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Activist investor Carl Icahn is set to win enough Illumina Inc shareholder support to install at least one of his three nominees to the gene sequencing machine maker's board, two people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

Mexican state-run oil firm Pemex said Wednesday nine people were injured after an illegal tap caused a pipeline to explode in the State of Mexico.

Oil loadings from Russia's western ports in June will fall by 6% on a daily basis from May, undermined by Russia's voluntary oil production cuts and higher domestic refinery runs, market sources said and Reuters calculations showed.

Canadian oil sands production is expected to reach 3.7 million barrels per day by 2030, S&P Global said on Thursday, raising the analytics firm's 2030 production outlook for the country for the first time in half a decade.

Islamist militants stormed a natural gas and oil extraction plant in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing four police and two private guards, police said.

Shell has cut crude oil imports at its Singapore refinery this month and is relying on smaller tankers after extending repairs at its single buoy mooring (SBM) facility to June, according to government notices and shipping data.

The Russian government is considering a possible gasoline export ban to prevent domestic fuel shortages and price increases after a decision to reduce subsidies for refineries, industry and government sources told Reuters on Tuesday.

Charlie Barrett walks through an oilfield in New Mexico's southeastern desert, where the air smells of rotten eggs and old pumpjacks sit among shrub oaks, and turns on an infrared camera that can detect emissions from oil and gas equipment.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recommended delaying a scheme that would give electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers tradable credits under a federal biofuel program, in a final rule that the White House will now review, two sources familiar with the matter said.

The U.S. on Tuesday renewed for six months a license authorizing a group of U.S. oil service companies to preserve assets in Venezuela, keeping long-standing restrictions that prevent them from drilling, processing or handling any Venezuela-origin barrel of oil.