Bloomberg An acceleration in economic growth in South Africa could trigger power cuts, with state utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd.’s fragile generation system unable to respond to increased demand for electricity. The energy availability of Eskom’s generation fleet is supposed to be as high as 80%, but is currently as low as 69%, and even a 0.1% rise in gross …

Bloomberg Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta is extending its output cuts by a year as delays to key pipelines threaten to prolong a glut of crude in the region. The curtailment program, which will now end in December 2020, had been slated to wrap up at the end of this year as Enbridge Inc.’s expansion of the Line 3 pipeline …

Bloomberg Rosneft PJSC’s second-quarter net income fell as the Russian giant suffered the effects of weaker oil prices and production cuts, but the decline was less severe than analysts expected. While the results show the impact on Rosneft of the Druzhba crisis, in which millions of barrels of exports to central Europe via the Soviet-era pipeline were contaminated with chemicals, …