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BP has been making some interesting points about the outlook for the natural gas market, most recently in a very thoughtful...

Gazprom and China National Petreleum Corporation will continue negotiations for pricing, volume, route and duration of gas supply to China. It is expected that the two companies may sign a framework agreement the supply of gas to China.

Natural gas advanced to a nine-month high in New York as Caterpillar Inc. topped third-quarter profit estimates and said there were signs of an economic recovery.

Fuel use may increase as Caterpillar, the world’s biggest maker of bulldozers and excavators, said industrial production has improved and forecast a 3 percent expansion...

Russia, the world’s biggest energy supplier, increased oil output 1.7 percent to a post-Soviet high in September from a year earlier after OAO Rosneft, Russia’s largest crude producer, brought a new field on line in August.

Russia will put out the welcome mat for Big Oil this week, as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin hosts a meeting on developing the huge natural-gas reserves of Yamal, one of the energy world’s last great prizes. But it is unclear whether any of the world’s leading oil companies will be interested in the tough terms Russia is expected to demand.