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OPEC signals oil supply from rivals proving resilient to low prices

LONDON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - OPEC on Tuesday raised its forecast of oil supplies from non-member countries in 2015, a sign that oil's price collapse is taking longer to impact on shale and other competing sources than previously thought.

Even as banks walk away, coal on the rise in Australia

* Environmentalists see victory as banks exit Adani coal mine

Japan skips monthly spot LNG arrival price as cargoes dry up

TOKYO, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Japan on Tuesday skipped publishing a monthly average import price for liquefied natural gas (LNG) for July, due to a lack of import cargoes arriving in the country, another sign that global demand for the fuel is faltering. It was only the second time that Japan's trade ministry has failed to announce a level since it started publishing the spot arrival prices in April last year.

After nuclear deal, Pakistan and Iran seek to increase trade

ISLAMABAD, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Pakistan is in the final stages of negotiating a deal to increase its electricity imports from Iran tenfold, a Pakistani government spokesman said Tuesday, part of a push to boost trade if sanctions relating to Iran's nuclear programme are phased out.

Seaborne nickel ore trade still a deadly 'game of Russian roulette'

According to marine insurers and shipping sources, nickel ore is now the biggest source of liquefaction incidents in the international dry bulk trades.

Fiscal probe for Brazil's Rousseff poses impeachment threat

BRASILIA, Aug 11 (Reuters) - The biggest threat to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's hold on office may come not from a corruption scandal that has ensnared the country's business and political elite but from a less-heralded probe into accounting practices led by a computer science graduate turned lawyer.

2014 Annual EIA-860 data

(Tue, 11 Aug 2015) Early release of the 2014 annual EIA-860 data is now available. The final EIA-860 data for 2014 will be published in October 2015.

West Coast wind patterns lead to below-normal wind generation capacity factors

(Tue, 11 Aug 2015) A drop in average wind speeds in the western United States during early 2015 led to reduced generation from wind plants in California, Oregon, and Washington. As a result, wind plant utilization rates, also known as plant capacity factors, were consistently below the previous five-year average during the first five months of 2015, according to the latest data available.

Yuan depreciation hits China airline, oil shares, HK stocks up

* Chinese carriers slump on yuan devaluation, but exporters jump

UPDATE 1-Oil prices fall after China devalues yuan

* Move follows over 8 pct fall in Chinese exports in July (Adds China's yuan devaluation, comment, updates prices)

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