LONDON, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Heating oil prices in the United States are trading as if it was mid-summer rather than winter, as warm weather and sluggish demand from freight companies combine to make heating oil cheaper than gasoline.
JAKARTA, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Indonesia has postponed a new levy on fossil fuels intended to support development of renewable energy resources and improve energy security, its energy minister said on Monday, a day before it had been due to come into effect.
HOUSTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) - U.S. "stripper well" operators, the nation's smallest oil producers seen as most likely to succumb to the crude price slump, are hanging in tough, reducing the chances of near-term production cuts needed to rebalance the domestic oil market.
Jan 4 (Reuters) - Oil explorer Cairn Energy Plc said on Monday it carried out its first successful production test at its oilfields in Senegal, sending its shares up as much as 9 percent.
LAGOS, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, elected on a pledge to tackle corruption, holds talks with the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday as the country seeks to spend its way out of an economic crisis fuelled by plunging oil prices.
WARSAW, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Factory output in central and eastern Europe grew steadily in December despite worries over China's slowing growth, data showed on Monday, with the region benefiting from lower oil prices and rising demand from the euro zone, its main trade partner.
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