KHOBAR / Reuters State oil firm Saudi Aramco said the first phase of a new Energy Industrial City in Saudi Arabia will be completed in 2021. Last week, the Saudi government said it approved Saudi Aramco’s plans to set up two new companies that will develop and operate the new Energy Industrial City as the kingdom seeks to expand its …

Bloomberg The eclipse set to darken skies next month threatens to sideline solar farms and rooftop panels in a wide swath of the US, wiping out enough power generation to supply about 7 million homes. This rare event, during which the moon will completely obscure the sun, will cast a shadow along a 70-mile-wide (113-kilometer) corridor stretching from Oregon to …

Bloomberg Oil markets shrugged off a spill that shut a pipeline crossing Texas, signaling no immediate shortage of space to haul crude from the region’s prolific Permian Basin to Houston-area refineries. The 1,200-barrel release on Magellan Midstream Partners LP’s 275,000 barrel-a-day Longhorn system near Austin started after a contractor struck the pipeline while doing maintenance, according to a company statement. …