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A second justice on Brazil's Supreme Court has voted against allowing state-owned oil company Petrobras to go ahead with the planned sale of eight refineries, according to a court document reviewed by Reuters.

Texas Gulf Coast refineries, including the nation's largest, plan to continue normal operations through the passage of weakened Tropical Storm Beta, which is forecast to continue losing strength after coming ashore sometime on Tuesday, said sources and companies on Monday.

Royal Dutch Shell is looking to slash up to 40% off the cost of producing oil and gas in a major drive to save cash so it can overhaul its business and focus more on renewable energy and power markets, sources told Reuters.

Norway will finance two-thirds of a large-scale project to capture and store carbon dioxide - its second attempt to cut greenhouse gas emissions in a plan that was previously touted as the oil-producing country's moon landing.

The Dutch government said on Monday it would further cut production at the Groningen gas field, once Europe's largest, for the coming year ending October 2021, to a maximum of 8.1 billion cubic metres.

Dominion Energy Inc <D.N> shut its Cove Point liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Maryland on Monday for annual maintenance expected to last about three weeks, according to energy traders and company notices to customers.

Gas contributes only a fraction of Germany's energy consumption, and Russian gas only a fraction of that, so it is wrong to say that the Nord Stream 2 pipeline will make Germany dependent on Russian energy, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said.

Oil prices fell on Monday on the potential return of oil output from Libya even as rising coronavirus cases add to worries about global demand, although losses were limited as a new tropical storm heads for the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc <RDSa.L> halted some oil production and began evacuating workers from a U.S. Gulf of Mexico platform, the company said on Saturday, as a new tropical storm flared.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc halted some oil production and began evacuating workers from a U.S. Gulf of Mexico platform, the company said on Friday, as a new tropical storm flared.

The premiers of Germany's eastern states have passed a resolution in support of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany, daily Bild reported on Friday.

Storm-tossed U.S. offshore energy producers and exporters began clearing debris on Thursday from Hurricane Sally and booting up idle Gulf of Mexico operations after hunkering down for five days.

Shell has started ramping up production at Appomattox, its largest floating platform in the Gulf of Mexico, after it was shut due to Hurricane Sally, the company said on Thursday.

Royal Dutch Shell <RDSa.L> on Thursday said its Mobile, Alabama, chemical plant and oil refinery had minimal operational impact from Hurricane Sally and is running normally.

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Storm-tossed U.S. offshore energy producers and exporters began clearing debris on Thursday from Hurricane Sally and booting up idle Gulf of Mexico operations after hunkering down for five days.

If 2020 had been anything close to a normal year, the oil and gas industry would have just wrapped up its annual gathering in Singapore, most likely reassured of its ongoing essential role in humanity's future.

More than a quarter of U.S. Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and gas production remained shut by Hurricane Sally, which was moving inland on Wednesday and dumping heavy rains and cutting fuel demand in the U.S. Southeast.

Plans by European oil companies to increase their renewable power capacity are driving up the price tags on renewable businesses and projects, the CEO of British renewables and network company SSE, told Reuters.