The Kuwaiti Minister of Oil, Electricity and Water, Mohammed Al-Faris announced the discovery of three new oil fields in different regions of the country for Kuwait Oil Company (KOC).

Sova Capital and BGS brokerages announced that Rosneft company plans to sell its old depreciated oil fields  to local companies.

The head of Al-Tabqah oil field management, Ali Ibrahim, said that the recovery works have started at liberated oil and gas sites in Raqqa province in northern Syria, as well as in the area between the governorate and Hama and Homs provinces, Citing Russia Today (RT) website.

Crude oil production is targeted to reach approximately 710,000 barrels per day (b/d) by June 2020, up from 650,000 - 660,000 in H1 2019.

Algeria’s Sonatrack has packed a deal with the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) to jointly operate a number of crude oil fields located between the two countries’ borders.

Iraq will increase its oil production from one of its oldest oil fields in the south by 20.000b/d

Libya's Sharara and Wafa fields have stopped producing for the second time just one week after a previous shutdown due to an attack from an unidentified armed group that blocked the pipelines on the 9th of April 2017.

Islamic State militants set fire to four oil wells in Qayyara, south of Mosul before abandoning the city in mid August.

The Tunisian Ministry of Energy and Mining has revealed that oil production dropped by 8.6% to 9.48m barrels, while that of natural gas dropped from 12.8% to slightly over 1.2mcm.

Chevron has put all of its Myanmar gas block stakes up for sale, which at a combined likely valuation of $1.3, would be the biggest deal involving Myanmar assets to date, financial sources familiar with the matter