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From COMPANIES 4:55pm

Brent dips as North Sea pipeline reopens

Norway Oil Industry

Oil price at year-lows as supply concerns ease

From THE COMMODITIES NOTE 9:50am

OECD predicts Brent at $190 by 2020

Figure is far higher than other official forecasters’ figures

From COMPANIES 9:44pm

Rosneft seals $10bn deal with oil traders

Agreement with Glencore and Vitol to help fund TNK-BP purchase

From COMPANIES 9:26pm

BP warns of higher settlement costs

Administrator handing out ‘windfall’ damages, says group

From COMPANIES Mar 7, 2013

Ten executives leave Bumi Resources

Improved chances of Bakrie exit from London-listed parent

The Commodities Note - Javier Blas

Javier Blas

OECD predicts Brent price of $190 by 2020

Figure is far higher than other official forecasters’ figures
Playing politics with potash

PotashCorp and Israel Chemical deal faces long list of hurdles
IEA adjusts measure of China’s oil demand

Agency’s new methodology reflects product inventories

7:33pm

Baosteel chief reports subdued outlook

Chief forecasts demand growth of only 3% for steel

China Vanke dollar bond raises $800m
Zhang Weiying China must seize chance for reform

6:31pm

US gas futures rise on higher demand

Domestic US gas inventories down in week to March 1

Editorial Obama’s drones and laws of war
Trading Post Dollar looks most sensitive asset to NFP

Mar 6, 2013

Exchange traded funds dump gold

February sees largest monthly outflow on record

Mar 6, 2013

US ethanol credits surge 1,400% this year

Rally raises concerns about renewable mandate

Mar 6, 2013

Cocoa cools on speculative short selling

Improved crop outlook pushes prices down

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Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton's Mount Newman iron ore mine in Western Australia

©AFP BHP Billiton: new direction

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Andrew Mackenzie (R) speaks as it is announced he will be replacing Marius Kloppers (L) as BHP Billiton CEO while company chairman Jac Nasser (C) listens, in Sydney on February 20, 2013. The 56-year-old Mackenzie, currently chief executive non-ferrous, has over 30 years experience in oil and gas, petrochemicals and minerals and joined BHP Billiton in November 2008. South African Kloppers has been running the world's largest miner since October 2007, steering it through the global financial crisis.

©AFP Mackenzie, the investor-friendly scientist

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