Jan 31 (Reuters) - Oil and gas producer Anadarko Petroleum
Corp reported a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss on
Tuesday as cost cuts failed to offset the impact of weak oil
prices.
KIBERA, Kenya, Jan 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -
Abdullahi Ibrahim's dream to set up a fruit-juice business has
so far been thwarted by water scarcity in Kenya's biggest slum,
Kibera.
Jan 31 (Reuters) - Oil and gas producer Anadarko Petroleum
Corp reported a smaller fourth-quarter loss than a year
ago, when it recorded one-time charges totaling $954 million.
SAO PAULO, Jan 31 (Reuters) - A Brazilian federal court
rejected an appeal by state-run oil firm Petrobras and upheld a
decision blocking the company's plan to sell a stake in fuel
distribution unit BR Distribuidora, according to a court
document seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
HOUSTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Security in Houston, America's fourth-largest city, is tight ahead of Sunday's Super Bowl 51, though officials have vowed to support peaceful demonstrations against President Donald Trump's executive order restricting entry to the United States for travelers from some Muslim-majority nations.
NEW YORK/HOUSTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - U.S. East Coast
refiners are on a Brazilian crude buying spree, market sources
say, displacing West African cargoes as producers such as Royal
Dutch Shell and Norway's Statoil sell rising
output from fields off Brazil's coast.
SAO PAULO, Jan 31 (Reuters) - A government plan to spur the
construction of solar energy farms in Brazil is faltering
because of high costs, strict rules requiring local components
and low-priced competition from Chinese suppliers, say
regulators and power sector executives.
SAO PAULO, Jan 31 (Reuters) - A Brazilian federal court
rejected an appeal by state-controlled oil firm Petrobras and
upheld a decision blocking the company's plan to sell a stake in
fuels distribution unit BR Distribuidora, according to a court
document seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
European Marine Energy Centre announced it won the Marine and Hydro Energy award presented at the Rushlight Awards 2016-17, according to an EMEC press release.
NEW YORK, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Valero Energy Corp on
Tuesday signaled that record high costs to comply with the U.S.
renewable fuels program will continue this year, after the oil
refiner was hit with a ballooning tab for the program in 2016.
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