Bloomberg Baytex Energy Corp. agreed to buy rival western Canadian oil producer Raging River Exploration Inc., in a deal valued at C$1.6 billion ($1.2 billion) that includes about 260,000 acres in the emerging East Duvernay Shale basin. Under the pact, holders of common shares of Raging River will receive 1.36 common shares of Baytex for each Raging River Share owned, …

Bloomberg On a tropical island just off the coast of Nigeria, hundreds of engineers work around the clock to produce liquefied natural gas at a plant the size of Lower Manhattan. Operator Nigeria LNG Ltd says it will decide later this year whether to invest more than $10 billion to boost capacity by 40 percent. That would allow the Bonny …

Bloomberg China’s efforts to cool solar power capacity growth will cut electricity generation costs and the industry’s reliance on government subsidies that helped drive record installations last year, the People’s Daily reported. Electricity rates paid to solar developers haven’t fallen in line with photovoltaic panel costs and clean energy developers are owed more than 120 billion yuan ($18.7 billion) in …