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Read moreJune 29 (Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court has reinstated a criminal charge of obstruction of Congress against a former BP Plc executive accused of downplaying the severity of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on Friday said a lowe
Read moreTEL AVIV, June 29 (Reuters) - Israeli conglomerate Delek Group said on Sunday its subsidiary Delek Europe Holdings signed an agreement to sell Delek Europe BV to a foreign fund for 355 million euros ($484 million). Delek said 180 million euros would be paid in cash in two equal instalments
Read more(Adds more background, production data) ALGIERS, June 28 (Reuters) - Foreign oil workers are returning to work at Algeria's In Amenas gas plant nearly a year and a half after the Islamist militant attack there that killed 40 people, a source at Algerian state energy company Sonatrach said o
Read moreALGIERS, June 28 (Reuters) - Foreign oil workers are returning to work at Algeria's In Amenas gas plant nearly a year and a half after the Islamist militant attack there that killed 40 people, a source at Algerian state energy company Sonatrach said on Saturday. "Twelve expatriate workers a
Read moreBy Jonathan Stempel June 27 (Reuters) - BP Plc has asked a U.S. judge to direct what it called a "vast number" of businesses to repay hundreds of millions of dollars it says were wrongly awarded as compensation on claims stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. In a Friday cou
Read moreKHABAROVSK, Russia, June 26 (Reuters) - Russia's Rosneft , the world's top listed oil producer by output, sees 2014 net profit at 380 billion roubles ($11.3 billion), CEO Igor Sechin told annual general meeting on Friday. Last year Rosneft saw 551 billion roubles in net profit, boosted by a
Read moreAMSTERDAM, June 27 (Reuters) - A section of a petroleum pipeline between Germany and the Netherlands has been closed during an investigation of suspected theft, German police and company officials said on Friday. The 583-km Rhein-Main-Rohrleitungstransportgesellschaft (RMR) pipeline transpo
Read moreOil majors BP and Rosneft have signed a long-term contract which will see the British group pay at least $1.5bn upfront for the supply of oil from the Russian company. The five-year agreement, which is on a pre-paid basis, covers export deliveries of up to 12m tonnes of oil products which can be re
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