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(Updates throughout) By Wilda Asmarini JAKARTA, June 11 (Reuters) - Global energy companies are expected to continue to reduce oil and gas production in Indonesia next year, the country's upstream energy regulator said on Thursday. Indonesia was once self-sufficient in oil and gas but has struggled for years to attract investment to halt declining output - difficulties that have been exacerbated by the current environment of weak oil prices.

BOGOTA, June 11 (Reuters) - Colombia's FARC rebels attacked an energy pylon in the southern province Caqueta, leaving 500,000 people without electricity, the military said on Thursday as the Marxist group steps up attacks on infrastructure amid stumbling peace talks.

BRUSSELS, June 11 (Reuters) - EU Climate Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete on Thursday launched a plan to turn the Mediterranean region into "a major gas marketplace" as part of European Union efforts to reduce dependency on dominant oil and gas supplier Russia.

LONDON, June 11 (Reuters) - Britain's budget watchdog has slashed its forecast for how much tax will be paid by the oil and gas industry over the next 25 years, a move that highlights the fiscal challenge that would be faced by an independent Scotland.

NEW YORK, June 11 (Reuters) - A U.S. government weather forecaster on Thursday pegged the chance of El Nino conditions lasting into the Northern Hemisphere winter 2015-16 at 85 percent, extending its outlook for how long the conditions will last.

June 11 (Reuters) - A 1940 clip of the Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge in the United States stretching like chewing gum in a gale captured the imagination of a Spanish engineering student who became obsessed with how he could turn that chaos into power.<

DUBAI, June 11 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia-based Arab Petroleum Investments Corp.

June 11 (Reuters) - Oil and natural gas producer Hess Corp said it will sell half of its Bakken midstream assets to Global Infrastructure Partners for $2.68 billion.

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