From June 2014 to May 2015, when the oil and gas prices as measured by the PPI fell by 49%, the PPI by industry classification showed the following changes: - Rates for drilling activities, which primarily represent service fees for contractors to drill oil and gas wells, declined by 19.6%. - Rates for support activities, which include the surveying, cementing, casing, and otherwise treating wells, declined by 1.4%. - The price of sands primarily used for hydraulic fracturing declined 12.5%.

U.S. Rig Count is down 2 rigs from last week to 857, with oil rigs down 4 to 631, gas rigs up 2 to 223, and miscellaneous rigs unchanged at 3. U.S. Rig Count is down 1001 rigs from last year at 1858, with oil rigs down 914, gas rigs down 88, and miscellaneous rigs up 1. The U.S. Offshore rig count is 27, down 2 rigs from last week, and down 32 rigs year over year.

ОАО «НК «Роснефть» и BP в рамках Петербургского международного экономического форума подписали сегодня ряд соглашений, призванных укрепить долгосрочные стратегические отношения между компаниями.

ОАО «НК «Роснефть» и Китайская национальная химическая корпорация (China National Chemical Corporation, ChemChina) в рамках Петербургского международного экономического форума подписали прямой контракт на поставку нефти в адрес китайской компании.

ОАО «НК «Роснефть» и Total S.A. в рамках Петербургского международного экономического Форума подписали Соглашение, подтверждающее заключение Договора купли-продажи 16,67% эффективной доли в нефтеперабатывающем заводе в г. Шведт, Германия (PCK Raffinerie GmbH). Подписи под документом поставили Председатель Правления ОАО «НК «Роснефть» Игорь Сечин и Главный исполнительный директор Total S.A. Патрик Пуянне.

НГК «Итера», 100% дочернее общество ОАО «НК «Роснефть», и General Electric в рамках Петербургского международного экономического форума заключили соглашение о намерениях в отношении сотрудничества в области переработки природного газа.

US Arctic oil and gas policies should recognize the industry’s extensive global Far North experience and technology, American Petroleum Institute officials said. “If we don’t use this knowledge, other Arctic nations will move to the forefront of energy development there,” API Upstream Operations Director Erik Milito told reporters at a June 12 briefing.

In Budapest, Mr. Šefčovič reported that, in the wake of the cancellation of South Stream last December, all parties in Europe have been paying attention to statements from Russia, as a gas supplier, and Europe's stance on infrastructure has been altered.

Deepwater oil projects and complex gas facilities worth around $200 billion have been cancelled or put on hold worldwide in recent months due to the sharp drop in oil prices over the past year, consultancy Ernst and Young said.

Large cuts in the energy industry have made news for the first two quarters of 2015. Halliburton cut 9,000 jobs in six months and reported a loss of $643 million in Q1 of 2015. Schlumberger reported even deeper cuts that tallied around 11,000 in efforts to reduce personnel employment 15 percent when compared to the third quarter of 2014.