Statoil ASA is set to spud the Mariner Segment 9 well in early July, beginning a three-well exploration campaign on the UK Continental Shelf. Source: News

PJSC Gazprom, through its general contractor partner NIPIgazpererabotka (Nipigaz), has let a contract to China Gezhouba Group Corp. (CGGC), Wuhan, Hubei Province, to provide construction and assembly services for process equipment at subsidiary OOO Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk’s (GPB) 42 billion-cu m/year grassroots Amur natural gas processing plant under construction near Svobodny in Russia’s far-east Amur […]

India’s ONGC Videsh Ltd. is to acquire 30% in an exploration license offshore Namibia from a unit of Tullow Oil PLC. Source: News

The Statoil ASA-operated Kayak well in production license 532 of the Barents Sea found oil in two sandstone intervals with thicknesses of 27 m and 18 m, with moderate-to-poor reservoir quality in the upper part of the Kolje formation. Source: News

A federal appeals court vacated the US Environmental Protection Agency’s 90-day pause and ordered it to implement the Obama administration’s limits on methane emissions from oil and gas operations. Source: News

AWE Ltd., Sydney, reported it has confirmed a southern extension to its onshore north Perth basin Waitsia gas field when appraisal well Waitsia-3 encountered strong gas shows across a 1,250-m gross interval, including the Kingia and High Cliff Sandstone reservoir targets. Source: News

Light, sweet crude oil prices for August and September gained by about $1/bbl on July 3 but trading was light on the US July 4 holiday. Source: News