According to Tansim News Agency, South Africa has formally announced its readiness to resume crude imports from Iran, once sanctions were fully lifted.
“We are laying the necessary groundwork for gas exports” to the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman, announced Managing Director of the National Iranian Gas Exports Company (NIGEC) Ali Reza Kameli
India’s state-run exploration company ONGC is investing in a massive offshore Mozambique gas field with estimated reserves of more than 75 tcf, reported the India Economic Times.
Schlumberger has announced that it will buy oil services rival Cameron International for nearly $13b in cash and stocks, reported The Wall Street Journal.
Royal Dutch Shell announced on Friday that gas supplies to Nigeria's LNG export terminal on Bonny Island had suffered a reduction thanks to the shutdown of a major oil pipeline in the country