ireland, the developer Gaelectric Holdings Plc and ...

  Bloomberg Lukoil PJSC returned to profit in the fourth quarter after crude prices rallied. Russia’s No. 2 oil producer reported net income of 46.6 billion rubles ($786 million), compared with a loss of 65 billion rubles a year earlier. That beat the 45 billion-ruble average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Revenue held steady at 1.4 trillion rubles. ...

  Reuters Saudi Arabia’s King Salman oversaw the signing of deals worth potentially $65 billion on the first day of a visit to Beijing on Thursday, as the world’s largest oil exporter looks to cement ties with the world’s second-largest economy. King Salman, who has overseen the launch of an ambitious economic reform plan since his accession two years ago, ...

  Bloomberg Expanding fuel shipments from the Persian Gulf will intensify competition from Europe to Asia, squeezing profits across the global refining industry and contributing to a looming glut of oil products. As Saudi Arabia, Iran and other crude suppliers build new oil-processing plants and upgrade old ones, the Gulf region is poised to become a net exporter of refined ...

  Reuters When OPEC reached a deal last year to cut oil output, the decision to exclude Nigeria and Libya from the restrictions was seen as a risk to the group’s efforts to curb a global crude glut. An oil price rally has already stumbled since the deal, but Nigeria and Libya are not to blame. Output from both nations ...

  Bloomberg Iran has signed a $1 billion deal with private investors to develop Mehdiabad, one of the world’s largest zinc mines, which it expects to go on stream in next four years and produce 800,000 ton-nes of zinc concentrate per year. The state-owned Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organisation (IMIDRO) said in a weekend statement it ...

  Bloomberg Glencore Plc is entering the fuel-stations business in Mexico with a 15-year supply deal and a $200 million investment in a joint-venture with local owners, according to people familiar with the decision. The agreement is the first significant move for Glencore in the retail fuel sector. It comes as commodities traders including Vitol Group BV and Trafigura Group ...

  Bloomberg The Trump administration’s plan to slash corporate tax rates could free up more than $10 billion a year for US oil explorers, opening new opportunities to boost drilling at a time of uncertainty in marketplace. Crude prices in New York have fallen 10 percent since the end of 2016 as added drilling in America’s shale fields offset an ...

  Bloomberg For sale: stakes in oil fields. Bids from world class energy companies preferred. Pipelines and terminals associated with the deposits only blown up about a dozen times in the past year. Deal may depend on crude prices. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s government on March 7 proposed a plan to jump start the economy by, among other things, selling ...

  Bloomberg The future of the Canadian oil sands is looking a lot more Canadian. Calgary-based Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. said it will spend C$12.7 billion ($9.4 billion), its biggest purchase ever, to buy Alberta oil fields and facilities that process the sticky bitumen from oil sands from Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Marathon Oil Corp. “At the time you ...