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LONDON/ABUJA, Aug 5 (Reuters) - The Nigerian president's sudden, unexpected and seemingly unilateral decision to ban nearly 100 oil tankers from the country's waters has sown confusion in the operations of Africa's largest crude exporter.

* Unions reject wage offer from gold producers (Recasts with talks being held, adds mining minister comment, detail and background; also changes dateline from Johannesburg)

DUBAI, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has accepted an invitation to visit Rome, Italy's foreign ministry said on Wednesday, in what would be his first trip to an EU capital as he tries to mend diplomatic and economic ties with the West.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 5 (Reuters) - China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed on Wednesday to speed up consultations on a Code of Conduct for the disputed South China Sea, the foreign ministers of China and ASEAN member Thailand said on Wednesday.

In a new pilot program, a California utility is paying drivers of BMW electric cars to delay charging their vehicles when the power grid is under pressure.
One hundred owners of BMW AG’s i3 hatchback receive $1,000 upfront to participate in Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s 18-month trial, which starts this week and is confined to the San Francisco Bay Area. Peter Berman, a 70-year-old, semi-retired Los Altos psychologist, was selected from about 400 applicants.

OSLO, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Swedish oil and gas firm Lundin Petroleum missed second-quarter core earnings forecasts, hit by lower than expected production, and cut its average daily output estimate for this year.

TOKYO, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked U.S.

There is little doubt that additional crude supplies from Iran will intensify competition among Middle Eastern producers.

(Wed, 05 Aug 2015) The electric power sector emitted 128 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (MMmt CO2) in April 2015, the lowest for any month since April 1988, according to the most recent estimates in EIA's <em>Monthly Energy Review</em>.

NEW YORK, Aug 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday rejected Ecuador's challenge to a $96 million international arbitration award in favor of energy giant Chevron Corp, marking the latest twist in a decades-long dispute over the development of oil fields in the South American country.

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