Official proposals for the ConocoPhillips-led consortium’s Barossa and Caldita natural gas fields’ development in the offshore Bonaparte basin, 300 km north of Darwin in the eastern Timor Sea, have been made public by the Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety & Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA). Source: News

Mexico is poised to become an increasingly important global oil and gas supplier as reforms take hold and foreign participation grows, International Energy Agency and US Department of Energy leaders agreed during a joint press conference on July 18. Source: News

The Trump administration’s intentions to consider opening more of the US Outer Continental Shelf to oil and gas leasing in a new management program it plans to develop drew equally strong support from Republicans and opposition from Democrats at a July 12 US House of Representatives Natural Resources subcommittee hearing. Source: News

Two related bills passed on July 19 by the US House of Representatives have more importance to the oil and gas industry in the future than at present. They’re important because, if they become law, they’ll restrain presidents inclined to stifle industry work. Source: News

Commercial discoveries in this year’s first half are already greater than the total for 2016, according to a report from Westwood Global Energy Group. Source: News

PJSC Rosneft has completed delivery of major process equipment as part of the ongoing construction of a grassroots hydrocracking plant and methyldiethanolamine (MDEA) regeneration unit at its 8.8-million tonne/year refinery at Novokuibyshev, Samara Oblast, in southeastern Russia. Source: News

Conflicting priorities of influential groups keep Russia from changing tax policy as it must to sustain oil production. Source: News