BEIJING­­­­ / Reuters China’s crude oil production fell to its lowest on record in May, even as refineries in the world’s top buyer of crude churned out product at their fastest pace in nearly two years, data showed on Wednesday. Crude output fell 3.7 percent in May from a year earlier to 16.26 million tonnes, or 3.83 million barrels per …

Bloomberg Oil resumed its decline as industry data showed US crude stockpiles extended gains, exacerbating an inventory overhang. Futures lost as much as 1.4 percent in New York after rising 1.8 percent in the previous three sessions. The American Petroleum Institute signaled US inventories probably climbed a second week, ahead of Energy Information Administration data which is forecast to show …

Bloomberg China’s domination of energy markets — long the driver of soaring fossil-fuel consumption and rising carbon pollution — is now turning the planet in a cleaner direction. The biggest energy consumer is moving toward the end of an era after it burned the least coal in six years, became the number one producer of renewable energy and even lowered …