In November 2019, the German parliament modified the Energy Industry Act to transpose the European Gas Directive that was amended in April 2019.

The $300 billion Public Investment Fund bought stakes in global corporate leaders such as Boeing, Facebook, Disney, Marriott and Starbucks. It also invested in two big US banks, Citigroup and Bank of America, and took holdings in oil giants BP, Total and Royal Dutch Shell.

“We have to see that Chinese companies, partly with the support of state funds, are increasingly trying to buy up European companies that are cheap to acquire or that got into economic difficulties due to the coronavirus crisis,”

The new China's project for receiving imported liquefied natural gas (LNG)

In 1Q 2020 negative Net income attributable to Rosneft shareholders amounted to RUB 156 bln (USD 2 bln) which was mainly a result of the forex exchange loss (RUB 177 bln) due to RUB depreciation and revaluation of foreign currency financial liabilities as well as a reduction of the operating income (-64.8% QoQ).

ROSNEFT'S AVERAGE DAILY HYDROCARBON PRODUCTION AMOUNTED TO 5.75 MMBOE

"С учетом драматического состояния в целом глобального нефтяного рынка и в связи с принятыми решениями о сокращении добычи нам придется, конечно, часть капитальных затрат оптимизировать. Мы постараемся сохранить нашу инвестпрограмму на уровне 750 миллиардов примерно",- отметил Сечин. Оптимизация необходима для того, чтобы сохранить финансово-экономическую стабильность для компании, сказал он.

Shell announced that all conditions for its Final Investment Decision (FID) on a new LNG processing unit at Nigeria LNG (NLNG) have now been met.

Supplies to China continue at around 9 million cu m/d through the landmark pipeline -- the first direct link for Russian gas to reach China by pipeline.

The Nord Stream 2 operating company has declined to give any guidance on the schedule for completing the pipeline, saying only that it was "actively looking for solutions" to finish the pipelaying work.

In 2019, Saudi Aramco produced 13.2 mmboed, including 9.9 mmbpd of crude oil (including blended condensate and excluding the Kingdom of Bahrain’s share of volumes produced from Abu Sa’fah field).

Shell and Eneco are participating in the tender for Hollandse Kust (noord) through their joint venture CrossWind.

The Saint-Brieuc wind farm will be constructed some 16 kilometres (9.94 miles) off the coast of Brittany. It will be equipped with 62 units of 8-MW turbines supplied by Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA (BME:SGRE).

GE (NYSE:GE) announced results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2020.

ENEL net income 1,247 million euros (1,256 million euros in the first quarter of 2019, -0.7%)