Bloomberg First-quarter profit at Saudi Basic Industries Corp., the Middle East’s biggest petrochemicals producer, rose on higher prices and sales volumes, in spite of a 1.1 billion Saudi riyal ($290 million) charge for restructuring. Net income increased 5.4 percent to 5.51 billion riyals compared with the same quarter a year earlier, the Riyadh-based company said in a statement to the ...

Bloomberg Inside the largest refiner merger of all time is a hidden pipeline grab. Andeavor purchased a 25 percent stake last week in Phillips 66 Partners LP’s Gray Oak pipeline, which will haul Permian shale oil to the US Gulf Coast starting in the end of next year. The integrated refining company also owns oil gathering assets in the world’s ...

Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, inaugurated the 200 megawatts (MW) first stage of the 800MW third phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. The solar park is one of the major projects that the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), is ...