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Oil rally fizzles as prices made vulnerable by Libyan recovery

  Bloomberg Oil’s rally above $50 a barrel is running out of steam after Libyan production returns, bringing the focus back to OPEC. Futures in New York extended losses after dropping 0.7 percent on Monday, following a 5.5 percent jump last week. While OPEC output fell by 200,000 barrels a day in March, the decline was helped by cuts in ...

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Ichthys to start shipping LNG early 2018

  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 ...

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China’s ‘new Shenzhen’ plan spurs speculative rampage

  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 ...

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