Bloomberg Oil prices traded below $52 a barrel as investors eye the potential return of crude volumes from Libya amid continuing tension in the OPEC member that’s exempt from output cuts. Futures were down as much as 0.8 percent in New York following a 2 percent gain on Friday. Libyan oil-facility guards backtracked on an agreement to allow supply ...

  Bloomberg Investors are the most optimistic on oil since the slump began two and a half years ago. Money managers boosted bets on rising West Texas Intermediate crude prices to the highest level since July 2014 after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and producers outside the group agreed to coordinate crude production cuts. Prices advanced to a 17-month ...

  Bloomberg Saudi Aramco plans to commission its wind turbine pilot project, the first in the kingdom, next month, the state oil company said on Sunday, part of nationwide plans to diversify energy supplies and to meet an increase in demand. The wind turbine, supplied by U.S. company General Electric will provide power to Saudi Aramco’s bulk plant in Turaif, ...