RAK Petroleum Public Company Limited, announced net operating profits of US$5.1mn for the quarter ended 31 March 2011 on turnover of US$17.1mn.

Lamprell announced that it will acquire Maritime Industrial Services (MIS) for US$336.1mn.

ExxonMobil presented the latest edition of the companys Outlook for Energy: A View to 2030 at a roundtable in Dubai outlining the increasing global and regional energy demand.

Irans oil and gas reserves have risen by half a billion barrels and five trillion cubic feet respectively with the discovery of new onshore oil and gas fields in the south and west of the country, an Iranian daily quoted a senior oil official as saying.

The Dow Chemical Company announced that sales in Q1 of 2011 hit US$14.7 billion, a 20 per cent increase compared with the same period last year.