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REFILE-UPDATE 1-High life, low coal price sends Australian mining baron bankrupt

SYDNEY, March 3 (Reuters) - Rags-to-riches coal mining baron Nathan Tinkler, who rode the mining boom to become Australia's youngest billionaire before losing it all when coal prices collapsed, has been declared legally bankrupt after failing to pay off a private jet.

UPDATE 1-High life, low coal price sends Australian mining baron bankrupt

* Private jets, horses, sports teams all gone (Adds quotes, details)

McClendon remembered as energy 'visionary' despite controversy

NEW YORK/HOUSTON, March 2 (Reuters) - Aubrey McClendon, an oil and gas entrepreneur whose outsized ambition and high tolerance for risk propelled him to become a leading figure in the American energy revolution, died in a single-car crash on Wednesday in Oklahoma City.

COLUMN-Saudi price rise for Asia suggests tentative oil recovery: Russell

LAUNCESTON, Australia, March 3 (Reuters) - - Saudi Arabia's decision to raise oil prices to its main customers in Asia may just be another sign that crude markets are indeed on the road to recovery.

UPDATE 1-Oil prices edge up on rising confidence that market has bottomed

SINGAPORE, March 3 (Reuters) - Oil prices edged up on Thursday as sentiment spread that a 20-month long market rout may have come to an end as production slows amid strong demand.

Young rags-to-riches Australian coal baron Tinkler declared bankrupt

SYDNEY, March 3 (Reuters) - Rags-to-riches coal mining baron Nathan Tinkler, who rode the mining boom to become Australia's youngest billionaire before losing it all when coal prices collapsed, has been declared legally bankrupt after failing to pay off a private jet.

US oil prices steady on strong refinery runs, but swelling stockpiles weigh

SINGAPORE, March 3 (Reuters) - U.S. crude prices were steady early on Thursday supported by rising refining activity while swelling crude stocks weighed, but analysts said that a 20-month market rout had likely bottomed out.

Pampa Energia offers $1.2bn to acquire stake in Petrobras’ Argentina unit

Brazilian state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) has reportedly received a $1.2bn offer from Argentina's Pampa Energia to sell its 67.2% stake sale in its Argentina subsidiary.

UPDATE 3-Vale/BHP's Samarco to pay $5 bln in damages for dam disaster

BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO March 2 (Reuters) - Mining company Samarco and its owners, BHP Billiton and Vale SA , reached a deal with the Brazilian government on Wednesday to pay an estimated 20 billion reais ($5.1 billion) in damages over 15 years for a deadly dam spill in November.

SunEdison suspends quarterly dividends on preferred stock

March 2 (Reuters) - SunEdison Inc said on Wednesday it suspended payment of quarterly dividends on its preferred stock, two days after the embattled solar company delayed filing its annual report amid an internal investigation into its financial position.

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