Bloomberg Iraq began using a new offshore crude-exporting facility to boost shipments by sea and make up for a drop in pipeline exports from the country’s north due to a conflict with the self-governed Kurdish region. The supertanker Chloe, which can transport about 2 million barrels of oil, moored at the new loading point in the Persian Gulf off the …

Bloomberg Equatorial Guinea, OPEC’s newest member, is taking steps to stem the decline in its oil production following the acquisition by Kosmos Energy Ltd. and Trident Energy Management Ltd. of fields currently operated by Hess Corp.For two to three years there has been a trend of US companies operating in Africa, but not re-investing there, said the nation’s Minister of …

Bloomberg The biggest US grid operator is asking regulators to reject Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s plan to prop up ailing coal and nuclear plants. “I don’t know how this proposal could be implemented without a detrimental impact on the market,” Andrew Ott, who heads up PJM Interconnection LLC, told reporters by phone. Perry’s proposal is “discriminatory” and inconsistent with federal …