CHIBA / Reuters Inpex Corp’s $37 billion Ichthys Australian liquefied natural gas (LNG) project will start shipping ultra-light crude known as condensate by end-2017 and LNG shipments next year, one of the partners in the development said on Tuesday. The comments from Total Chairman and CEO Patrick Pouyanne suggest further slippage in a project that has in recent months …

  Bloomberg It didn’t take long for news that China would set up an economic zone near Beijing to touch off an investor frenzy. Within 24 hours of Saturday’s announcement that the government would create the Xiongan area in Hebei province — in the same spirit that Shenzhen and Shanghai’s Pudong was built — hordes of prospective buyers had thronged …

  Bloomberg Coal India Ltd., the world’s biggest miner of the fuel, missed annual production and shipment targets for at least the fifth year despite reporting record volumes for both. Output grew 2.9 percent to 554.1 million tons during the year ended March, while shipments rose 1.6 percent 543.2 million tons, missing the target of 598.6 million tons for each, …