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Libya’s biggest port loading first oil tanker since clashes

  Bloomberg Libya’s biggest oil terminal is loading its first tanker since fighting between armed groups earlier this month halted shipments from two ports in the country with Africa’s largest crude reserves. The Suezmax vessel Demetrios, which can carry as much as one million barrels, is loading at the port of Es Sider for export to China, according to a ...

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Shell sells Gabon oil assets to Carlyle for $587 million

  Bloomberg Royal Dutch Shell Plc has agreed to sell its onshore oil assets in Gabon to a unit of Carlyle Group LP for $587 million, taking it closer to its $30 billion divestment target. Carlyle’s unit Assala Energy Holdings Ltd. will also take on $285 million of debt from Shell’s Gabon unit and will make an additional payment of ...

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Sinopec profit rises as pipeline sales top up refining boost

  Bloomberg China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. reported its first profit gain in three years as the world’s largest oil refiner got a boost from cheaper crude and took a one-time gain from pipeline sales. Net income in 2016 rose 44 percent to 46.7 billion yuan ($6.8 billion), the company known as Sinopec said in a statement to the Shanghai ...

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