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...US oil and gas producers are among companies hit hardest by new restrictions on tax relief for interest payments, an analysis of the impact of the reforms has shown....
...& Gas and petrochem/refining etc; and FX risk in emerging markets....
...Business confidence has been rocked by a sharp fall in oil prices, which has dented state revenues that had been expected to flow after ExxonMobil’s liquefied natural gas plant came on stream in 2014....
...‘Strictly confidential’ Glen Wurm, director of accounting at AFGlobal Corp, which makes products for the aerospace, oil and gas industries, received an email in May 2014 similar to that sent to Scoular....
...Another drilling vessel, Noble Corporation’s Noble Discoverer, is in position nine miles away from the Polar Pioneer at the Burger V prospect, waiting for the other rig to finish, although it will also need...
...Oil explorer Afren slipped 14.1 per cent awaiting details of a debt-for-equity swap, which were released after Friday’s close of trade....
...But the oil price has continued to fall. So we need to act now for the long term. I am today cutting in half the Supplementary Charge on oil and gas from 20% to 10%....
...That is Act V, and we are not there yet. For now we are still very definitely in the age of hydrocarbons....
...Americas Canada: Housing starts fell more than expected in August to a seasonally adjusted rate of 180,300 units compared with 193,000 units in July, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation...
...The UK government is facing pressure from human rights activists about why it has chosen to intervene in a US court case connected to oil major Royal Dutch Shell....
...A judge in Regina v....
...“Medium twins upwards, including heavy machinery, have been more buoyant – because of demand from the oil and gas industry.”...
...Most oil and gas now comes from outside the developed world....
...We note the Joint Oil Data Initiative as managed by the International Energy Forum (IEF) and welcome their efforts to examine the expansion of their data collection to natural gas....
...In the past four years, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, the state oil giant, has gone on a shopping spree. But, in countries from Burma to Angola, the Chinese have mostly got there first....
...And what do you say when Chinese companies help to develop Iran’s oil and gas reserves?...
...Nor will the show display much sign that consumers – except in North America – are being wooed away in significant numbers from large gas-guzzling sports-utility vehicles (although there is a growing trend...
...Oil and gas: Statoil, Norway’s energy group, won partly because of its drive for a more international focus....
...Roland Götz, Russia expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and a fervent supporter of such engagement, says Russia’s decision to let more gas flow into the Ukrainian pipeline...
...This year Cox is in charge of strategies to make BP as “great a gas company as it is an oil company”....
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