Bloomberg OPEC’s Libya plans to almost double crude production next year even as the producer group tries to implement a deal to trim production and ease a global supply glut. The country with Africa’s largest crude reserves currently produces 600,000 barrels a day, state-run National Oil Corp. Chairman Mustafa Sanalla said in a statement posted on the company’s website. …

  Kuwait City / AFP Kuwait must enact further subsidy reforms to trim its budget deficit resulting from low oil prices despite political sensitivity, the International Monetary Fund has said. Posting its first budget shortfall of $15 billion last fiscal year following 16 years of surpluses, OPEC member Kuwait has adopted a series of austerity measures raising the prices of …

  Bloomberg Siemens AG Chief Executive Officer Joe Kaeser said he expects revenue from Saudi Arabia to reach $5 billion by 2020 as Europe’s biggest engineering company focuses on energy projects and emerging markets. The first orders from Saudi Arabia are expected in the 2017 fiscal year, bolstered by spending on alternative energy sources like wind farms, Kaeser said in …