Bloomberg Saudi Arabia maintained its spot as China’s top oil supplier in February, two months into the first OPEC output cuts in almost a decade, with shipments up 5 percent on a daily basis from January, data showed on Thursday. China imported in February 4.77 million tonnes of crude oil from Saudi Arabia, about 1.24 million barrels per day …

  Bloomberg Algeria’s state-run energy producer plans to boost crude oil output by 14 percent in the four years to 2019 and invest billions of dollars in exploration projects. Sonatrach Group expects to invest $9 billion from 2017 to 2021 in its search for new deposits of oil and natural gas, said Farid Djettou, head of the company’s associations division, …

  Bloomberg Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. could receive another lifeline from lenders as the world’s biggest shipbuilder needs cash to complete work on pending orders to stay afloat. Korea Development Bank and Export-Import Bank of Korea will provide 2.9 trillion won ($2.6 billion) in additional loans and swap about 1.6 trillion won of debt to equity, Korea Development …