Bloomberg First Solar Inc. took the wraps off its long-awaited Series 6 panel, but isn’t turning its back on the workhorse model that’s been sustaining the company. Unexpected demand for its Series 4 product boosted 2017 revenue, especially in the second half, and will help the company earn as much as $2.30 a share in a year when it had …

Bloomberg Oil exploration in Norway’s Arctic seems to have lost some of its appeal after a disappointing drilling campaign. Only 11 companies applied for exploration licenses in the latest round — the nation’s 24th — which focused heavily on the Barents Sea, the Petroleum and Energy Ministry said in a statement on its website. That’s down from 26 in the …

JUBA / Reuters South Sudan still owes neighbouring Sudan $1.3 billion from a 2012 deal that ended a dispute over oil payments between the two nations, the deputy finance minister told Reuters before he was sacked last week. The previously undisclosed amount is equivalent to eight years worth of oil revenues for South Sudan at current prices, according to former …