July 27 (Reuters) - Asian spot liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices rose this week as a heatwave gripped Japan and high temperatures swept across South Korea and parts of China boosting cooling demand though relief is set to come from new Russian supplies.

July 27 (Reuters) - U.S. independent oil refiner Phillips 66's quarterly profit topped analysts' estimates on Friday as cheaper crude prices boosted refining margins by more than 45 percent.

Oil prices fell, weighed down by a drop in the US equities market.

NEW YORK, July 27 (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Friday, weighed down by a drop in the U.S.

Senyo Fialor, a Petroleum, Energy Economics and Finance MSc student at the University of Aberdeen, recalls his first job in the oil industry.

I worked for Baker Hughes, a GE Company, for four and a half years.

KCA Deutag reaches an agreement with SOCAR AQS to form a joint venture.

KCA Deutag announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement with SOCAR AQS to form a joint venture.

The increasing scale and repetition of labor strikes in the North Sea raises operational risks, BMI Research says.

The increasing scale and repetition of labor strikes in the North Sea raises operational risks to both the timelines of new project developments and to the longer-term investment attractiveness of operations in the region.

PwC's latest quarterly report reveals that downstream and midstream dominated the second quarter in terms of deal value.

Second quarter deal value for 2018 was higher than it’s been in six quarters and the highest second quarter deal value in history, according to PwC’s quarterly U.S.