Bloomberg Oil was little changed before the release of US inventory data, while OPEC and its allies reassured traders that they’ll complete their strategy to clear a global crude surplus. Futures slipped 0.5 percent in New York after rising 1.1 percent. Government data on is forecast to show that inventories of crude oil fell and gasoline rose, both for the ...

TOKYO/KUALA LUMPUR / Reuters Malaysian state energy company Petroliam Nasional Bhd, or Petronas, signed a three-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply agreement with JERA Co, with smaller volumes and for a shorter period than its previous deal with the biggest LNG buyer in Japan. JERA, the fuel purchasing joint venture between Tokyo Electric Power and Chubu Electric Power, will buy ...

Bloomberg Venezuela’s biggest market for crude sales — the US — is becoming a harder and harder place for the socialist nation’s oil producer to do business as sanctions and diminishing quality controls discourage would-be buyers. Oil sales to US buyers have fallen for two straight months and now are 56 percent lower than their 2016 average, according to ship-tracking ...