Drilling & production - 20 June 2012

According to a recent report by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), 76% of US coal exports in 2011 went to Europe and Asia.

Technip has been awarded an engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning contract for the Bøyla field development.

Rosneft and ExxonMobil have signed an agreement to jointly develop tight oil reserves in Western Siberia and establish a joint Arctic Research Centre for Offshore Developments.

ConocoPhillips has resumed exporting LNG from its Alaskan LNG plant due to increased demand form Japan.

Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister has warned that an exploration contract between Exxon Mobil and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is dangerous and could potentially lead to a breakdown of the unity of Iraq.