RIYADH / PARIS / Reuters Toshiba-owned Westinghouse is in talks with other US-based companies to form a consortium to bid in a multi-billion-dollar tender for two nuclear power reactors in Saudi Arabia, three industry sources said. Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil producer, sent a request for information (RFI) to reactor builders worldwide last month in a first step towards …

TUNIS / Reuters Libya’s Waha Oil Co is producing about 260,000 barrels per day (bpd), up more than 100,000 bpd from the company’s output levels this summer, but further gains are complicated by a lack of investment, its chairman said. Ahmed Ammar said Waha was aiming to increase output to 375,000 bpd by the end of next year but was …

MOSCOW / Reuters Russia’s oil producers and energy ministry discussed a six-month extension to global oil output cuts, TASS news agency repor-ted, citing unnamed meeting participants, shorter than a 9-month extension floated by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Energy Minister Alexander Novak and domestic oil producers held a meeting last week to discuss the deal, which is scheduled to expire on …