Oil and gas investments in Norway are expected to rise by 3.8% next year to 194.6 billion Norwegian crowns ($21.2 billion) before declining in subsequent years, an industry lobby group said on Thursday.

Norway's preliminary production figures for November 2019 show an average daily production of 2 016 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate, which is an increase of 235 000 barrels per day compared to October.

This would make Aramco's listing the world's largest, beating Alibaba's $25bn IPO at $25.6bn.

China on Monday set up a new centrally-administered state-owned enterprise (SOE), the China Oil & Gas Piping Network Corporation.

The worldwide rig count for November 2019 was 2,042, down 81 from the 2,123 counted in October 2019, and down 224 from the 2,266 counted in November 2018.

U.S. Rig Count is down 3 rigs from last week to 799, Canada Rig Count is up 12 rigs from last week to 138,

У России есть все необходимые конкурентные преимущества для того, чтобы обеспечить себе лидирующие позиции на мировом рынке водородной энергетики: это наличие резервов производственных мощностей, географическая близость к потенциальным потребителям водорода, а также наличие действующей инфраструктуры транспортировки.

“С удовольствием хотел бы отметить, что наши контакты стали более регулярными и насыщенными, а сотрудничество между компаниями из России и Нигерии планомерно нарастает. Мы приветствуем подписание «на полях» саммита «Россия-Африка» меморандума о взаимопонимании между ПАО “ЛУКОЙЛ” и нигерийской нефтяной госкорпорации Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, при этом есть стремление к развитию и газового сотрудничества”, - подчеркнул глава Минэнерго России.

Renewable energy sources alone are not capable of fully decarbonising the economy, but they can complement nuclear energy in achieving this goal. The nuclear industry, led by World Nuclear Association, has set the Harmony goal for nuclear energy to provide 25% of global electricity by 2050. This will require trebling nuclear generation from its present level.

They believe relentless US oil production growth will slow rapidly next year.

In total, the Saudi government plans to sell 0.5% of Aramco to individual investors and the remainder to domestic institutions and international firms registered in the kingdom, known as qualified foreign investors.

Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and ADNOC Group CEO, highlighted during his speech at the meeting that the vision of the UAE leadership established a long-term forward-looking vision for the future of energy and oil aiming to enhance the leading and advanced standing of the UAE in the sector. He shed light on the qualitative leap achieved by ADNOC for institutional development and modernization by the adoption of innovation and technology aims to continue to contribute to the achievement of the leadership vision by diversifying sources of income and investment in national talent and business sustainability and shaping the future.

Al Mazrouei led a UAE economic delegation comprised of government and private sectors' officials in a two-day visit to Sudan where they explored paths of cementing bilateral relations in areas of trade, investment, energy, mining, electricity, infrastructure and agriculture.

Сотрудничество России и Азербайджана насчитывает долгие годы и основано на принципе добрососедства и стратегического партнерства, отметил Александр Новак в ходе встречи.

В рамках встречи главы энергетических ведомств России и Омана обсудили многостороннее взаимодействие стран в рамках ОПЕК+, а также на площадке ФСЭГ в рамках развития газового сотрудничества стран.