Energy Update
GE Oil & Gas has signed a major agreement with MODEC, an owner/operator and Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI general contractor of floating production systems including Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO), to supply and service gas turbines for FPSOs in Brazil.
WASHINGTON/TAMPA, Sept 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. State
Department and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
on Tuesday stressed the need for ties with the Philippines to be
based on mutual respect, after Manila's new leader raised
worries about the future of the key alliance by calling
President Barack Obama a "son of a bitch."
HOUSTON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency will order wastewater disposal wells shut near
the epicenter of a 5.6 magnitude earthquake that struck on
Saturday around Pawnee, Oklahoma, local media reported on
Tuesday.
BRASILIA, Sept 6 (Reuters) - The government of Brazil's new
President Michel Temer scrambled on Tuesday to distance itself
from a multibillion-dollar corruption scandal that broke less
than a week after he took office, involving fraud in the
country's largest pension funds.
SAO PAULO, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Brazil could increase its
carbon emissions by up to 21 percent from 2014 to 2030 and still
meet its pledge under the 2015 Paris climate agreement to fight
global warming, according to a study released on Tuesday.
LIBREVILLE, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Gabon's re-elected President
Ali Bongo came under international scrutiny on Tuesday, as a
European Union mission questioned the validity of his narrow
win, France recommended a recount and the African Union said it
would send mediators.
SAO PAULO, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-run oil company
Petroleo Brasileiro SA agreed to sell 90
percent of its natural gas pipeline unit to a group of investors
led by Canada's Brookfield Asset Management Inc for
$5.2 billion, a source with direct knowledge of the deal said on
Tuesday.
BARCELONA, Sept 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After this
week's G20 summit in China failed to set a target year to phase
out hundreds of billions of dollars in state subsidies for
polluting fossil fuels, green groups and experts are urging
Germany to finish the job as host of next year's summit.
LONDON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it
would go along with a freeze in oil output if other producers
agreed one but cautioned that Iran could foil any attempt to
limit output.
The United States and China on Sept. 3 formally joined the Paris Agreement in a ceremony in Hangzhou, China, ahead of the G20 Summit. President Obama and President Xi both deposited their country’s official instrument with United Nations Secretary, General Ban-Ki Moon.
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