The Worldwide Rig Count for June was 1,800, up 17 from the 1,783 counted in May 2023, and up 94, from the 1,706 counted in June 2022.

Brent were up 20 cents, or 0.3%, at $76.72 a barrel, WTI gained 19 cents, also 0.3%, to $71.99 a barrel.

UAE energy minister Suhail al-Mazrouei said the voluntary OPEC+ cuts would bear fruit soon and blamed the current market malaise on the disconnect between physical and paper traders.

Oil-entropy is still ongoing,somewhat of a tug of war developing with a mix of SPR watch outs.At least the volume on the Geopolitics has toned down a bit,maybe on the 'baguette' side of life where protests have been rocking Paris.Taiwan presidential hopeful vows to maintain peace with China.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 1.5 million barrels to 452.2 million barrels.

Brent rose 16 cents or 0.2% to stand at $74.67, WTI gained 8 cents or 0.1% to $69.95.

Asian demand has also led to Saudi Aramco's optimism about the global oil market's prospects for the rest of the year, its CEO Amin H. Nasser said at the conference, adding that oil market fundamentals remain "generally sound".

“Norway is the only net exporter of oil and gas in Europe, and by implementing these projects we ensure new production from the latter half of the 2020s, so that we can maintain high Norwegian deliveries,”

Under the terms of the deal announced on Friday, Eni will acquire Neptune for $2.6bn, while Vår Energi — Eni’s Norwegian listed subsidiary — will acquire the company’s operations in Norway for $2.3bn.

Brent slipped 51 cents, or 0.4%, to $73.76 a barrel, WTI were down 42 cents, or 0.6%, at $69.09.

The two players intend to invest up to 4 billion euros or almost $4.4 billion for the development phase of the project to be spent mostly during 2024-2026, which will enable about 100 bcm of natural gas to be brought on stream, turning Romania into – what OMV Petrom deems to be – the largest gas producer in the EU and a net natural gas exporter.

Preliminary production figures for May 2023 show an average daily production of 1 991 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 3.8 million barrels to 463.3 million barrels.

Brent dipped 17 cents, or 0.2%, to $75.50 a barrel, WTI dropped 16 cents, also 0.2%, to $70.46 a barrel.

Believe it or not, the concept of reserve power is a foreign one in Texas. The bill passed with a caveat: any increase in costs could not exceed $1 billion annually.