Russia's energy ministry on Friday confirmed that it was cutting oil supplies by 500,000 barrels per day in August by cutting exports, state news agency TASS reported. (Reporting by Reuters)
U.S. energy firms this week added oil and natural gas rigs for the first time in 10 weeks, due to the biggest weekly increase in gas rigs since October 2016, energy services firm Baker Hughes Co said in its closely followed report on Friday.
The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog will meet South Korea's foreign minister and a top nuclear safety official on Saturday as part of a bid to calm fears over Japan's plan to discharge treated radioactive water from its tsunami-hit Fukushima plant.
Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company'S (KIPIC) distillation unit 21 at the al-Zour refinery has come online, paving the way for the refinery to operate at full capacity, it said on Twitter. (Reporting by Nadine Awadalla Editing by David Goodman )
Oilfield services firm Baker Hughes said on Thursday it will supply three liquefaction trains for NextDecade's Rio Grande liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Texas.