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SOFIA, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Bulgaria's anti-monopoly watchdog has launched an investigation into the country's only oil refinery and seven fuel retailers over possible cartel agreements to fix prices of petrol and diesel fuels, it said on Thursday.

* Capital hike, reactor unit sale proceeds due after Sept (Adds union official comments, Le Monde report on banks)

Members of the U.S. House and Senate, largely from the Republican side of the aisle, have told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, published in final form last October, is illegal and should be struck down.

ACCRA, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Ghana's government will not repeat mistakes made during the last election and will maintain strict fiscal discipline ahead of the 2016 vote, President John Mahama told parliament in an annual State of the Nation address on Thursday.

ANKARA, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Russian energy giant Gazprom has reduced natural gas supplies to private sector companies in Turkey by 10 percent due to a price dispute, officials at Turkey's energy ministry told Reuters on Thursday.

BRATISLAVA, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Slovakia's economy ministry said on Thursday it had signed a memorandum of understanding for U.S. energy firm Theta Energy to potentially invest $600-800 million to modernise the Vojany power station in the east of the country.

SOFIA, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Bulgaria's anti-monopoly watchdog has launched an investigation into the country's only oil refinery and seven fuel retailers for possible cartel agreements to fix prices of petrol and diesel fuels, it said on Wednesday.

Feb 25 (Reuters) - Oil and gas producer Apache Corp cut its annual capital budget by nearly two-thirds and reported a quarterly loss smaller than analysts had expected as its costs fell.

LONDON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - The European Investment Bank has agreed to provide 500 million pounds ($699 million) to UK Power Networks to improve energy infrastructure in southern and eastern England, it said on Thursday.

Feb 25 (Reuters) - Apache Corp set a 2016 capital budget more than 60 percent lower than its 2015 expenditure and the oil and gas producer reported a bigger quarterly loss due to $5.9 billion in writedowns and impairment charges.

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