Regional News

Bloomberg India will sell as much as 9 percent in monopoly miner Coal India Ltd. in a public offer starting on Wednesday, according to a regulatory filing by the country’s coal ministry. The federal government, which owns 78.55 percent in the world’s largest coal producer, will sell a 3 percent stake, or 186.22 million shares, with an option to sell ...

Bloomberg India’s top court has directed the federal electricity regulator to decide within 8 weeks on approving revised tariffs for three power producers in the western state of Gujarat due to increased cost of imported coal. The Gujarat government sought the top court’s intervention to implement a state government panel’s report that recommended implementing a cost-reflective tariff, which would mirror ...

Bloomberg Simec Atlantis Energy Ltd., a renewable energy developer, plans to extend its tidal stream project in Scotland by adding two new turbines. The MeyGen facility currently has a capacity of 6MWs, and the extension will bring it to 10MWs. It’s partially funded by a $19mn support package from the European Commission. Atlantis is trying to bring costs down by ...

Bloomberg With new pipelines unlikely to come online anytime soon, analysts at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) are floating a new idea to ease Alberta’s crude oil bottlenecks: Give producers a temporary respite from making royalty payments. Suspending the average 5 percent royalty that Alberta’s oil producers pay to the province in the form of cash or barrels of crude ...

Bloomberg Russia is set to suffer the biggest revenue losses from rules mandating cleaner marine fuels from 2020, because the world’s top exporter of the sulfurous residual oil that powers ships doesn’t look prepared for the change. Refineries across the world are bracing themselves for the once-in-a-generation shift intended to reduce pollution caused by ships. While plants in Europe and ...

Bloomberg C2 Energy Capital LLC, a New York-based clean-energy developer, raised $21 million to invest in new projects. About half of the money raised for the C2 Taiyo Fund I LP fund is already committed to specific projects. The fund will target renewables and storage investments, including a 51-megawatt solar portfolio being built in South Carolina. C2 develops, owns and ...

Bloomberg Forget Asian hunger for energy or where liquefied natural gas (LNG) costs the most, at the moment it’s all about tanker rates. Northwest Europe has seen a boom in LNG imports this month, with cargoes arriving from atypical sources including Peru and Egypt, while the US and Russia are also sending tankers into the most liquid gas market outside ...

Bloomberg Steelmakers in China and the rest of the world need to do more to reduce overcapacity, according to Guido Kerkhoff, CEO chief executive officer of Germany’s ThyssenKrupp AG. While China made good progress in curbing over-production, there’s room for even more cuts, Kerkhoff said. China has reshaped industry in past three years by closing plants, tightening environmental controls and ...

Bloomberg China’s government has told at least two of its state oil companies to avoid purchasing Iranian oil as the US prepares to impose sanctions on the Persian Gulf state, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The freeze on imports by China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) and Sinopec is temporary and purchases may resume depending on the outcome ...

Bloomberg Lawyers for Exxon Mobil Corp. stood before a New York judge and told the state’s attorney general to “put up or shut up” after spending three years investigating the company’s public disclosures about climate change, saying authorities should sue the energy giant or move on. Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed a fraud lawsuit against Exxon in state court in ...