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Green activists in fresh protest at Russian Arctic oil platform

* Coastguard fires shots over Greenpeace vessel-group * Similar protest action last year delayed operations * Greenpeace says Russia cannot guarantee safety of rig MOSCOW, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Greenpeace said on Wednesday two of its activists scaled the Prirazlomnaya oil platform

US Cash Products-Chicago gasoline, ULSD rise on refinery issues

* Gulf gasoline slips on weak demand * NY Harbor RBOB slightly weaker, thin trading seen HOUSTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Chicago gasoline and ultra-low sulfur diesel differentials rose on Tuesday after Marathon Petroleum Corp said it would shut five units at a Kentucky plant for maintenance

EU softens new rules on benchmark rigging

* EU Commission to outline rules following Libor rigging * New law will also apply to commodity benchmarks * Earlier plan for central EU supervision pared back By Barbara Lewis and John O'Donnell BRUSSELS, Sept 17 (Reuters) - EU regulators will abandon earlier plans to pla

UPDATE 2-Angola rivals Nigeria for top spot in African oil exports

* Angola to export 1.74 mln bpd in November * Export gap narrows between two producers * Two key Nigerian oil grades have been disrupted By Emma Farge and Simon Falush GENEVA/LONDON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Angola's oil exports will rise to around 1.74 million barrels per day (bpd)

Germany's RMR oil product pipeline resumes flows -company

LONDON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Flows at the southern section of the 250,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) RMR oil product pipeline in Germany have resumed after a blockage was repaired, a company official said on Tuesday. The section between Cologne and the Main river in western Germany was shut 11 day

COLUMN-Australia, not China, the next great shale gas hope: Clyde Russell

--Clyde Russell is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own.-- By Clyde Russell LAUNCESTON, Australia, Sept 17 (Reuters) - China may boast the world's largest potential reserves of shale gas but is likely to lose to Australia in the race to be second behind the United

BP reports planned work on equipment at Cherry Point, WA, refinery

Sept 16 (Reuters) - BP Plc reported scheduled maintenance on equipment at its 225,000 barrel-per-day Cherry Point refinery in Blaine, Washington, according to a filing with the Northwest Clean Air Agency on Sept. 11, made public on Monday. The company did not specify the unit in the report.

BP Whiting refinery FCCU back in production -sources

HOUSTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - A gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit was back in normal production on Monday at BP Plc's 400,000 barrel per day (bpd) Whiting, Indiana, refinery, according to sources familiar with operations at the refinery. The FCCU, an alkylation unit and a re

Norway's oil firms lobby for Arctic area and tax repeal

By Balazs Koranyi OSLO, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Oil firms in Norway, western Europe's biggest oil and gas producer, asked the incoming ruling parties on Monday to repeal a recent tax hike and open the sensitive Arctic Lofoten archipelago to exploration. Drilling around the Lofoten islands

Corac Group Pretax Loss Narrows On Strong Order-Book Growth

RPT-COLUMN-US gas exports to Asia will narrow, not shut price gap: Kemp

By John Kemp LONDON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Large-scale gas exports from the United States will narrow the gap between U.S. domestic prices and those in Asia, but the boost to U.S. domestic gas prices is likely to be smaller than U.S. gas producers hope and consumers fear. In October, ga

British blue chips' cash holdings up by a third since 2008 -Capita

LONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Britain's top companies have boosted cash holdings by more than a third in the past five years, opening the door to future acquisitions or bumper shareholder returns, research showed on Monday. Gross cash holdings of FTSE 100 companies have risen by 42.2 billion

Egypt hopes to tie oil payments to production increases - minister

* Payment to oil companies could come within weeks - minister * Will also repay up to $580 mln owed to contractors * Conversion of $2 bln in Qatari bonds still not resolved By Patrick Werr CAIRO, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Egypt wants to encourage foreign oil companies in the cou

BP's Indiana refinery restarts FCC unit-sources

HOUSTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - BP Plc has restarted a gasoline-making fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCC) at its 405,000 barrels-per-day refinery at Whiting, Indiana, sources familiar with refinery operations told Reuters on Friday. The FCC was shut earlier this week because of an operational

COLUMN-US gas exports to Asia will narrow, not shut price gap: Kemp

By John Kemp LONDON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Large-scale gas exports from the United States will narrow the gap between U.S. domestic prices and those in Asia, but the boost to U.S. domestic gas prices is likely to be smaller than U.S. gas producers hope and consumers fear. In October, ga