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Oil whipsaws as production seen rising, more OPEC cuts discussed

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Oil prices whipsawed Monday, turning negative after the International Energy Agency forecast potential shale oil growth and waning European refined product demand, which bodes poorly for global efforts to remove a glut.

US energy stocks, darlings last year, stumble in 2017

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The energy sector is the stock market's dud so far in 2017 after a banner performance in 2016, and the rest of the year may also be rocky for investors due to the unclear path for crude oil prices.

Asia fuel oil: Buyers re-emerge to narrow cash discounts, spreads sag

DUBAI (Reuters) -- Buyers of physical cargoes re-emerged in the Platts window on Monday helping narrow cash discounts of Asia's 380-cst fuel oil, but a prevalence of bearish sentiment in the paper markets weighed on near-dated time spreads of the fuel.

PetroChina Dalian refinery exports first Australian-spec diesel cargo

BEIJING (Reuters) -- PetroChina's Dalian oil refinery exported on Feb. 27 a 40,000 t cargo of diesel fuel with that met Australian fuel quality specifications, the first shipment of its kind from China, according to a statement posted on the website of the state assets regulator on Monday.

Guyana says future oil output could be refined in Trinidad, Suriname

GEORGETOWN (Reuters) -- The South American nation of Guyana could send future oil production to Trinidad and Tobago or Suriname for refining, a government official said on Thursday.

China's largest 'teapot' refiner, CEFC team up in Shandong oil terminal venture

BEIJING (Reuters) -- Dongming Petrochemical, China's largest independent or 'teapot' refiner, has signed a deal with privately run CEFC China Energy and a local port authority to build a crude oil terminal in Shandong province, seeking to ease a logistics bottleneck gripping the country's teapot oil sector.

Oil down on record US crude stocks, flat Russian output

LONDON (Reuters) -- Oil prices fell on Thursday after US crude stocks hit an all-time high and official data showed Russian oil production unchanged in February, with no further cuts to tighten the market and drain global oversupply.

Saudi Arabia may raise light crude price to Asia for third straight month in April

(Reuters) -- Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia could raise the price of Arab Light crude it sells to Asia in April for a third straight month after Middle East benchmark Dubai crude strengthened on OPEC cuts, four of seven respondents said in a Reuters survey of refiners and traders on Wednesday.

Nigerian lawmakers to investigate $17-B subsidies received by state oil firm

ABUJA (Reuters) -- Nigeria's upper house of parliament will investigate allegations the state oil company illegally inflated funds it collected from an official subsidy scheme to $17 billion between 2006 and 2015, lawmakers said on Wednesday.

Sinopec to start operating Zhanjiang commercial oil tanks; SPR site delayed

BEIJING (Reuters) -- Sinopec Corp is expected to start operating by June a new commercial crude oil tank farm in the southern Chinese city of Zhanjiang, where a large strategic reserve site is also under construction, three industry sources said this week.