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PRESS: BP Braced For Billions Of Dollars More In Deepwater Payments - FT

Rosneft aims for 20 pct production increase by 2020

MOSCOW, July 11 (Reuters) - Russia's biggest oil producer Rosneft plans to boost hydrocarbon production by almost a fifth to 300 million tonnes of oil equivalent by 2020 by speeding up the development of upstream projects and improving the quality of drilling, it said late on Friday. This r

Oil refiners' "mini golden era" will end soon - IEA

By Libby George LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - A brief period of high profitability for the world's oil refineries is likely to come to an end as quickly as it began, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday. Weak crude oil and relatively high prices for gasoline, diesel and

Russia's Rosneft strengthens Asian foothold to counter sanctions

* Rosneft to buy stake in Indian refiner, supply oil * Saudi Arabia falls behind Russia as top supplier to China By Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW, July 9 (Reuters) - Top Russian oil producer Rosneft has raised the stakes in its battle with Saudi Arabia for market share by securing

RPT-INSIGHT-With options dwindling, BP seized a chance to settle oil spill case

(Repeats with no changes to text) By Jessica Resnick-Ault, Dmitry Zhdannikov and Terry Wade NEW YORK/LONDON/HOUSTON, July 9 (Reuters) - In early May, with its legal options dwindling and investors impatient, BP Plc saw a chance to negotiate what became a $18.7 billion settlement that

UPDATE 2-Russia's Rosneft signs deal to buy into India's Essar Oil

* Rosneft to supply 200,000 bpd of oil to Essar * Stake acquisition deal is subject to corporate approval (Recasts to say Rosneft buying stake in Essar, comments from Essar and Rosneft, background) By Denis Pinchuk and Katya Golubkova UFA, Russia, July 9 (Reuters) - Russia's t

UPDATE: Euro Drags On AB Foods But Primark Robust Ahead Of US Launch

Azerbaijan president open to Snam taking stake in TAP project

MILAN, July 9 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan is open to Italian gas infrastructure group Snam taking a stake in the project to build the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) that will carry gas from Azerbaijan to Europe, President Ilham Aliyev said on Thursday. "Why not? If someone would allocate its shar

BROKER RATINGS SUMMARY: Goldman Raises Prudential To Conviction Buy

INSIGHT-With options dwindling, BP seized a chance to settle oil spill case

By Jessica Resnick-Ault, Dmitry Zhdannikov and Terry Wade NEW YORK/LONDON/HOUSTON, July 9 (Reuters) - In early May, with its legal options dwindling and investors impatient, BP Plc saw a chance to negotiate what became a $18.7 billion settlement that ended five years of litigation over the

LONDON MARKET CLOSE: UK Budget Sends Some Stocks Higher, Others Lower

UPDATE: UK Scraps Climate Change Levy, Confirms North Sea Support

BROKER RATINGS SUMMARY: Berenberg Downgrades Pearson To Sell

U.S. Cash Products-Gulf gasoline stronger on demand, talk of exports

* Gulf gasoline stronger on demand expectations, talk of exports * NY Harbor mostly steady, RBOB strengthens slightly * Midwest ULSD strengthens, gasoline little changed NEW YORK, July 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Gulf Coast gasoline differentials against futures benchmarks strengthened on Tue

London close: Stocks drop on lack of fresh Greek proposals

Failure by Greece to present a new cash-for-reforms package to Eurozone finance ministers sent UK stocks firmly lower on Tuesday, with heavyweight mining shares bearing the brunt of an aversion to risk and sell-off in metal prices. Despite hopes that Athens would table a new plan an at emergency sum