Capital expenditures were $75 billion in third-quarter 2019, 9% lower than in third-quarter 2018.

Foreign direct investments (FDI) into Oman jumped to $30.26bn (RO11.65bn) in Q2 2019, up 13.3% from the same period in 2018, when it got $26.7bn (RO10.29bn) in FDI, according to the National Centre for Statistics and Information. Investment into manufacturing reached $4.15bn (RO1.6bn) in Q2 2019,

U.S. Rig Count is down 9 rigs from last week to 796, Canada Rig Count is down 14 rigs from last week to 85

Brent were at $68.36 a barrel, up 20 cents, or 0.3%, WTI edged up 5 cents to $61.77 a barrel.

U.S. Rig Count is down 8 rigs from last week to 805, Canada Rig Count is down 50 rigs from last week to 99

Brent were up 6 cents, or 0.1%, at $67.98 a barrel, WTI was up 11 cents, or 0.2%, at $61.79 a barrel.

“It really is a great irony that at a time when the United States became the world’s biggest producer and has become a great exporter, that investors have become skeptical and have adopted a position of ‘show me the money,’”

Brent settled up 81 cents, or 1.22%, at $67.20 a barrel, WTI settled up 59 cents, or 0.97%, at $61.11 a barrel.

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait signed an agreement Tuesday to resume pumping at two major oilfields in a shared neutral zone shut for five years due to a bilateral disagreement, officials said.

Brent was down 22 cents, or 0.33%, at $65.92 per barrel, WTI was down 25 cents, or 0.41%, at $60.19 a barrel

Shell oil production is expected to be between 2,775 and 2,825 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day

U.S. Rig Count is up 14 rigs from last week to 813, Canada Rig Count is down 4 rigs from last week to 149

Brent were up 5 cents, or 0.08%, to 66.59 a barrel, WTI was down 8 cents, or 0.13%, at $61.10 per barrel.

Gazprom, which has already invested in several oil and gas projects in Vietnam, last year signed a new agreement on the development of the Bao Vang gas field and a power station in the central part of country.

Brent dropped 41 cents, or 0.6%, to $65.69 a barrel, WTI fell 52 cents, or 0.9%, to $60.42 per barrel.