Energy Update
LOS ANGELES, Oct 20 (Reuters) - A press freedom group on
Thursday urged prosecutors in two states to drop charges against
three documentary filmmakers who were arrested while filming
activists as they sought to shut down major oil pipelines from
Canada to the United States.
CALGARY, Alberta, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc
said on Thursday it is selling $1.03 billion worth of
non-core oil and gas properties in western Canada to Tourmaline
Oil Corp, the latest example of the global oil major
trimming its operations in the region.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Brazilian prosecutors
charged 21 people with qualified homicide on Thursday for their
roles in the collapse of a tailings dam at the Samarco Mineração
SA iron ore mine last November that killed 19 people.
MELBOURNE, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Santos Ltd reported a
10 percent rise in sales revenue in the September quarter from
the previous quarter on flat production, and said on Friday it
has started hedging oil prices to help limit volatility and
support capital spending plans.
QUITO, Ecuador, Oct 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The
United Nations formally adopted a global road map to grapple
with rapid urbanization on Thursday, capping nearly two years of
behind-the-scenes international negotiations aimed at designing
development priorities for cities and towns over the long term.
SIRTE, Libya, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Libyan pro-government
forces have freed five foreign nationals held by Islamic State
in Sirte after heavy fighting in their battle to capture the
final district of the city, a local official said on Thursday.
TORONTO, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index inched
higher on Thursday after hitting a near 16-month peak the
previous day, as modest gains in heavyweight gold mining and
banking stocks helped offset weakness among consumer and
industrial names.
CARACAS, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The president of Venezuela's
state-owned oil company PDVSA on Thursday slammed a report of a
legal appeal to let the embattled firm pay bondholders in the
increasingly worthless bolivar currency.
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