Bloomberg Oil retreated on renewed concerns over demand as some of the world’s biggest traders warned that a recovery is still some way off as the pandemic continues to cast a shadow over the market. US benchmark crude futures fall as much as 2.2%. Global confirmed deaths from the coronavirus — which has eviscerated energy demand — topped 1 million. …

Bloomberg India is considering a floor price for natural gas produced from local fields to shield explorers like state-run Oil & Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) as tariff slumps, people with knowledge of the matter said. Shares of explorers gained. The proposal being considered by the oil ministry pegs the price to the popular benchmark Japan-Korea Marker that is used for …

Bloomberg Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowed to restore the national oil company to its former glory. Instead, Petroleos Mexicanos is drowning in debt, its oil output is declining, and now it appears to be losing fuel market share in its own backyard. In the past 21 months of the Lopez Obrador administration, Pemex has lost roughly 13% of …