** Oil stocks among top gainers in Europe as Brent prices edge away from multi-year lows on Tuesday on winter demand hopes ** Brent futures up 0.9 pct at $36.68 per barrel at 0824 GMT, off an 11-year low of $36.04 hit on Monday ** Tullow Oil and BG up 2 pct each, Shell gains 1 pct an
Read moreHOUSTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - BP Plc on Friday said its U.S. onshore unit has acquired all of Devon Energy Corp's oil and gas properties in the San Juan Basin in New Mexico for an undisclosed price. BP expects to take over operation of the 480 wells spread across 33,000 acres in the first qu
Read more(ShareCast News) - The possibility of cash being returned to shareholders prompted The Times' Tempus to rate London Stock Exchange Group at 'buy long term' on Friday. In a trading statement on Thursday, the FTSE 100 group said equity capital raisings were down 2% to £40bn in "more challenging market
Read more(Corrects reference to Sarasin in paragraph 8) LONDON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - An alliance of around 100 investors is calling on mining companies Anglo American Glencore and Rio Tinto to show that they are working to lessen the impact of climate change on their businesses. The group of Eu
Read moreLONDON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The flow of North Sea crude oil through the Forties Pipeline System is still running at restricted rates, after a power outage at the Kinneil terminal on Dec. 1, a spokeswoman for pipeline operator BP said on Tuesday. Industry monitor Genscape on Dec. 1 reported t
Read more(Adds details, background) BAKU, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's crude oil and condensate production for the first 11 months of 2015 fell by 0.5 percent year on year to 38.3 million tonnes, a source at the State Statistics Committee said on Tuesday. Azerbaijan's natural gas production
Read moreOSLO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Norwegian gas flows to Europe fell on Tuesday on lower deliveries to Britain, data from gas system operator Gassco showed. Gas flows to Europe were running at 341 million cubic metres (mcm) per day by around 1300 GMT, down 10 mcm from volumes delivered on Monday.
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