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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

BRUSSELS, April 7 (Reuters) - Russia is ignoring invitations from the European Commission to broker new gas supply talks between Moscow and Kiev, the CEO of Ukraine's state oil firm Naftogaz said on Thursday.

TORONTO, April 7 (Reuters) - Acquisitions in the utility sector and a major cross-border pipeline transaction helped drive the volume of Canadian M&A activity up 48 percent in the first quarter of 2016, even though the number of deals declined.

A partly sunny compromise on solar energy legislation, hammered out after five months of negotiation, moved favorably Wednesday afternoon from the Massachusetts House to the Senate, where action is scheduled for today. While some renewable energy advocates support the compromise that the House approved overwhemingly, they caution it's a short-term fix.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory recently said that rooftop solar panels have the potential to generate nearly 40 percent of electricity in the U.S. But what about the cost of going solar?

* Ceasefire broadly holds, despite violations (Adds Medvedev comments, changes dateline)

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