The organic reserve replacement rate, excluding the effect from acquisitions and disposals, which mainly related to the disposal of 40% participation interest in Arctic LNG 2 project, amounted to 252%, with the addition of 1,487 million boe, inclusive of 2019 production.

"We are ready to move to the next phase of implementing Europe's first large-scale hydrogen plant," Nouryon's head of industrial chemicals, Knut Schwalenberg, said.

Kuwait GDP growth to about 0.7 percent in 2019 from 1.2 percent in 2018.

U.S. Rig Count is down 2 rigs from last week to 794, Canada Rig Count is unchanged from last week at 244

Brent were up 31 cents, or 0.5%, at $62.35 a barrel, WTI were up 27 cents, or 0.5% higher at $55.86 a barrel.

For 2020, oil demand growth is revised up by 0.14 mb/d from the previous month’s assessment and is forecast at 1.22 mb/d, mainly reflecting an improved economic outlook for 2020. As a result, total world oil demand is projected to rise from 99.77 mb/d in 2019 to 100.98 mb/d in 2020.

U.S. petroleum exports hit a new all-time high of 9.0 million barrels per day (mb/d) in the final month of 2019

U.S. and Canadian oil and natural gas exploration and production company bankruptcies totaled 42 in 2019, up from 28 in 2018,

U.S. crude oil production will average 13.3 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2020, a 9% increase from 2019 production levels, and 13.7 million b/d in 2021, a 3% increase from 2020.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that U.S. natural gas exports will exceed natural gas imports by an average 7.3 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2020 (2.0 Bcf/d higher than in 2019) and 8.9 Bcf/d in 2021. Growth in U.S. net exports is led primarily by increases in liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports and pipeline exports to Mexico. Net natural gas exports more than doubled in 2019, compared with 2018, and EIA expects that they will almost double again by 2021 from 2019 levels.