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SYDNEY/LONDON Oct 13 (Reuters) - Anglo American is
expected to finalise a $1 billion-plus sale of its Australian
coal assets to a group headed by private equity group Apollo
Global Management in the coming weeks, three sources
with knowledge of the deal said.

Oct 13 (Reuters) - Oil producer RSP Permian Inc
said it would buy oil and gas company Silver Hill Energy
Partners for about $2.4 billion to expand its assets in the
Permian Basin in Texas.

BRASILIA, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Brazil ruled
on Thursday that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will
stand trial for an alleged bribery scheme related to work by
construction giant Odebrecht in Angola.

Oct 13 (Reuters) - Gabon's cabinet has cut its 2017 budget
by over 5 percent as persistently low crude prices and falling
output pressure the oil-producing Central African economy, it
said in a statement on Thursday.

Jenn Runyon, Chief Editor of Renewable Energy World and Paula Mints, Chief Market Research Analyst with SPV Market Research discuss three hot topics in the global solar industry for three minutes each. Today’s topics are the government imposed tariffs, ohw low solar module prices are affecting manufacturers and Florida’s Amendment 1.

Oct 13 (Reuters) - A documentary filmmaker who was arrested
while filming as protesters attempted to shut down the flow of
oil through pipelines carrying crude from Canada to the United
States was charged on Thursday with felony conspiracy.

CALGARY, Alberta/NEW YORK, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Pipeline
sabotage by environmental activists that shook the North
American energy industry this week had its roots in a 2013
protest off Massachusetts, when two men in a 32-foot lobster
boat blocked a 40,000-ton coal shipment to a power station.

Oct 13 (Reuters) - The eye of Nicole, a Category Three
hurricane, is now moving away from Bermuda while continuing to
bring storm surge flooding to the island, the National Hurricane
Center (NHC) said on Thursday.

CHICAGO, Oct 13 (Reuters) - U.S. coal freight volumes, in
decline for close to two years, will fall further, though the
slowing pace of drop should ease the shock to U.S. railroads,
the top executive of No. 3 U.S. railroad CSX Corp said
on Thursday.

WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Former Democratic
presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and four other U.S.
senators on Thursday called on President Barack Obama to order a
comprehensive environmental review of a pipeline project that
has stirred widespread opposition from Native Americans and
environmental activists.

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