Iraq’s Oil Ministry said it had signed a long-term “strategic framework agreement” with General Electric which comprised several projects to boost national power resources.
Uganda decided to route a multi billion dollar crude export pipeline through Tanzania, forcing neighboring Kenya to develop a separate link to transport its own oil.
Angolan state oil company Sonangol has found oil and natural gas reserves in the basins of the Kwanza and Congo rivers that may total 2.2b boe. The reserves, if they are confirmed, are sufficient to produce 2mb/d for three years.
Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) said the country's eastern government attempted to export 650,000 barrels of oil, but that workers at the Marsa el-Hariga terminal had refused to load the shipment.
The head of the Oil Industry and Markets Division at the International Energy Agency (IEA) told CNBC that he believed both Russia and Saudi Arabia will continue to "pump as much oil as possible."
The failure of the deal to freeze oil production, which could have hastened a recovery in oil prices, puts Nigeria and other cash-strapped oil producers in more trouble.
Kuwait has plans to purchase up to 1.5m metric tons of LNG from Russia on an annual basis, according to Deputy Managing Director of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), Nasser Abdullah Saleh.