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Once cash rich, India’s demands erode 90% of ONGC’s warchest

Bloomberg India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp., which once had $4.3 billion of funds, is now bleeding cash. The state-run company’s cash reserves have shrunk by more than 90 percent in the past year, after it was ordered to purchase the administration’s stake in a refiner and it paid a record dividend. ONGC’s reserves dropped to about 10 billion rupees ...

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No Brexit for energy as UK set to draw more power from EU

Bloomberg As the UK government works to exit the European Union, the nation’s electric utilities are working to get closer. Power already flows between the UK, France, Ireland and Northern Ireland through four interconnector cables, and work is under way to more than quadruple the capacity of those links. The cables will establish a stronger physical tie with the continent ...

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Botswana coal miner sees opportunity in ‘shortages’

Bloomberg Botswana’s sole operating coal mine will increase output almost threefold within seven years as it eyes export opportunities created by a shortage of the fuel that’s used to fire most of southern Africa’s power plants. Morupule Coal Mine in the east of the country will ramp up annual production to 8 million metric tonnes by 2025 from 2.8 million ...

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