"The complex is still having difficulty holding rallies as the 2-day injection of hurricane related storm premium appears to have run its course and the reality of amply supplied markets...[is] brought back to the forefront again."
-Prudential Financial said in a report after a $1.90/barrel collapse Wednesday on crude futures after the latest US stock data showed a 2.1 million increase in gasoline inventories according to the EIA, higher than the 1.6 million barrel build analysts had projected, but less than the 4.3 million barrel rise API reported

-"The parties agreed to continue cooperation in marketing Russian LNG, including from the Shtokman project, in the US,"
- Russian gas giant Gazprom said on Wednesday. It remains in talks with US' Sempra on the latter's participation in marketing liquefied natural gas from the Shtokman field in the US.

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