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Barclays is selling its Spanish banking operations to CaixaBank as part of plans to shrink its European divisions. CaixaBank, Spain's third-largest lender, will pay €800m (£632m) in cash for Barclays' retail banking, wealth management and corporate banking businesses. - The Telegraph Alexander Teme

Statoil says normal operations at In Amenas gas plant resuming

OSLO, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Normal operations are resuming at the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria 18 months after a raid by Islamist militants killed forty employees, one of the plant's operators, Statoil, said on Monday. "The corporate executive committee has decided that ordinary rotation is

BP's 413,500 bpd Whiting refinery running 30 pct below capacity -IIR

HOUSTON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - BP Plc's 413,500 barrel per day refinery in Whiting, Indiana is running about 30 percent below capacity on all units following a fire on a compressor for a hydrotreater, intelligence firm IIR Energy said on Friday. Both fluidic catalytic cracking units and three

UPDATE 5-Chicago wholesale gasoline prices rise on BP Whiting refinery fire

* BP says expects minimal impact from late Wednesday blaze * One worker taken to area hospital, but later released (Adds Genscape information, paragraphs 8-10) By Michael Hirtzer WHITING, Ind., Aug 28 (Reuters) - Wholesale gasoline prices surged in Chicago on Thursday after a

Cameron warns of economic threat from Scottish breakaway

* Scots to vote on independence from UK on Sept. 18 * Cameron says 'yes' vote would threaten trade, jobs * Unpopular in Scotland, PM has so far kept low profile By Alistair Smout GLASGOW, Scotland, Aug 28 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron told Scots on Thurs

BP Whiting fire confined to gasoline unit hydrotreater - sources

HOUSTON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - A Wednesday night fire at BP Plc's Whiting, Indiana refinery, the company's largest U.S. plant, was confined to a hydrotreating unit for a gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit, trade and industry sources said on Thursday. BP early on Thursday said

UK MIDDAY BRIEFING: CSR Leaps On Approach, Xaar Plummets

UPDATE 1-UK North Sea Hound Point VLCC jetty shut until Sept. 15

(Adds comment from operator BP) By David Sheppard LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The supertanker jetty at the North Sea's Hound Point crude oil terminal is shut for maintenance and will not reopen until Sept. 15, operator BP Plc said on Thursday, making sending excess cargoes to Asia mor

London midday: Profit-taking, Ukraine tensions hit UK stocks

- Ukraine accuses Russia of invasion - Sentiment dampened by ECB uncertainty - CSR jumps on takeover hopes - Xaar plummets on weak guidance techMARK 2,838.91 -0.22% FTSE 100 6,799.21 -0.46% FTSE 250 15,898.75 -0.79% UK stocks retreated from an eight-week high on Thursday as renewed geopolitical te

BP Says Whiting Refinery Blaze "Minimally" Effects Production

BP battles blaze at largest US refinery

A fire broke out at BP's largest US refinery on Wednesday night, but the company said the heavy crude facility was still in production. A compressor in one of the refinery's units exploded, according to local reports, shaking local homes and knocking pictures off walls. The FTSE 100 oil major said

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PRESS: BP's Largest US Refinery Still Operating After Blaze - Reuters

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