Bloomberg Oil traded near $46 a barrel as crude production rebounded in Libya, an OPEC member exempt from output curbs. Futures gained 0.3 percent in New York after sliding 1.1 percent on Monday. Libya has increased output to 1.1 million barrels a day, according to a person familiar with the matter. The country will attend a meeting with some OPEC ...

Bloomberg Vitol Group, the world’s largest independent oil trader, walked away from a deal to buy a stake in the Richards Bay Coal Terminal from a company controlled by South Africa’s Gupta family. “The consortium comprising Vitol and Burgh Group Holdings will not be proceeding with the acquisition,” the commodities-trading house said in a statement. The proposed deal, first reported ...

Bloomberg Petronet LNG Ltd. sees a lifeline arriving for its loss-making Kochi liquefied natural gas import terminal by 2019 after it boosts capacity use fourfold. The only LNG terminal in southern India is operating at about 10 percent of its 5 million-ton-a-year capacity, according to Finance Director R.K. Garg. Capacity use may increase to 2 million tons annually after a ...