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Energean to supply Israeli power provider IPM with natural gas

Energean Oil and Gas said on Wednesday it has signed an agreement to supply 5.5 billion cubic meters (BCM) of gas from its Karish and Tanin fields over 19 years to I.P.M. Beer Tuvia.

Total to launch fuel retail network with Sonangol

Total has agreed to develop joint activities in the downstream petroleum sector in Angola, with national company Sonangol.

Bonds beckon OPEC's top Arab producers in 2019 after oil falters

Gulf Arab energy companies are expected to borrow more in 2019 to finance expansion plans after rising oil prices triggered a sharp retreat from debt markets in 2018.

Transocean Ltd. awarded $830 million drilling contract for ultra-deepwater drillship

Transocean Ltd. has announced that it has signed a rig design and construction management contract, as well as a five-year drilling contract, with Chevron USA, Inc. for one of its two dynamically positioned ultra-deepwater drillships currently under construction at the Jurong shipyard in Singapore.

Shale explorers boost U.S. work again despite oil price collapse

Oil producers again boosted U.S. drilling this week despite the biggest quarterly drop in oil prices since 2014.

Where have all the rigs gone?

Where have all the rigs gone? While the U.S. continues to add oil and natural gas drilling rigs despite the recent swoon in crude prices, Canada’s count in the past two weeks has dropped from 174 to just 70, the lowest since June 2016. Twelve years ago, it had as many as 727 rigs drilling for oil or natural gas, according to data provided by Baker Hughes Inc.

China slips open door for U.S. natural gas as winter hits

China last month imported two tankers of U.S. liquefied natural gas, nudging open a doorway that had been closed shut for a month at a time when America is rapidly expanding its ability to export the heating fuel.

Gazprom Neft strengthens its own Arctic fleet with a second icebreaker, the Andrey Vilkitsky

The Andrey Vilkitsky icebreaker, built as part of Gazprom Neft’s “Time of the Arctic” program, has been launched in St. Petersburg.

OPEC is in 'whatever it takes' moment to prop up oil prices

OPEC hasn’t even started implementing its new six-month agreement to cut output, and already members responsible for most of the reductions have pledged to extend or even deepen it.

Saipem has received new onshore and offshore drilling contracts worth approximately $255 million

Saipem has been awarded new onshore and offshore drilling contracts worth approximately $255 million.

Saipem: LOI for the award of new E&C Offshore work order for the Ramp Up to Plateau phase of the Zohr Field Development Project, worth more than $1.2 billion

Saipem and Petrobel have negotiated an offshore contract addendum worth more than $1.2 billion for engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) activities in relation to the “Ramp Up to Plateau” phase of the “supergiant” Zohr Field Development Project situated in the Mediterranean Sea off the Egyptian coast.

ISCO Completes Acquisition of Canada's A.H. McElroy

Kentucky-based ISCO Industries said its Canadian subsidiary has completed the acquisition of polyethylene pipe fusion specialists A.H. McElroy Sales and Service and will operate the combined business as ISCO-A.H. McElroy.

Lawmakers Urge U.S. Agency to Bolster Pipeline Cybersecurity

Two Democratic lawmakers urged the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to better protect oil and gas pipelines from cyber-attacks, after a report they requested detailed a lack of federal oversight of the critical conduits.

Rising LNG demand to exert more pull on U.S. natural gas prices

U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity is on the brink of doubling in 2019, which will boost the super-cooled fuel’s influence on the U.S. natural gas market, where volatility surged in 2018 after several years of slumber.

Lithuania to import LNG until at least 2044, to purchase LNG vessel

Lithuanian parliament voted to operate its liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility at least until 2044 and told state-owned Klaipedos Nafta to purchase an LNG regasification vessel by late 2024.

Uniper intensifies LNG plans with Japan's Mitsui OSK

Energy group Uniper entered agreements with Japanese shipping group Mitsui OSK Lines to handle potential deliveries of liquefied natural (LNG) gas into Germany.