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Pemex’s $12.5b refinery sees higher costs

  Bloomberg Petroleos Mexicanos’ beleaguered mega-refinery project in Dos Bocas could run at least $4.7 billion over budget with just months to go before its grand opening. Pemex, as the state-owned oil company is known, has budgeted $12.5 billion for the project through the end of 2022, and is expected to spend some $2 billion more on the project, according ...

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European gas declines as buyers ready to cope with supply risk

Bloomberg Natural gas prices in Europe declined the most in a month with majors buyers in the region saying they can ride out the latest threat to Russian supply. Benchmark futures fell 9.2%, and posted a weekly loss. Russian shipments through Ukraine have dropped this week, but stayed broadly stable — near the lowest since late April — based on ...

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US Vice President Harris is breaking a whole lot of ties

Vice President Kamala Harris voted six times to break Senate ties this week. That brings her total to 23 ties broken, a record pace. She’s already third all-time, behind only John C Calhoun (31 from 1825-1832) and John Adams (29 from 1789-1797). What she’s voted on tells an important story about the Senate. None of it has been regular legislation. ...

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