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Mexican power plants boost dirty fuel oil use

Bloomberg Fuel that is so dirty that the global shipping industry banned its use last year is being burned at the highest level in three years in Mexican power plants. With the global shipping industry shunning sulfurous fuel oil to curb emissions, storage tanks in Mexico are overflowing with the stuff. The solution for Mexico is to push more of ...

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Marathon plans $10b buyback after Speedway sale

Bloomberg Marathon Petroleum plans to repurchase as much as $10 billion of stock after the US oil refiner completed the sale of its Speedway fuel retail chain. The plan starts with a cash tender offer to buy as much as $4 billion of shares, or about 10% of its current market value, the company said. The repurchase would be the ...

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Philippine Air mulls Chapter 11, in talks to reduce its fleet

Bloomberg Philippine Airlines Inc is in talks with plane lessors about reducing its fleet size and has told them it’s considering a Chapter 11 filing in the US to carry out a restructuring, according to people familiar with the plan. The airline could return at least two Airbus SE A350s to lessors and four of the 10 Boeing Co. 777s ...

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