South Africa based international certification agency Bureau Veritas has issued new FSU notations and guidance to support the construction and operation of Floating Storage and Regasification Units (FSRUs) and Floating Storage Units (FSUs)

Chemical monitoring and management solutions company Lux Assure has appointed Saudi Arabia’s First Style as a sales agent for LUX’s corrosion management products CoMic™ and OMMICA™ to customers in the region

Saudi Arabia’s oil production amounted to 10.290 mmbbl per day in July 2018, down about 200,000 bpd from June 2018, despite the pledge of the top OPEC producer to ramp up output during the 174th meeting of the OPEC Conference in Vienna on 23 June

OPEC oil production fell by 420,000 bpd from January to May 2018 as the continued political disruption in Venezuela and decline in Angolan oilfields resulted in significant output losses

Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME), the premier international energy futures and commodities exchange in the Middle East, has reported a new exchange-wide open interest record of 71,586 lots on 31 July 2018, which is equivalent to almost 71.5 mmbbl of crude oil