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OPEC to discuss output cut without Iran, Iraq ministers

  Bloomberg OPEC and Russia will meet in Doha on Thursday for another round of talks without ministers from Iran and Iraq, the two countries that pose the biggest obstacle to a deal to cut production. Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries are “all hands on deck” to reach an agreement by the group’s Nov. 30 meeting in ...

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Investment penury risks new oil shock: IEA

  Paris / AFP The lack of investment in new oil projects risks creating a new market upheaval in several years, the International Energy Agency warned on Wednesday. “We estimate that, if new project approvals remain low for a third year in a row in 2017, then it becomes increasingly unlikely that demand… and supply can be matched in the ...

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‘Red Sea ‘megacity’ an example for Saudi reforms’

  Riyadh / AFP As Saudi Arabia seeks to diversify its oil-dependent economy, the chief of a Red Sea “megacity” says his project is pointing the way forward. A decade after its conception, the King Abdullah Economic City — an integrated industrial, residential and tourism centre — is profitable and in line with a government push which intensified this year ...

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