MOSCOW/JOHANNESBURG, April 7 (Reuters) - Russia is persuing costly state oil and platinum projects in Africa despite an economic crisis at home, hoping they will bolster sales, including of arms, for businesses hit by Western sanctions over the conflict in Ukraine.
* Goldman sees little upside for $40 a barrel U.S.
(Tue, 07 Apr 2015) The United States remained the world's top producer of petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbons in 2014, according to EIA estimates. U.S. hydrocarbon production continues to exceed that of both Russia and Saudi Arabia, the second- and third-largest producers, respectively. For the United States and Russia, total petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbon production, in energy content terms, is almost evenly split between petroleum and natural gas.
April 6 (Reuters) - The only resident group of whales in the Gulf of Mexico, a population numbering fewer than 50 animals off the Florida panhandle, has moved one step closer to possible federal protection under the U.S.
Baoli Bitumina Singapore, a joint enterprise of Baoli Asphalt and Bitumina companies, is planning to acquire small oil refineries in Russia's Far East, aimed to create a refinery grid.
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