Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum, with Pearl Petroleum partners, signed long-term gas sales agreements to supply clean natural gas from the Chemchemal field to industrial users in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region. Cement and steel customers will buy up to 142 MMscf/d for 10 years starting 2027.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) says rising LNG supply will help rebalance global gas markets in 2026, boosting demand growth after a 2025 slowdown. Tight supplies and high prices curbed consumption earlier, especially in Asia, before easing as LNG production rose nearly 7 per cent.
Qatar said the European Union’s (EU) push to ease some regulatory burdens is opening the door to further gas deals with companies in the region. Qatar plans to expand export capacity to 142 million tonnes per year by 2030 and has signed deals with Germany and France as Europeans seek to diversify their LNG sources.
Egypt’s Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources announced promising production results following the completion of drilling two new wells in the Western Desert, with initial tests showing a combined natural flow of about 1,650 barrels of crude oil and 19 million cubic feet of gas per day.
Adnoc Gas, a major unit of Abu National Oil Company (Adnoc) and its subsidiaries announced the signing of a sales and purchase agreement valued at between $2.5 billion - $3 billion for a period of 10 years with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL).
Azerbaijan’s state energy company SOCAR has reached a new milestone in gas exports by selling significant volumes of gas to Southern and Central Europe via the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), part of the Southern Gas Corridor. From January 2026, Azerbaijani gas will be supplied to buyers in Austria and Germany through Italy.
Egypt’s Ministry of Petroleum said oil and gas companies drilled multiple wells across the Western and Eastern Deserts and the Nile Delta, including five exploratory wells, expected to add about 47 million cubic feet of gas and 4,300 barrels per day to daily output.
