The Asia and Pacific region is also starting to recover tentatively, but at multiple speeds. Economic activity is expected to contract by −2.2 percent in 2020, due to a sharper-than-expected downturn in key emerging markets, and to grow by 6.9 percent in 2021—0.6 percentage point lower and 0.3 percentage point higher, respectively,

The blue-chip CSI300 index ended 0.3% lower at 4,777.98, while the Shanghai Composite Index shed 0.4% to 3,312.50.

A little over 150 km of Nord Stream 2 remains to be laid in Danish and German waters, but with the political debate becoming ever more frenzied, it remains unclear how and when the pipeline will be completed.

Farzad-B gas field was discovered by a consortium of three Indian companies ONGC, Oil India Limited and Indian Oil Corporation in 2008 in the Farsi offshore block of the Persian Gulf. Tehran and New Delhi have since negotiated the terms of the field’s development for years.

The Spanish energy group Iberdrola, through its affiliate Avangrid, has acquired PNM Resources, the power utility of New Mexico and Texas, for a total consideration of US$8.3bn.

US shale producer Pioneer Natural Resources has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire its peer Parsley Energy

Third quarter production of 25.1 mmboe was a record for Santos and 22% higher than the prior quarter

Brent were at $42.44 a barrel, WTI slipped 73 cents, or 1.75%, to $40.97.

Russia's Rosatom has entered a competition to establish a nuclear power plant in Saudi Arabia, as part of Rosatom’s global expansion.

A little over 150 km of Nord Stream 2 remains to be laid in Danish and German waters after an initial threat of US sanctions last December forced principal pipe-layer Allseas to halt work.