A group of six U.S. senators wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this week saying Saudi Arabia and Russia “have embarked upon economic warfare against the United States” and were threatening U.S. “energy dominance”.

Saudi energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman and Russian counterpart Alexander Novak have not held any discussions about a joint agreement to balance oil markets, indicating no resolution to the price war.

Oil exporters in the Middle East and North Africa region will lose $192 billion in crude income in 2020

Sovereign wealth funds from oil-producing countries mainly in the Middle East and Africa are on course to dump up to $225 billion in equities,

Some US shale producers have been pressuring the Trump administration to intervene in the price war, which broke out after Russia earlier this month declined to go along with an OPEC proposal for production cuts to prop up prices.

China is saving about $250mn a day after crude prices crashed this year amid dual demand and supply shocks.

Aramco plans to supply 12.3 million barrels per day of crude in the next two months, after talks with Russia to deepend OPEC+ output cuts floundered, starting a price war. The company will draw 3 million barrels per day from its stocks, producing 12 million barrels per day.

OMV, which currently owns a 36 percent stake in Borealis, will acquire an additional 39 percent from Mubadala. The transaction value amounts to $4.68 billion and represents the biggest acquisition in OMV’s history and the largest transaction ever for Mubadala.

nine Republican senators asked the Department of Commerce to launch an anti-dumping case against Saudi Arabia following its price war with Russia.

Aramco has pledged to supply 12.3 million b/d of crude in April and May

Rolls-Royce and its consortium partners have designed the UK SMR, a small pressurised water reactor that they say will be able to operate for 60 years and provide 400–450 MWe.

That, in turn, has prompted several lawmakers from Texas, North Dakota, Alaska and other oil states to directly lobby Saudi Arabia, stressing the two countries' decades-long ties.

The average LNG price for May delivery into northeast Asia LNG-AS was estimated at $3.50 per million British thermal units (mmBtu), up 20 cents from the previous week,

The US sanctioned five UAE companies

Saudi Aramco will supply 12.3 million b/d of crude to the market during the coming months,