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Gasoline hits two-year high as Harvey shuts biggest US refinery

Bloomberg Gasoline rose to a two-year high as Tropical Storm Harvey hit the US Gulf coast again after already knocking out a fifth of the nation’s refining capacity. Motiva Enterprises LLC’s Port Arthur refinery, the country’s biggest, was said to be shutting because of severe flooding. The disruption helped send motor fuel as much as 3.3 percent higher in New ...

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Gazprom damps hope for increase in dividend

Bloomberg Gazprom PJSC’s profit slumped in the last quarter, cooling the prospect of an increased dividend from the world’s largest natural gas producer. Net income plunged 80 percent as record gas exports to Europe were offset by foreign-currency losses, the Moscow-based company said in a statement late on Tuesday. Gazprom aims to keep its dividend payments in rubles no lower ...

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Stalled Chile solar farm seeks $800 million in debt to restart

Bloomberg A stalled solar-thermal project in northern Chile backed by a US private equity investor is seeking about $800 million in debt to resume construction, according to people familiar with the deal. EIG Global Energy Partners, the US private equity investor that took over the $1 billion Cerro Dominador solar plant last year, has received interest from “several international banks,” ...

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