Energy Update
HOUSTON, May 16 (Reuters) - Texas Attorney General Ken
Paxton asked a state judge on Monday to block U.S. Virgin
Islands officials from subpoenaing 40 years of internal climate
change documents from Exxon Mobil Corp, saying the probe
is "a fishing expedition of the worst kind."
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 16 (Reuters) - Brazil's Environment
Minister, José Sarney Filho said on Monday he will not allow
Samarco Mineração SA to reopen its iron ore mine
without assurances that the causes and damages of a deadly
tailings dam collapse were fixed.
SYDNEY, May 16 (Reuters) - Monaco-based oil services company
Unaoil denied on Monday a media report linking it to corrupt
practices involving big oil companies said it has been the
victim of an extortion attempt by unidentified criminals.
TORONTO, May 16 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index
rallied more than one percent to a two-week high on Monday, with
energy stocks leading broad-based gains as oil surged.
WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - Colombia has failed to
enforce worker protections in a free trade agreement with the
United States, U.S. and Colombian labor unions said on Monday,
raising questions about similar provisions in the massive
Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
CALGARY, Alberta, May 16 (Reuters) - Junior oil sands
producer Connacher Oil and Gas Ltd filed for protection
from creditors at an Alberta court on Monday, making it the
latest Canadian victim of the two-year slump in global crude
prices.
SAO PAULO May 16 (Reuters) - Brazil's interim president,
Michel Temer, on Monday said he would continue a tradition of
nominating a prosecutor general who comes recommended by peers,
allaying concerns about judicial independence.
HOUSTON, May 16 (Reuters) - A coking unit at LyondellBasell
Industries' Houston refinery is expected to restart
between late May and mid-June for the first time since being
damaged in an April 8 fire, Gulf Coast market sources said on
Monday.
ALGIERS, May 16 (Reuters) - A subsidiary of Algerian state
energy company Sonatrach has awarded two Chinese firms a $40
million deal to deliver a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carrier
and an option to provide a second vessel, according to a
Sonatrach document seen by Reuters.
NEW YORK, May 16 (Reuters) - U.S. shale oil output is
expected to fall in June for the eighth consecutive month,
according to a U.S. government forecast on Monday, as the
squeeze from a two-year rout in crude prices worsens.
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