Venezuela said on Tuesday it will cut 95,000 barrels-per-day of oil production in the New Year in fulfilment of a producers' deal to reduce global output and strengthen prices.

A new deposit in Serbia’s Pannonian oil and gas basin may contain recoverable reserves of 432,000 tonnes, according to Russia's PJSC Gazprom Neft. The Idos-X-4 well was drilled to the Neogene-aged formation at a depth of 2,268-2,287 m in the Idos-Sever (Northern Idos) field.

U.S. Rig Count is down 47 rigs from last year's count of 700, with oil rigs down 15, gas rigs down 33, and miscellaneous rigs up 1. Canadian Rig Count is up 98 rigs from last year's count of 126, with oil rigs up 62, gas rigs up 31, and miscellaneous rigs up 5.

Iraq is fully committed to delivering on OPEC’s Nov. 30 agreement to reduce supplies, Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi said Thursday in Cairo at a meeting of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, known as OAPEC.

Russia's gas production, including associated petroleum gas, is estimated at 637 Bcm in 2016, which would represent a marginal increase of 0.2% year on year, energy minister Alexander Novak said late Tuesday.

Preliminary production figures for November 2016 show an average daily production of 2 153 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate, which is an increase of 37 000 barrels per day (approx. 2 percent) compared to October.

Россия сегодня добывает больше 11 млн барр. в сутки, мы очень крупный игрок среди стран-производителей, поэтому без нас сегодня практически невозможен процесс регулирования нефтяных рынков. Мы пошли на договоренности по снижению добычи, потому что это даст положительный результат и для бюджета, и для нефтяных компаний, поможет стабилизировать ситуацию в целом. Раньше они балансировали рынок самостоятельно, но в настоящий момент вряд ли страны ОПЕК приняли бы решение о сокращении добычи без нас. В этот раз для ОПЕК было важно участие в сокращении добычи и других стран-производителей, чтобы достичь желаемого эффекта.

U.S. Rig Count is down 72 rigs from last year's count of 709, with oil rigs down 31, gas rigs down 42, and miscellaneous rigs up 1. Canadian Rig Count is up 72 rigs from last year's count of 162, with oil rigs up 45, gas rigs up 25, and miscellaneous rigs up 2.

Japanese refiners have received notices of crude supply cuts from "some producers" for January loading, following OPEC's November 30 decision to cut production.

Iraq plans to increase crude-oil exports in January, government records show, immediately raising questions about its commitment to slashing production in line with OPEC’s landmark production agreement last month.

Operations have restarted at two key oil fields and a connected pipeline in Western Libya that have been shut down for over two years, Libyan officials said, following an agreement with local tribes.

Oil production companies recorded positive earnings from their upstream (exploration and production) operations in the third quarter of 2016 for the first time since the fourth quarter of 2014.

Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Rainer Seele, Chairman of the OMV Executive Board, signed the Basic Agreement regarding the asset swap. The signing ceremony took place in the presence of Hans Jörg Schelling, Minister of Finance of the Republic of Austria, and Anatoly Yanovsky, Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia.

Общий объем соглашений в области нефти и газа между Россией и ИРИ может превысить 10 млрд долларов США.

Gazprom joins Lukoil PJSC and Zarubrezhneft OAO in Russia, Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said in Tehran at the signing ceremony. Salbali Karimi, managing director of the Iranian Central Oil Fields Co., and Alexander Dyukov, chairman of the management board and chief executive officer of Gazprom Neft, signed the memorandum of understanding.