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LONDON, July 24 (Reuters) - British temporary power firm Aggreko said on Friday that its pretax profit for this year would be between 8 and 15 percent lower than market forecasts, due to a slowdown in oil and gas and less favourable contract terms.

MOSCOW, July 24 (Reuters) - Russian gas company Gazprom said on Friday it had lodged a case against Turkmenistan's Turkmengaz at the international arbitration court in Stockholm over the price in a supply contract.

* Graphic on Anglo vs peers: http://link.reuters.com/cyx94w (Adds CEO comments, details of job cuts)

LONDON, July 24 (Reuters) - British temporary power firm Aggreko warned that its annual profit would come in at least 8 percent lower than currently expected due to less favourable contract terms and a further slowdown in its oil and gas business in North America.

About 700 million barrels of crude oil stored in four sites along the US Gulf coast seems to have recently inspired the imagination of a cash-strapped Congress.

(Fri, 24 Jul 2015) Large-scale electricity storage technologies are currently limited in use, with pumped hydroelectric storage accounting for more than 98% of total storage capacity. However, nonhydro storage is increasing, and there is considerable interest in developing new storage technologies with attractive costs and operating characteristics. Power-to-gas conversion is a potential storage solution that is undergoing advanced study and approaching commercial application.

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 24 (Reuters) - Brazilian oil workers began a 24-hour strike on Friday in an effort to stop moves to shrink state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras, according to the main union representing the workers.

BEIJING, July 24 (Reuters) - The vast majority of firms covered by China's pilot carbon emission exchanges met their targets this year, but success was achieved largely by flexible regulations and a supply glut that kept permits cheap, participants said.<

July 23 (Reuters) - Phillips 66 said power had been restored following a brief, unscheduled outage that shut parts of its 247,000-barrel-per-day Alliance refinery in Belle Chase, Louisiana, on Thursday.

July 23 (Reuters) - The Phillips 66 Alliance refinery in Belle Chase, Louisiana, was hit by a power outage on Thursday, according to the power provider Entergy Corp's website.

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