Total has announced the closing of the agreement signed on 21 December 2018 with national oil company Sonangol to develop petroleum product retail operations in Angola

Italian oil and gas industry contractor Saipem has been awarded new contracts and extensions on existing contracts in onshore drilling and offshore drilling for an overall amount of approximately US$1.7bn

The Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (APICORP) has agreed to two loan facilities worth a combined US$250mn with Sonatrach Petroleum Investment Corporation (SPIC), a subsidiary of Sonatrach International Holding Corporation owned by Sonatrach, the Algerian state-owned national oil company

Honeywell has acquired Rebellion Photonics, a Houston-based provider of innovative, intelligent, visual gas monitoring solutions with an aim to maximise safety, operational performance, emissions mitigation and compliance in the oil and gas, petrochemical and power industries