Oil & gas
India looks to swap Russian gas for Myanmar's with China
08 Dec 2016
The cost of transporting gas over the proposed Russia-India pipeline would be around $4 per mmBtu, against $2 on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline and $1 on the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline
Oil surges as Opec, non-Opec producers agree on output cuts
01 Dec 2016
In the first joint output cut with Russia since 2001, and the first Opec cutback after 2008, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, UAE, and Kuwait have agreed to take the largest production cuts
CIA chief warns Trump against tearing up Iran deal
01 Dec 2016
Trump’s threat to tear up the nuclear deal with Iran would be ‘the height of folly’, outgoing CIA chief John Brennan has said, and also warned the president-elect against cosying up to Vladimir Putin or authorising torture
