The United States will continue to impose sanctions on whoever purchases Iran’s oil or conducts business with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and no oil waivers will be re-issued, a U.S. official said on Sunday.

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 130,000 in August, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported

U.S. Rig Count is down 6 rigs from last week to 898, with oil rigs down 4 to 738, gas rigs down 2 to 160, and miscellaneous rigs unchanged at 0. Canada Rig Count is down 3 rigs from last week to 147, with oil rigs down 3 to 102 and gas rigs unchanged at 45.

Bankruptcy filings by U.S. energy producers through mid-August this year have nearly matched the total for the whole of 2018. A stock index of oil and gas producers hit an all-time low in August, a sign investors are expecting more trouble ahead.

President Hassan Rouhani has stressed Iran's determination to take the third step towards reducing Iran’s obligations to the Joint Comprehensive of Plan of Action(JCPOA)

“Iran has repeatedly stated that it will resume full implementation of its commitments to the JCPOA only when it can freely sell its oil and fully access its oil revenues. France’s initiative is exactly about this issue,” Araghchi said.

The US has said it intend to bring Iran's oil exports down to zero. In July Iranian crude and condensates exports totaled around 450,000 b/d, which was less than half of the May export figure of 910,000 b/d,

Brian Hook, the U.S. special envoy for Iran, said Wednesday that the U.S. will “continue to drive up the costs” for Tehran’s efforts to develop ballistic missiles and take other actions soon after the Treasury Department imposed new restrictions on a shipping network controlled by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG now amount to 10% of the global market and at 22 million tonnes so far this year are equal to the total volumes pumped out in 2018,

the U.S. goods and services deficit was $54.0 billion in July, down $1.5 billion from $55.5 billion in June

India's Petronet LNG is eyeing stakes in gas projects in the US and other countries in an effort to strengthen its grip on the supply sources as it expects India's import demand to grow sharply

In June 2019, for the 26th consecutive month, dry natural gas production increased year to year for the month. The preliminary level for dry natural gas production in June 2019 was 2,735 billion cubic feet (Bcf), or 91.2 Bcf/d. This level was 9.4 Bcf/d (11.5%) higher than the June 2018 level of 81.8 Bcf/d.

DOE is currently working with the Department of Defense to demonstrate and deploy microreactors as early as 2023. These smaller, transportable, factory-built systems can boost resiliency and reliability of energy at remote military locations.

U.S. Rig Count is down 12 rigs from last week to 904, with oil rigs down 12 to 742, gas rigs unchanged at 162, and miscellaneous rigs unchanged at 0. Canada Rig Count is up 11 rigs from last week to 150, with oil rigs up 10 to 105 and gas rigs up 1 to 45.

At 427.8 million bbl, US crude oil inventories are at the 5-year average for this time of year