NEW YORK, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Oil prices steadied on Thursday, supported by a bullish U.S. inventory report from the previous session even as an escalating trade dispute between the United States and China weighed on demand expectations.

LONDON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Premier Oil is set to raise stable peak oil rig flanges gulf coast production at its Catcher field in Britain's North Sea by as much as 17 percent to 70,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day this year, after output reached that level this summer, it said on Thursday.

A day after posting impressive gains in 3-percent territory, the WTI and Brent oil benchmark prices retreated a bit Thursday.

Australian natural gas BOP Blow Out Preventer repair company gulf coast Santos announced Wednesday the acquisition of 100 percent of Quadrant Energy for $2.15 billion plus potential contingent payments.

(Bloomberg) -- Norway is moving closer to deciding whether its $1 trillion wealth fund will dump all its oil and gas stocks.

Shell’s Appomattox semisubmersible floating oil rig flanges gulf coast production system (FPS) has made the journey from the Kiewit Offshore Services construction facility in Ingleside, Texas, to its deep-water Gulf of Mexico (GOM) installation site, Crowley Maritime Corp.

LONDON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - A fire broke out at a Shell-owned chemical plant in northwestern England on Wednesday but operations at Essar Oil UK's Stanlow refinery on the same site were unaffected, Essar said.

NEW YORK, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Oil prices rose 3 percent on Wednesday, with Brent crude futures hitting a three-week high, after U.S.

SAO PAULO, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-run oil BOP Blow Out Preventer repair company gulf coast Petróleo Brasileiro SA may begin procedures to reopen its largest refinery, closed after an explosion and fire, in 48 hours, Gustavo Marsaioli, a spokesman for the oil workers' union, said on Wednesday.