PAO NOVATEK (“NOVATEK” and/or the “Company”) announced that it has signed the Share Purchase Agreement (“Agreement”) with wholly owned subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation (“CNPC”) in relation to the sale of a 10% participation interest in the Arctic LNG 2 project.

PAO NOVATEK (“NOVATEK” and/or the “Company”) announced that it has signed the Share Purchase Agreement (“Agreement”) with CNOOC Ltd. (“CNOOC”) in relation to the sale of a 10% participation interest in the Arctic LNG 2 project.

PAO NOVATEK (“NOVATEK” and/or the “Company”), Total Gas & Power Business Services S.A.S, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft and JSC Zarubezhneft (Zarubezhneft) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on cooperation in Vietnam.

Saipem, in joint venture with McDermott International and Chiyoda Corporation, has reached agreement with Area 1 concessionaires on an EPC contract to engineer and construct an onshore LNG project in Mozambique.

It is essential that Iran fully implements its nuclear-related commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano told the Agency’s Board of Governors

Total nonfarm payroll employment edged up in May (+75,000), and the unemployment rate remained at 3.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.

BHGE - The worldwide rig count for May 2019 was 2,182, up 42 from the 2,140 counted in April 2019, and up 86 from the 2,096 counted in May 2018.

BHGE - U.S. Rig Count is down 9 rigs from last week to 975, with oil rigs down 11 to 789, gas rigs up 2 to 186, and miscellaneous rigs unchanged at 0. Canada Rig Count is up 18 rigs from last week to 103, with oil rigs up 15 to 59 and gas rigs up 3 to 44.

Brent crude futures were up $1.35 at $63.02 a barrel by 0757 GMT. WTI crude futures were up $1.10 at $53.69 per barrel.

В ходе встречи главы энергетических ведомств России и Саудовской Аравии обсудили текущее сотрудничество стран в рамках договоренностей ОПЕК+, а также повестку предстоящего заседания Совместной межправительственной Российско-Саудовская комиссии по торгово-экономическому и научно-техническому сотрудничеству, намеченной к проведению 10 июня в Москве.

Demand for natural gas grew 4.6% in 2018, its fastest annual pace since 2010, according to the IEA’s latest annual market report,

Gazprom's supplies to Hungary from January 1 through June 5, 2019, totaled 4.3 billion cubic meters of gas, a 57.5 per cent increase versus the same period of 2018.

The meeting participants reviewed issues related to cooperation between the companies. Particular attention was paid to joint actions for hydrocarbon production in Russia, namely at the Urengoyskoye and Yuzhno-Russkoye fields.

It was pointed out that the French demand for Russian natural gas has been on the rise for the last four years.

U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe have increased substantially since October 2018, averaging 1.9 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in the winter of 2018–19 compared with 0.1 Bcf/d in the winter of 2017–18.