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BRASILIA, April 7 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's government rejected new accusations on Thursday that her election was illegally funded with graft money and expressed confidence it can block an attempt to impeach her.

LOS ANGELES, April 7 (Reuters) - Southern California Gas Co aims to partially restore operations at its crippled Aliso Canyon storage field by late summer, but the facility, scene of the worst-ever U.S. methane leak, will probably take a year to reopen fully, utility officials said on Thursday.

Evoqua has been selected to provide carbon adsorption equipment for the $2.1bn Sohar refinery improvement project (SRIP) in Sohar Port, Liwa, Oman.

HOUSTON, April 7 (Reuters) - A fire erupted at Exxon Mobil Corp's Baytown, Texas refinery on Thursday afternoon, sending a large plume of black smoke into the air that was visible for miles across Houston.

CARACAS, April 7 (Reuters) - Venezuela specified on Thursday that public sector employees, save those in the food industry, would receive Fridays off until a drought stops hurting hydropower generation.

NEW YORK, April 7 (Reuters) - A plume of black smoke near Houston's Ship Channel that was visible from miles away originated at Exxon Mobil Corp's Baytown, Texas, facility according to the Coast Guard's Vessel Traffic Service.

LAGOS, April 7 (Reuters) - Nigeria will get $200 million in badly-needed hard currency from oil majors to pay for fuel imports and ease petrol shortages hitting the OPEC producer, the head of state-run oil firm NNPC said.

HOUSTON, April 7 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp's Baytown, Texas, refinery, the country's second largest, has begun increasing production levels for the first time since cutting back in early February due to a glut of gasoline in the United States, sources familiar with plant operations said.

April 7 (Reuters) - TransCanada Corp said on Thursday about 400 barrels could have spilled in South Dakota from its 590,000 barrel-per-day Keystone crude oil pipeline.

* TSX closed down 81.02 points, or 0.61 percent, at 13,266.44

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