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China gas craze gets help from trucks as pipelines can’t keep up

Bloomberg Gas is in such hot demand in China right now it’s allowing a quirky market to flourish: transporting fuel on trucks. Call them pipelines on wheels. The country’s top suppliers are loading liquefied natural gas onto tanker trucks and delivering it to users to make up for insufficient pipeline coverage inland. The method is so effective ENN Group is …

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Equatorial Guinea expects $2.4bn oil investment by 2019

Bloomberg Equatorial Guinea expects international oil companies to spend about $2.4 billion on the nation’s oil and gas industry by the end of next year, a government official said. The investment should include about 11 new wells, the official said, asking not to be identified because the information is private. They didn’t give a breakdown in spending by company. In …

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Kurds add pipeline capacity to export Kirkuk oil

Bloomberg Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurds upgraded their oil export pipeline to accommodate future production growth from their region as well as from the contested Kirkuk area controlled by the central government in Baghdad. The Kurdistan Regional Government completed improvements to the pipeline to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan by installing another pumping station in the Shaikhan area, the KRG’s Ministry of …

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Encana founder slams $5.5bn Newfield deal

Bloomberg Encana Corp.’s founder and former Chief Executive Officer Gwyn Morgan said he’s disappoi- nted by the driller’s $5.5 billion purchase of New- field Exploration, which moves focus to US and dashes hopes that company would represent Canada on world stage. Morgan, who named the oil and gas producer Encana to evoke “Energy Canada,” blames the move on PM Justin …

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Tech slump drags on US stocks as crude advances

Bloomberg US stocks were mixed as investors weighed the outlook for elections this week along with signals that a trade deal between the world’s biggest economies remains a ways off. Oil gained for the first time in a week. Apple Inc. led technology shares lower after a report it won’t boost iPhone production. The Nasdaq 100 Index led declines among …

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Indian stocks fall after best week

Bloomberg India’s stock indexes fell, tracking global peers lower, after capping their best week in more than two years. The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex dropped 0.2 percent to 34,950.92 at the 3:30 pm close in Mumbai after swinging between gains and losses at least four times. Thirteen of the 19 sector indexes retreated, led by a gauge of power-related companies, …

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Barclays fares worst in Europe bank stress tests as Brexit looms

Bloomberg Barclays Plc was the worst performer among 48 banks in Europe’s toughest stress test yet, underscoring the vulnerability of UK lenders to weak growth, credit losses and Brexit. Fellow British lender Lloyds Banking Group Plc didn’t fare much better in the test, with a key measure of financial health falling sharply in the most adverse scenario envisioned by supervisors. …

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One in 10 of Chinese banks flunks PBOC test

Bloomberg About one in 10 of China’s 4,000 banks received a fail rating in the central bank’s first review of the industry’s risks, highlighting challenges facing the nation’s $45 trillion financial system. Four hundred and twenty firms, all rural financial institutions, were deemed extremely risky after scoring eight or higher out of 10, according to the 2018 China Financial Stability …

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Indian bonds rout may end on RBI binge

Bloomberg With India’s central bank emerging as the biggest buyer of government debt, some traders are calling time on a rout that’s lasted more than a year and sent benchmark yields soaring to a four-year high. The Reserve Bank of India bought 860 billion rupees ($11.8 billion) of bonds between May and October, and plans to inject 400 billion rupees …

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