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BP focuses new investments on North Sea development
British oil giant BP aims to invest $1 billion (£640 million) developing key North Sea assets, at a time when other oil companies want to quit the ageing UK North Sea basin.
read more... 06/08/2015
RWE to cut back its units to restructure its business
The largest power generator in Germany RWE envisages slashing its middle-management and to trim by about more than half from its 100 local subsidiaries in order to deal more promptly to the country’s energy sector revolution.
read more... 05/08/2015
Egypt expected to purchase 7.79m tonnes of LNG this fiscal year
Egypt’s planning ministry unveiled it envisages importing 28.6 million tonnes of crude oil, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and other oil products worth a total of almost $16 billion in 2015-16.
read more... 04/08/2015
Daily: European power forward prices plunge to two-month lows due to low fuel prices
Crude oil prices declined 5 percent on Monday to hit their weakest level since January, dragging down global benchmark Brent below $50 a barrel as weak factory activity in China dipped a commodity-wide rout. Brent crude closed down $2.69, or 5.2 percent, to touch $49.52 a barrel. U.S. crude dropped $1.95, or 4.1 percent, to hit $45.17, just about $3 above its 2015 bottom.
read more... 04/08/2015
Daily: WTI crude oil registers the largest decline since 2008
WTI crude registered its largest monthly decline since 2008 financial collapse on Friday after a series of losses in July caused by China’s inventories market slump and on evidence that main Middle East producers were pumping crude at record levels. U.S. crude dropped $1.40, or almost 3 percent, to settle at $47.32 a barrel. It eased more than 2 percent on the week. Brent crude decreased by $1.10, or 2 percent, to close at $52.21 a barrel. It lost 5 percent on the week and 18 percent on the month.
read more... 03/08/2015