Energy Update
MELENDUGNO, Italy, Oct 4 (Reuters) - In the name of European
energy security, a private guard wearing a navy blue uniform,
aviator sunglasses and a baseball cap walks around a grove of
olive trees in southern Italy.
SYDNEY, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Mining giants Rio Tinto
and BHP Billiton on Tuesday rebuffed
proposals to replace one of the taxes they must pay on their
iron ore businesses in the state of Western Australia with
annual upfront payments.
MANILA, Oct 4 (Reuters) - The Philippines' Aboitiz Power
Corp said on Tuesday it will acquire stakes held by
funds managed by Blackstone Group LP in a local
coal-fired power plant and another power project under
construction for about $1.2 billion.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 4 (Reuters) - Petróleo Brasileiro SA
and Norway's Statoil ASA are expanding an existing partnership
to help the Brazilian state-controlled company arrest declining
production at aging wells in the offshore Campos Basin, two
people with direct knowledge of the plan said.
(Tue, 04 Oct 2016) In the first half of 2016, the United States exported 4.7 million barrels per day (b/d) of petroleum products, an increase of 500,000 b/d over the first half of 2015 and almost 10 times the crude oil export volume. While U.S. exports of distillate and gasoline increased by 50,000 b/d and nearly 140,000 b/d, respectively, propane exports increased by more than 230,000 b/d. Propane surpassed motor gasoline to become the second-largest U.S.
Net metering is a common rule for the electricity system in nearly every state, allowing folks who generate their own electricity to get a fair credit on their bill for what they generate. But there's more to the concept that a single person with solar on their rooftop...
TOKYO - The Bank of Japan would deepen negative interest
interest rates to thwart any sharp spikes in the yen, which the
central bank sees as an obstacle to stoking inflation and
economic growth, sources familiar with its thinking say.
(JAPAN-ECONOMY/BOJ-YEN, moved, by Leika Kihara, 800 words)
LONDON, Oct 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cities around
the world, including in developing nations, are increasingly
grasping the economic opportunities generated by the need to
tackle climate change and are pursuing concrete partnerships
with business, a climate research group said.
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