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New US LNG export plans threatened amid trade war

Bloomberg Liquefied natural gas (LNG) may have dodged the latest round of Chinese tariffs on US goods, but plans for new American terminals to ship the fuel abroad are under threat as trade war escalates. Tellurian Inc. and other developers will probably delay final investment decisions on multibillion-dollar US LNG export projects to 2020 from this year as the tensions ...

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Bankers head to Saudi Arabia to compete for world’s biggest IPO

Bloomberg Global banks will this week start making their case on why they should be hired for what’s set to be the world’s biggest initial public offering (IPO), according to people with knowledge of the matter. Dealmakers representing advisory firms from around the world will from Tuesday travel to Saudi Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran in the kingdom’s Eastern Province to ...

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Oil short-sellers are making a wrong-way bet

Bloomberg It’s getting tougher to bet on oil in the age of Trump trade tweets and Chinese retaliation, with hedge funds getting it wrong for a seventh time in nine weeks. This time around, short-sellers made their biggest retreat in a year in week ended August 20, slashing by 25% their wagers that West Texas Intermediate crude would decline, data ...

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Nigeria court orders to renew Shell oil lease

Bloomberg A Nigerian high court ordered the government to renew Shell Petroleum Development Co.’s operating license for the Oil Mineral Lease 11 field, which was withdrawn earlier this year, Lagos-based Punch newspaper reported. The Federal High Court in Abuja, ordered the license be renewed for maximum 20 years, and not 30 years the oil major was seeking, the newspaper reported. ...

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World gas glut risks $4bn bet by Reliance’s Ambani

Bloomberg A global glut in natural gas is threatening to undermine a $4 billion investment by Reliance Industries Ltd. aimed at boosting profits at the world’s largest oil refining complex. The project made all the sense in world when energy magnate Mukesh Ambani’s conglomerate announced it in 2012: convert petroleum coke, or petcoke, one of cheapest and dirtiest refinery by-products, ...

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Pipeline incident, weaker oil hits Rosneft profit

Bloomberg Rosneft PJSC’s second-quarter net income fell as the Russian giant suffered the effects of weaker oil prices and production cuts, but the decline was less severe than analysts expected. While the results show the impact on Rosneft of the Druzhba crisis, in which millions of barrels of exports to central Europe via the Soviet-era pipeline were contaminated with chemicals, ...

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Shale bond buyers get picky as defaults rise

Bloomberg After years pouring funds into the shale boom, bond buyers are getting increasingly selective as defaults rise and many explorers continue to burn more cash than they make. While Exxon Mobil Corp. and Occidental Petroleum Corp. have recently sold a combined $20 billion of investment-grade debt, junk rated issuers are getting a far different market reception. High-yield energy companies ...

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South Sudan discovers new crude in Adar

Bloomberg South Sudan has made a new crude find in the northern oilfields of Adar and plans production by the end of the year, Information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth said. The oil will be linked to the nearby Paloch oilfields that are managed by Dar Petroleum Operating Co., Lueth said on Monday by phone from the capital, Juba. Petroleum Minister ...

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Battery startup with $4.5bn plan has vision for Nordic hub

Bloomberg Freyr AS, a startup planning to build one of Europe’s first battery gigafactories in Norway, has a bigger vision for the region: a “Nordic Battery Belt.” The Norwegian company is still gathering approvals, technology licenses and funding for its initial, 40 billion-krone ($4.5 billion) project in northern Norway. But it already sees the scope for as many as four ...

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Glencore halts cobalt mine as profit plunges

Bloomberg Glencore Plc reported the weakest profit in three years and announced plans to halt about a fifth of the world’s cobalt production after prices for the battery metal plunged. Glencore will shutter Mutanda project in the Democratic Republic of Congo for about two years in a move to put a floor under cobalt market, which has seen prices fall ...

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