BHGE: Global rig count surpassed 2,000 in June

The global rig count in June climbed by 106 to average 2,041, an increase of 634 units year-over-year, according to data from Baker Hughes, a GE company. The US and Canada together added 103 units during the month. Source: News


AWE begins drilling of Waitsia-4 appraisal well

AWE Ltd., Sydney, has spudded the last well in its 2017 appraisal program in Waitsia gas field onshore the northern part of the Perth basin in Western Australia. Source: News


Equate Petrochemical shutters Shuaiba ethylene unit

Equate Petrochemical Co., Kuwait’s first international petrochemical joint venture, has temporarily shuttered subsidiary Kuwait Olefins Co.’s (KOC) 850,000-tonne/year ethylene unit 2 (EU2) at Equate’s complex in the Shuaiba Industrial Area. Source: News


Summit Midstream to build Delaware basin midstream complex

Summit Midstream Partners LP has agreed to develop, own, and operate an associated gas gathering and processing system servicing ExxonMobil Corp. subsidiary XTO Energy Inc.’s acreage in the northern Delaware basin in Eddy and Lea counties of New Mexico. Source: News


Russians tried to influence US energy markets, House Republicans say

Two senior Republicans on the US House Science, Space, and Technology Committee asked Treasury Sec. Steven T. Mnuchin to investigate allegations that Russian state-sponsored entities funneled money to US environmental organizations opposed to fossil fuels in an effort to disrupt domestic energy markets. Source: News