Bloomberg India’s first producer of natural gas from coal seams in the country’s oldest mining region will spend about $1 billion to look for some of the newest forms of energy. Great Eastern Energy Corp. will invest as much as 20 billion rupees ($312 million) over the next four to five years to drill 144 new wells at its Raniganj ...

Bloomberg BHP Billiton Ltd. is considering further sales of its US shale gas assets as it fends off the second round of attack from activist hedge fund Elliott Management Corp. over the future of the energy business within the world’s biggest mining company. “If there is a natural owner out there who believes more upside can be achieved within this ...

Bloomberg Chevron Corp.’s Gorgon liquefied natural gas plant shut a produ-ction train for about a month, at least the eighth outage since operations started 14 months ago at the most-expensive project in the company’s history. Train 1 at the $54 billion project on Barrow Island off northwest Australia shut last week to replace a failed flow-measurement device, Cameron Van Ast, ...