The Ukrainian company's claims against the Russian state over the Crimea assets were left out of a settlement deal with Russia's Gazprom agreed at the end of December, which canceled out all existing arbitration claims by both parties as part of a new transit contract.

EQT Corp, the largest U.S. gas producer, recently said it would take a write-down of as much as $1.8 billion, following CNX Resources Corp, Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Chevron Corp in reducing the value of gas properties.

US imports of unfinished oils from Russia averaged 472,000 b/d in November, the most since May 2013, when the same amount of unfinished oils was imported from Russia.

U.S. gas producers are counting on LNG exports to absorb record production from the shale boom. Those exports jumped 68% to a record 5.0 billion cubic feet per day in 2019 after soaring 53% in 2018.

Rosneft Oil Company and Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) signed a contract to supply up to 2 million tonnes of oil to India via the port of Novorossiysk by the end of 2020.

Gas demand across Europe has been unseasonably weak in January due to warm weather, with the month also seeing a re-routing of Russian gas exports to Europe with the start-up of the TurkStream gas pipeline to Turkey replacing some flows via Ukraine.

When replacing hard coal, natural gas achieves an immediate 50 percent reduction of CO2 emissions.

China imported 14.91 million mt of propane in 2019, up 10.8% or 1.45 million mt from 2018

Iraq's federal exports averaged 3.3 million b/d, compared with 3.43 million b/d in December, the oil ministry said in a statement on Saturday. The January figure is 420,000 b/d lower than the all-time high of 3.726 million b/d reached in December 2018.

Petronet will invest the money over a five-year period in Tellurian’s proposed $27.5 billion Driftwood LNG export project in Louisiana and the deal will give Petronet an equity stake in the project and rights for up to 5 million tonnes a year of LNG,

The big annual boost in Saudi shipments followed a new marketing strategy by state-run Aramco, which signed at least two new supply pacts with private refiners in China that came into the market from late 2018. Previously, Saudi Aramco had only dealt with China’s state refiners in long-term contracts.

Turkey's total gas consumption decreased by 15.8% to approximately 3.44 bcm in November 2019, from around 4.09 bcm in November 2018.

Gazprom supplied its first billion cubic meters of gas via the TurkStream gas pipeline.

The price of gas on the wholesale market decreased from €23.2/MWh in 2018 to €13.6/MWh in 2019 (-41%).

Nigeria has 202tn ft³ of proven gas reserves and an additional 600tn ft³ of unproven potential resources. Despite having the largest gas reserves in Africa, only c.25pc of these reserves are currently productive.