ITALIAN COMP AWARDED $2.8B CONTRACT TO BUILD 2.2GW HYDROPOWER PLANT IN EHTIOPIA

Nigeria oil minister says country's oil output now 1.6Mb/d, up from 1.4M in May. Experts put it now at ~1.1M.

US oil production down to 8.8Mb/d from 9.7M peak in '15.

BP paid out $175M to folks that bought the stock AFTER Deepwater Horizon disaster in Gulf of Mex. Really. That's symbolic of why the market is so convoluted.

At least 1 expert thinks oil can go over $100 by end of next year.

Graphene market to reach over $100M by '23: AMR.