ABUJA, April 15 (Reuters) - Oil firms keen to know how Nigeria's president elect Muhammadu Buhari plans to tax them could be waiting a long time as he makes ending corruption and reforming the opaque national oil company his most urgent sector priorities.
BAKU, April 15 (Reuters) - Azeri state energy company SOCAR has used proceeds of a recent $750 million Eurobond to invest in the construction of a refinery on Turkey's Aegean coast and plans to use the rest to buy back part of an older issue, SOCAR's vice president said on Wednesday.
MOSCOW, April 15 (Reuters) - Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Wednesday Russia was not discussing with Iran the possibility of supplying Iranian oil to global markets.
MANILA, April 15 (Reuters) - The Philippines is seeking more "substantive" support from its long-time security ally United States on how to counter China's rapid expansion in the South China Sea, the foreign secretary said on Wednesday.
Professor Donald Sadoway remembers chuckling at an e-mail in August 2009 from a woman claiming to represent Bill Gates. The world’s richest man had taken Sadoway’s Introduction to Solid State Chemistry online, the message explained. Gates wondered if he could meet the guy teaching the popular MIT course the next time the billionaire was in the Boston area, Bloomberg Markets magazine will report in its May issue.
MOSCOW, April 15 (Reuters) - Russia's third-largest oil producer, Surgutneftegaz, will deliver 8.4 million tonnes of oil via the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline in 2015, Vladimir Bogdanov, the company's head, said on Wednesday.
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