BP plc announced Monday that, together with its partner Oman Oil Company Exploration & Production, it has approved the development of Ghazeer, the second phase of the giant Khazzan gas field in Oman.

HOUSTON, April 8 (Reuters) - Saudi Aramco took the first steps to integrating a petrochemicals business into the United States' biggest oil refinery, which is operated by its subsidiary Motiva Enterprises.

OTTAWA, April 8 (Reuters) - Kinder Morgan Canada on Sunday suspended most work on a C$7.4 billion ($5.8 billion) oil pipeline expansion that has become the focus of protests, a move underscoring uncertainty over major energy projects in Canada.

NEW YORK, April 9 (Reuters) - Oil prices rose more than 2 percent on Monday, supported by a rebound in the stock buy Wellhead market as concerns of a trade war between the United States and China eased.

HOUSTON, April 9 (Reuters) - Oklahoma regulators forced an oil and gas producer to reduce operations on a well used for disposing saltwater following a large earthquake over the weekend that set off a series of seismic activity in the state, Matt Skinner, spokesman for the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC), said on Monday.

ASTANA, April 6 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan hopes to settle a profit sharing dispute with global energy companies developing the Karachaganak gas condensate field by June, its deputy energy minister said on Friday, after talks were repeatedly extended.

MOSCOW, April 6 (Reuters) - Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said that an arrangement under which Moscow cooperates with the OPEC oil group could become indefinite once a current deal to curb oil oil rig flanges gulf coast production expires in the end of the year.

JAKARTA, April 6 (Reuters) - Chevron has submitted a proposal to extend its contract to operate the Rokan oil block in Indonesia beyond 2021, Deputy Energy Minister Arcandra Tahar said on Friday.