China's National Commission for Disaster Reduction and the Ministry of Emergency Management have activated a national level-4 disaster emergency response, allocated central relief supplies and are guiding and supporting Henan's heavy-rain and flood relief operations.

XRG, the investment arm of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, said on Thursday it has been awarded a development licence for the Loran gas field in the Caribbean, which straddles the Venezuela–Trinidad and Tobago boundary. XRG will hold the licence jointly with BP and Qatar’s UCC to develop more than 4 tcf of gas. The gas is slated to supplement Trinidad’s industrial feedstock, including supply to the Atlantic LNG complex operated by Shell and BP, and to petrochemical and fertilizer plants that have faced multi-year gas rationing.

Saudi Arabia appointed its energy minister as head of the procurement bureau.