LONDON, July 23 (Reuters) - An unplanned outage at Britain's St Fergus gas processing terminal, which started last week, has ended, operator Royal Dutch Shell said. The outage, which started on July 17, ended on Thursday morning. (Reporting by Nina Chestney; Editing by Pravin Char)
Read moreBy Jarrett Renshaw NEW YORK, July 23 (Reuters) - U.S. motorists' habit of filling up with costlier "premium" gasoline when pump prices drop is delivering extra profits to refiners, such as Royal Dutch Shell and traders like Noble Group. For the second time in the past decade, a sharp
Read more(ShareCast News) - Optimism for a breakthrough against Alzheimer's disease has been boosted by encouraging clinical trial data from Eli Lilly, adding to perceptions of a broader renaissance in the pharmaceuticals industry. Positive signs yesterday from a trial of the US company's solanezumab drug ap
Read moreMOSCOW, July 23 (Reuters) - Russia's Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant, controlled by Gazprom, has completed one month of maintenance, a spokeswoman for its operator, Sakhalin Energy, said on Thursday. She said production fell at the 10-million-tonnes-per-annum project dur
Read more(Adds quotes from Interior Department, details) WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday granted Royal Dutch Shell its final two permits to explore for oil in the Arctic this summer, but said the company cannot drill into the oil zone until the required emer
Read moreWASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday granted Royal Dutch Shell its final two permits to drill in the Arctic this summer, but said the company cannot drill into the oil zone yet. Shell must have emergency equipment called a capping stack deployable before
Read more(Updates with comments on demand for 2nd generation ethanol) By Marcelo Teixeira PIRACICABA, Brazil, July 22 (Reuters) - Brazilian sugar and ethanol producer Raizen secured deals to export cellulosic ethanol to Europe at a 26 percent premium over conventional ethanol prices, the compa
Read moreBy Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN, July 22 (Reuters) - South Africa's four crude oil refineries are holding off any resumption of imports from Iran, where sanctions are yet to unravel fully following a nuclear deal between Tehran and the West, operators said on Wednesday. Before the sanction
Read moreBy Marcelo Teixeira PIRACICABA, Brazil, July 22 (Reuters) - Brazil's Raizen said it plans to start building additional cellulose ethanol plants after production costs for the second generation biofuel become competitive with conventional ethanol costs, Chief Executive Vasco Dias said on We
Read moreJuly 21 (Reuters) - Standard & Poors cut its rating on Royal Dutch Shell Plc by one notch to 'AA minus' from 'AA', citing a weaker financial risk profile, mainly due to soft oil prices, and continuing substantial capital expenditures. The rating agency said the outlook on the company is neg
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