Bloomberg Oil steadied near $62 a barrel on estimates that US crude stockpiles declined for an eighth week as the rebalancing of global markets continues. Futures added as much as 1.3 percent in New York to the highest intraday level in almost three years. US inventories probably fell by 3.75 million barrels last week, according to a Bloomberg survey before ...

Bloomberg OPEC’s strategy to end a worldwide crude glut is causing havoc for a vital link in the oil industry’s supply chain: the fleet of supertankers that shuttle fuel between continents. The ships’ average earnings plunged last year by more than half to levels not seen since 2009 and far below what shipping analysts had been predicting. Now, the producer ...

TUNIS / Reuters Libya’s National Oil Corp (NOC) said it had won two international arbitration cases over the 220,000 bpd-capacity Ras Lanuf refinery, and called for the refinery to restart as soon as possible. The NOC said in a statement that the arbitration cases, which date to 2013, had been settled in its favour at the International Chamber of Commerce ...