TUNIS / Reuters Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) said it was investigating security violations that had taken place in recent days at Sharara oil field, the country’s largest. The NOC gave no detail of the incidents in a statement released late on Sunday, but said the head of security at the field had reported that the breaches were due to …

DUBAI / Reuters Saudi Arabia’s Jabal Omar Development Co, one of the largest listed property developers in the country, plans to raise 4 billion riyals ($1.1 billion) with local currency sukuk issues, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday. The company, which has taken out bank loans over the past few years to back its flagship development in Mecca, …

BEIJING / Reuters Chinese oil refineries operated in July at their lowest daily rates since September 2016, official data showed on Monday, to ease brimming inventories as state-owned oil giants faced off independents in a retail petrol price war. China, the world’s second-largest oil consumer, processed 45.5 million tonnes of crude in July, or 10.71 million barrels per day (bpd), …