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WASHINGTON, Dec 31 (Reuters) - The White House has delayed imposing new financial sanctions on Iran over its ballistic-missile program, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

WASHINGTON, Dec 31 (Reuters) - The White House has delayed imposing new financial sanctions on Iran over its ballistic-missile program, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

WASHINGTON, Dec 31 (Reuters) - The White House has delayed imposing new financial sanctions on Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Gamesa Corp. Tecnologica SA, Spain’s biggest wind turbine maker, and Iberdrola SA, its biggest wind farm developer, won a contract to build and commission four projects in Costa Rica totaling 80 MW.

(Adds details, context and crude oil prices) By Barani Krishnan Dec 31 (Reuters) - U.S. energy firms cut oil rigs for a sixth week in the last seven, data showed on Thursday, a sign drillers were still waiting for higher prices before returning to the well pad. Drillers removed 2 oil rigs in the week ended Dec. 31, bringing the total rig count down to 536, oil services company Baker Hughes Inc said in its closely followed report.

SOFIA, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Bulgaria's state-run gas supplier, Bulgargaz, has agreed to provide private firm Overgas with natural gas to meet the needs of its clients from Jan. 1 after reports Russia's Gazprom will halt supplies to it, officials said on Thursday.

In November, Renovate America, the San Diego-based Property-Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program administrator, passed a major milestone – funding over $1 billion in residential installations.

(Adds dropped numbers in second paragraph, corrects total number of rigs cut since summer to 136 from 134) Dec 31 (Reuters) - U.S. energy firms cut oil rigs for a sixth week in the last seven, data showed on Thursday, a sign drillers were still waiting for higher prices before returning to the well pad. Drillers removed 2 oil rigs in the week ended Dec. 31, bringing the total rig count down to 536, oil services company Baker Hughes Inc said in its closely followed report.

KIEV, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Ukraine will investigate a suspected cyber attack on its power grid, the energy ministry said on Thursday, an incident the country's secret service has blamed on Russia.

By Stephen Eisenhammer RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Within hours of a deadly mining spill in November that would become Brazil's worst environmental disaster, BHP Chief Executive Andrew Mackenzie was in front of a camera offering his sympathies to those affected.

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