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Silver Run raises $450 mln in upsized IPO to buy energy companies -source

NEW YORK, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Silver Run Acquisition Corp , a U.S. investment vehicle, raised $450 million in an upsized initial public offering on Tuesday to buy energy companies, indicating investors believe bargains may be found amid the oil price rout.

UPDATE 1-Peru's president linked in court papers to Brazil bribery scheme

SAO PAULO/LIMA, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Brazilian police have uncovered evidence that Peruvian President Ollanta Humala may have received $3 million in bribes from engineering and construction conglomerate Odebrecht, according to federal court filings in Brazil.

CERAWEEK-Colombia's Ecopetrol to sell assets, cut staff amid low oil prices

HOUSTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Colombia's Ecopetrol is selling some non-oil related assets, expecting to collect $1.4 billion at the end of 2017, and cutting 10 percent of staff as part of a cost reduction plan due to low oil prices, the state-run oil firm's chief executive said on Tuesday.

First Solar's quarterly sales fall 6.5 pct

Feb 23 (Reuters) - Solar panel maker First Solar Inc reported a 6.5 percent fall in quarterly sales in a historically slower quarter for solar companies.

Gas industry slow to sign up for voluntary methane cuts

WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. natural gas industry group responsible for persuading companies to voluntarily report their methane emissions says he has not seen - and does not expect to see - a high number of companies participating in the program.

WRAPUP 2-Kerry issues warning as Syrian parties back halt to fighting

BEIRUT/WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebel groups have accepted a plan for a cessation of hostilities to begin on Saturday and the United States warned it would be hard to hold the country together if the fighting does not stop.

Pennsylvania fracking trial begins, pitting families against driller

SCRANTON, Pa., Feb 23 (Reuters) - Cabot Oil & Gas Co contaminated drinking water for two Pennsylvania families in its rush to begin fracking operations during the state's natural gas boom, a lawyer told a federal jury in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday at the start of a civil trial.

Struggling coal companies must face their cleanup costs -U.S. official

WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Struggling coal companies must face the costs of cleaning up their spent mines even as they get pushed toward bankruptcy, the U.S. Interior Secretary said on Tuesday.

CERAWEEK-Saudi Arabia, not U.S. shale, world's swing oil producer-Hess

HOUSTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - OPEC leader Saudi Arabia, not the United States and its shale fields, is the world's true swing oil producer, able to start or stop production quickly in response to demand, the chief executive of Hess Corp said on Tuesday.

UPDATE 3-Kurdish oil flows shut as pipeline sabotaged in Turkey

ISTANBUL, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Kurdistan's oil exports to world markets are set to be suspended for a second week running, a shipping source said, a move that will deprive Iraq's semi-autonomous region of its main revenue stream as the security situation in southeast Turkey worsens.

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