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Last Updated: January 2010
January 2009
January 1 Russian gas company Gazprom cut off gas supplies to Ukraine in a dispute over debts and pricing, affectin
about 20 European consumers that depend on Russia for a quarter of their natural gas. A similar gas row brie
disrupted supplies to Europe three years ago. Moscow and Kiev ended the contract row and Russian gas reache
Europe via Ukraine for the first time on January 20. (Reuters)

January 2 The U.S. Energy Department issued a solicitation to purchase about 12 million barrels of oil for the Strateg
Petroleum Reserve to replace supplies sold following hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. The department said it will als
collect repayments from refiners that borrowed oil following hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008. Refiners are expected
return the 5.4 million barrels of oil released in the aftermath of Gustav and Ike, and 120,000 additional barrels required a
payment for the loans, between January and May. (Reuters)

February 2009
February 6 Exports of Iraqi oil from Turkey's port of Ceyhan were delayed by several days due to a payment dispu
between Baghdad and Turkish companies, disrupting shipments that had been running at 400,000 barrels per da
(Reuters)

February 23 Global storage of crude oil in supertankers rose to a high of at least 80 million barrels despite OPEC's
supply cuts, Frontline, the world's largest tanker company, said. (Reuters)

March 2009
March 9 Royal Dutch Shell called a force majeure after a militant attack on its pipeline a week ago and force majeure
expected to be in place for the rest of March and all of April on oil shipments from the Forcados export terminal. Sh
now has four force majeures in place in Nigeria, with most of these called in recent weeks. A Nigerian oil official said th
assault disrupted around 50,000 to 100,000 barrels per day of production. (Dow Jones)

March 12 The European Union imposed anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on imports of U.S. biodiesel, the latest in
series of trade frictions between the two trading partners. (Reuters)

March 16 At its Vienna meeting on March 15, OPEC decided to stay with its existing supply targets. (Reuters)

March 24 Since September, the number of U.S. rigs drilling for oil and natural gas has dropped almost 50 percent
1,085 rigs, the quickest decline since 1986, according to data from oil services company Baker Hughes. (Reuters)

April 2009
April 2 Mexico’s finance ministry expects the country's crude oil exports to drop to 1.125 million barrels per day in 201
from 1.370 million barrels per day forecast for this year. The giant Cantarell oil field has lost nearly two-thirds of
production capacity since peaking at over 2 million barrels per day in 2004. (Reuters)

April 15 U.S. oil and natural gas drilling activity dropped to 2004 levels in the first quarter, the American Petroleu
Institute said. The U.S. rig count has been declining from last fall's high of 2,031 rigs and is now less than half that
1,005, according to the most recent report by Houston-based oil field services company Baker Hughes. (Housto
Chronicle)

May 2009
May 22 The number of oil and natural gas rigs operating in the U.S. fell to its lowest level since February 2003 this wee
according to data published by Baker Hughes Inc. Rigs exploring for or producing oil or gas declined to 900, a 55 perce
drop from 1,992 on November 7, 2008. (Bloomberg)

May 28 OPEC decided to keep its production quotas unchanged at its meeting in Vienna, banking on a recovery in
demand toward the end of the year. Oil futures in New York have gained 42 percent this year to more than $63 a barr
on speculation that demand will revive as the global economy starts to recover. (Bloomberg)

June 2009
June 12 China processed a record volume of crude oil in May as increased factory output, higher agricultur
consumption, and a jump in car sales boosted demand for fuel. The increase in fuel consumption lifted net crude impor
to a 14-month high in May. Industrial production expanded 8.9 percent last month, boosting fuel use and adding to sign

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China is recovering from its worst slump in almost a decade. (Bloomberg)

July 2009
July 31 Iraq, holder of the world’s third-largest crude reserves, said it boosted oil exports to the highest level since th
2003 U.S.-led invasion during the month of July. An average of 2.037 million barrels of crude per day was exported out
a total production of about 2.5 million barrels a day, according to an Oil Ministry spokesman. (Bloomberg)

August - September 2009


September 2 British Petroleum reported a “giant” discovery at the Tiber Prospect in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico that ma
contain more than 3 billion barrels. The well is located about 250 miles southeast of Houston at a total depth
approximately 35,055 feet, greater than the height of Mount Everest. The latest discovery will help BP, already th
biggest producer in the Gulf of Mexico, boost output in the region by 50 percent to 600,000 barrels of oil equivalent a da
beyond 2020. (Bloomberg)

September 9 The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), meeting in Vienna, said it will keep
production quotas unchanged, banking on a recovery in the world economy to maintain prices. OPEC agreed to mainta
total production quotas at 24.845 million barrels a day and will urge members to adhere to targets. (Bloomberg)

October 2009
October 2 Russia’s Energy Ministry reported that total petroleum production averaged 10 million barrels per day for th
first time at the end of the 3rd quarter. The start-up of Rosneft’s Vankor field recently was the main contributor to Russia
growth in oil production. (Nefte Compass)

November 2009
November 9-12 On 11/9, offshore oil and gas operators in the Gulf of Mexico began evacuating platforms and rigs in th
path of Tropical Storm Ida. Shut-in production peaked on November 10, when 560,000 bbl/d (43% of offshore
production) and 27.5 percent of gas output from the Gulf of Mexico were shut down as a precautionary measure, the U.
Minerals Management Service said. By November 12, almost all of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and ga
production disrupted by tropical storm Ida has been restored. (U.S. Minerals Management Service)

November 13 The number of oil rigs operating in the U.S. this week jumped 8.7 percent to the highest this yea
according to data published by Baker Hughes Inc. Oil rigs gained 29 to 361, the largest number of rigs added since No
7, 2008, the same week the count peaked at 442, Baker Hughes said today. Natural gas rigs declined by 6, pulling th
overall U.S. oil and gas rig count up 23, or 2.1 percent, to 1,101, the highest since March. Oil rigs have increased for
consecutive weeks as futures prices traded near the year’s highs. (Bloomberg)

December 2009
December 2 Russia set a fourth consecutive monthly record for total petroleum liquids output in November to retain
position ahead of Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer. Russia produced 10.1 million bbl/d, as more crud
emerged from the new Arctic field of Vankor, run by state-controlled Rosneft, according to Energy Ministry data. (EI
Reuters)

December 22 The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to keep production targets unchanged at the
meeting today in Luanda, Angola. OPEC maintained total production quotas at 24.845 million barrels a day. (Bloomberg

December 27 The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) has reached its current capacity, holding nearly 727 millio
barrels of crude oil, Energy Department data show.The SPR was set up in 1975 under an International Energy Agen
plan to create a buffer against price shocks caused by supply shortages. The U.S., like other major industrial nations
the IEA, aims to have on hand in commercial and government-owned storage enough oil to cover 90 days of net import
(Dow Jones)

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Lloyd’s List
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Reuters
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