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Islamic state threatens more Libyan oil facility attacks -video

CAIRO, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Islamic State threatened on Thursday to attack more Libyan oil facilities following an earlier attack on oil installations close to the Ras Lanuf terminal where at least two storage tanks from the Harouge Oil Operations company had been set on fire.

The Oil Big Five: What news is good news for oil in 2016?

From Western Canada to the Saudi-Iran conflict, our topics highlighted in January's iteration of The Oil Big Five point out some the biggest things to watch in the global oil markets.

UPDATE 1-Turkey's Koc Holding chairman suffers heart attack -hospital official

ISTANBUL, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Mustafa Koc, chairman of Turkey's biggest conglomerate Koc Holding and one of the country's best-known corporate figures, has suffered a heart attack and is being treated in hospital, a hospital official told Reuters on Thursday.

Militants attack near Libya's Ras Lanuf oil terminal - sources

BENGHAZI, Libya, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Suspected Islamic State militants attacked oil installations close to Libya's Ras Lanuf terminal on Thursday, an engineer at the port and an energy official allied with the country's eastern government said.

Turkey's Koc Holding chairman suffers heart attack - hospital official

ISTANBUL, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Mustafa Koc, chairman of Turkey's biggest conglomerate Koc Holding and one of the country's best-known corporate figures, has suffered a heart attack and is being treated in hospital, a hospital official told Reuters on Thursday.

Safety, savings fuel push for driverless trucks

SYDNEY/AMSTERDAM, Jan 21 (Reuters) - After decades checking their rearview mirrors for the threat from rail and air transport, truckers around the world are facing their latest rival head-on: driverless trucks.

The dying embers of Britain’s blast furnaces

Blast furnaces across the UK are under threat as the steel industry bounces from one crisis meeting to another.

Oman is the largest non-OPEC oil producer in the Middle East

(Thu, 21 Jan 2016) Oman is the largest producer of crude oil (including condensate) in the Middle East that is not a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Oman's oil production has increased each year since 2007 and ranked 7th among Middle East oil producers and 21st in the world, as of 2014. Production exceeded one million barrels per day in June 2015 for the first time since December 2000.

China to allocate $4.6 bln to shut 4,300 coal mines -Xinhua

BEIJING, Jan 21 (Reuters) - China will allocate 30 billion yuan ($4.56 billion) in funds over the next three years to support the closure of small and inefficient coal mines and redeploy around 1 million workers, state media reported on Thursday.

UPDATE 1-Regulators scrap plan to burn off leaking methane in California

LOS ANGELES, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Air quality regulators agreed on Wednesday to scrap a proposal to capture and burn off some of the methane spewing into the air from a subterranean pipeline rupture that has forced thousands of Los Angeles residents from their homes since October.

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