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2017, February, 22, 19:00:00
NORWAY'S PRODUCTION DOWN 42 TBD
Preliminary production figures for January 2017 show an average daily production of about 2 024 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate.
This is 42 000 barrels per day (about 2 percent) less than December 2016.
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2017, February, 18, 19:00:00
U.S. RIGS UP 10
U.S. Rig Count is up 237 rigs from last year's count of 514, with oil rigs up 184, gas rigs up 52, and miscellaneous rigs up 1.
Canadian Rig Count is up 125 rigs from last year's count of 206, with oil rigs up 85 and gas rigs up 40.
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2017, February, 17, 19:05:00
РЕШЕНИЕ НА 500 МЛРД. $
Это стало возможным только после того, как цены на нефть упали до $27 за баррель, а инвестиции в отрасль после двух лет кризиса сократились примерно на полтриллиона долларов.
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2017, February, 17, 19:00:00
U.S. OIL PRODUCTION UP
U.S. crude oil production increased for the second consecutive month in November 2016, the first consecutive monthly increase since April 2015.
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2017, February, 14, 19:00:00
U.S. OIL GAS PRODUCTION UP AGAIN
U.S. oil production will up 80 tbd, gas production will up 524 mcfd.
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2017, February, 11, 19:00:00
U.S. RIGS UP 12
U.S. Rig Count is up 200 rigs from last year's count of 541, with oil rigs up 152, gas rigs up 47, and miscellaneous rigs up 1.
Canadian Rig Count is up 130 rigs from last year's count of 222, with oil rigs up 89 and gas rigs up 41.
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2017, February, 10, 18:55:00
GLOBAL OIL PRODUCTION DOWN
Oil supplies fell by around 1.5 million barrels per day last month, including by 1 million bpd for OPEC, leading to record initial compliance of 90 percent with a six-month output-cut deal reached in December by big producers to boost prices.
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2017, February, 10, 18:30:00
INDONESIA NEEDS $80 BLN INVESTMENTS
Indonesia needs to invest $70 billion to $80 billion in gas infrastructure through 2030 to avoid a potential gas shortage, as domestic consumption growth outpaces supply, state-owned energy business Pertamina said Tuesday.
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2017, February, 7, 18:50:00
ПОЗИТИВНОЕ ВЛИЯНИЕ РОССИИ
В ходе встречи стороны обсудили ход реализации соглашения стран, входящих и не входящих в ОПЕК, об ограничении добычи нефти и отметили позитивное влияние достигнутых договоренностей на мировой рынок нефти.
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2017, February, 7, 18:35:00
NOV VARCO NET LOSS $714 MLN
National Oilwell Varco, Inc. (NYSE: NOV) reported a fourth quarter 2016 net loss of $714 million, or $1.90 per share. Excluding other items, net loss for the quarter was $57 million, or $0.15 per share. Other items totaled $706 million, pretax, and were primarily associated with inventory charges, facility closures, and severance.
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2017, February, 7, 18:30:00
WORLDWIDE RIG COUNT UP 27
The worldwide rig count for January 2017 was 1,918, up 146 from the 1,772 counted in December 2016, and up 27 from the 1,891 counted in January 2016.
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2017, February, 6, 18:30:00
U.S. RIGS UP 17
U.S. Rig Count is up 158 rigs from last year's count of 571, with oil rigs up 116, gas rigs up 41, and miscellaneous rigs up 1.
Canadian Rig Count is up 101 rigs from last year's count of 242, with oil rigs up 66 and gas rigs up 35.
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2017, February, 3, 18:40:00
WEATHERFORD & NABORS ALLIANCE
Weatherford International plc (NYSE: WFT) and Nabors Industries Ltd. (NYSE: NBR) announced today they have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form an alliance focused on delivering enhanced drilling solutions to the oil and gas land market in the lower 48 states of the United States.
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2017, February, 2, 18:45:00
OPEC, RUSSIA CUTS
Therefore, OPEC has raised its supply to Asia, and Russia has also re-routed a great chunk of its rising production toward China and the Asia-Pacific over the past decade. Russia surpassed Saudi Arabia as China's biggest supplier last year, exporting 1.05 million bpd of crude versus Saudi Arabia's 1.02 million.
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2017, February, 2, 18:35:00
GLOBAL OIL&GAS DEALS
Global oil and gas deal activity in 2016 recovered from a slow start to the year with help from the announcements of midstream and oilfield services (OFS) megadeals. Deal value increased in 2016 to US$395 billion from US$340 billion in 2015, while deal volume fell by 27% year-on-year.