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Media in Kazakhstan are reporting that a major oil-refining plant in the southern city of Shymkent has been damaged in a fire.

On February 3, 2012 Rosneft was the first among international oil and gas companies to publish full audited consolidated US GAAP financial statements for 2011.

Shell's profit for the fourth quarter of 2011 took a knock as widely-anticipated downstream weighed on upstream earnings.

ExxonMobil Corp. and TonenGeneral Sekiyu KK have entered into an agreement valued at $3.9 billion that will result in the restructuring of ExxonMobil’s holdings in Japan.

Rosneft and Sberbank signed a tentative agreement on the acquisition by Rosneft of a 35.3 percent stake in Taas-Yuryakh Neftegazodobycha.

As at 0600 hrs PNG time on 2 February, the well was at a depth of 366 metres and drilling ahead in a 17-½' hole.

The Rompetrol Group through The Rompetrol Group Corporate Center – the managing and governing division of the Group, has recently certified its profile activities and operations in accordance with the integrated system of quality management, environment protection, labor health and security.
 

As a result of geological exploration carried out by Gazprom in 2011, the natural gas reserve increment hit the record level of 686.4 billion cubic meters surpassing the production level by 33.8 per cent.

TNK-BP is to finish drilling six wells at the Russkoe field in Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region in 2012 as part of its preparations for full-scale development of its oil and gas fields in Yamal.

The United Steelworkers union and Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) averted a potential strike that would have idled as many as 69 refineries by tentatively agreeing to a new three-year contract.

Kuwait Energy, and independent explorer with assets throughout the Middle East, yesterday posted record revenues (net of tax) of $50.4m, up 26.9% from Q4 2010 and up 5.2% from Q3 2011.

Gazprom has received today the lists of nominees for the Company’s Board of Directors.

Rosneft reviewed the results of DeGolyer & MacNaughton's independent audit of its hydrocarbon reserves.

MOSCOW, January 30, 2012 – Integra Group (LSE: INTE) announces its current order book status for 2012.

Total is consolidating its positions in petrochemicals in Asia with a new expansion and upgrading project for the Daesan complex in South Korea, which the Group owns with Samsung as part of the Samsung Total Petrochemicals 50/50 joint venture.

The Gazprom headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Management Committee and Sherali Gul, Minister of Energy and Industry, Republic of Tajikistan.

The development of one of the biggest remaining fields in the Timan-Pechora province moves closer. 

At its meeting on January 12, 2012, the Board of Directors of Total accepted the resignation for personal reasons of
Thierry de Rudder as a Director, effective the close of the meeting.

Clean up of the 20 December leak from the Bonga offshore oil field has now been completed successfully. Production resumed at Bonga on January 1 2012, following reinforcement of asset integrity and safety programmes.

In order to further enhance the effectiveness of the management system, the organisational structure of “SIBUR” LLC has been changed. Structural divisions within the corporate centre have been eliminated.

The Gazprom headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company's Management Committee and Andrey Nelidov, Head of the Republic of Karelia.

The Gazprom headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company's Management Committee and Igor Fyodorov, Governor of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO).

A turnkey project-implementation contract was signed in Sofia today for a heavy-residue hydrocracking complex to be built at the LUKOIL Neftochim Burgas refinery. 

IRVING, TX - The Board of Directors of Exxon Mobil Corporation today declared a cash dividend of 47
cents per share on the Common Stock, payable on March 9, 2012 to shareholders of record of Common
Stock at the close of business on February 10, 2012.

Gazprom Neft and the Government of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area signed the Additional Agreement on Social and Economic Cooperation for 2012.

Helle Kristoffersen has been appointed Senior Vice President, Strategy & Business Intelligence at Total. She is a member of the Management Committee and Secretary of the Executive Committee of Total.

The Board of Directors took notice of the information relevant to application of the Guidelines for goods purchase, work completion and services rendering in Gazprom Group. The Guidelines had been enacted on January 1, 2011.

Helle Kristoffersen has been appointed Senior Vice President, Strategy & Business Intelligence at Total. She is a member of the Management Committee and Secretary of the Executive Committee of Total.

Today in Krasnaya Polyana Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Rovnag Abdullayev, President of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) signed in the presence of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Azerbaijani President Ilkham Aliev an addendum to the effective purchase and sale contract for the Azerbaijani natural gas.

At the end of December 2011, Gazpromneft-Nefteservis completed the sale of two of the main production unit’s companies - Servisnaya Burovaya Kompaniya (SBK) and KRS-Servis (KRS).