Jesper Alm has been appointed chief financial officer by Tethys Oil AB following the decision by Morgan Sadarangani to step down from the role. Source: News

Gazprom and Nogaholding of Bahrain have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in liquefied natural gas. Source: News

The Canadian government has called for the creation of an independent review panel to evaluate the environmental assessment for Kitimat Clean Ltd.’s Kitimat Clean Refinery Project (KCRP), a proposed grassroots facility to be built about 13 km north of Kitimat, BC. Source: News

Central Oil & Gas Co., a joint venture of Lukoil, Gazprom, and KazMunayGas, has received a subsoil use license for the Tsentralnaya structure in the Caspian Sea offshore Russia. Source: News

A coalition of 20 Alaskan and national organizations formally launched a campaign urging the US Department of the Interior to keep two oil and gas lease sales offshore Alaska in the next 5-year US Outer Continental Shelf resource management plan. Source: News

The Quadrant Energy Ltd.-operated Roc-2 appraisal of the 2015 gas-condensate discovery in the Bedout Sub-basin off Western Australia has confirmed the presence of hydrocarbons in a good-quality reservoir. Source: News

The US Energy Information Administration noted that refinery earnings were lower in this year’s second-quarter compared with the same time last year and are converging among different locations globally. Source: News