"Today about 18 million barrels of oil on a daily basis flows through this choke point coming from Saudi Arabia, emirates and other countries to China, Japan, India and other Asian customers." "But at the same time it is a major route for LNG, liquefied natural gas. About 30% of LNG goes through this strait, coming again to Japan, South Korea, and other Asian countries."

BHGE - U.S. Rig Count is down 6 rigs from last week to 969, with oil rigs down 1 to 788, gas rigs down 5 to 181, and miscellaneous rigs unchanged at 0. Canada Rig Count is up 4 rigs from last week to 107, with oil rigs up 10 to 69 and gas rigs down 6 to 38.

Front-month Brent crude futures were at $62.56 at 0707 GMT, up 27 cents, or 0.4%, from Monday’s close. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at $53.75 per barrel, 49 cents, or 0.9%, above their last settlement.

The document sets the price of the deal during which OMV will obtain a 24.98 per cent stake in the project for developing Blocks 4A and 5A in the Achimov formations of the Urengoyskoye field at EUR 905 million (USD 1.02 billion at the cross rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation as of June 7, 2019). The parties plan to enter into the final agreement on the deal before the end of 2019.

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.

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

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.

Russia's Gazprom Neft said Thursday it and Shell have agreed to create a joint venture to develop fields in West Siberia with combined estimated reserves of 1.1 billion mt of oil.

Cyprus will earn an estimated $9.3 bln over 18 years from exploiting its Aphrodite gas field under a renegotiated contract with Shell, US-based Noble and Israel?s Delek, the energy minister said

Venezuela's exports of crude oil and refined products fell 17% in May from the previous month to 874,500 barrels per day

Total world crude oil production increased sharply in 2018 by 1.213 million barrels/day (mb/d), or 1.6%, as compared to 2017, to reach 75.78 mb/d, marking a historical high and the highest annual growth since 2015.

Saudi Arabia produced 9.65 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil in May, a Saudi industry source said, a deeper cut than its target set by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies including Russia, a group known as OPEC+.

The production fall resulted mainly from the closure due to oil contamination of Russia’s Druzhba pipeline, which usually ships 1 million bpd, or 1 percent of global oil demand.

Aramco hiked the July price differential for its flagship Arab Light grade by 60 cents/b to a premium of $2.70/b to the average of Oman/Dubai, the highest since January 2014, when it was a premium of $3.75/b to Oman/Dubai.