Qatargas CEO: The company will sign the largest number of long-term LNG purchase and sale contracts this year.

Artificial intelligence startup Alphasense raises funding at $2.5 billion valuation.

Market news: U.S. Secretary of State Blinken and members of Congress including U.S. Senator Menendez held talks on selling F-16 fighter jets to Turkey.

Sources: Pemex will lose about 100,000 barrels per day of crude oil this month after the fire at its drilling rig, and the cumulative production loss will exceed 2 million barrels.

According to Ukrainian Pravda: NATO believes that the fate of Crimea may be decided through diplomatic channels, but so far has not seen evidence that Russia is ready to negotiate.

Daimler Trucks CEO: The company is considering building an electric vehicle battery factory in the United States.

ADNOC, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company of the United Arab Emirates: set the price of Das crude oil in August at a discount of US$0.7 per barrel to Murban crude oil; set the price of UPPER ZAKUM crude oil in August at a discount to Murban crude oil 0.6 US dollars / barrel; set the price of UMM LULU crude oil in August at a premium of 0.15 US dollars / barrel to Murban crude oil.

ADNOC, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company of the United Arab Emirates: set the price of Murban crude oil in August at US$75.61 per barrel.

Iraqi Prime Minister: Iran agrees to resume natural gas exports to Iraq after halting them due to delayed payments.

Iraqi Prime Minister: Iraq will trade crude oil for Iranian gas to overcome US restrictions on payments to Iran.

[Peskov: Russia will continue to discuss the Russia-Ukraine situation with the African peace delegation] On the 11th local time, Russian President’s Press Secretary Peskov stated that Russia will continue to discuss with African countries their proposals for a peaceful solution to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. plan. Peskov said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown a strong interest in the peace plan. The previous talks in St. Petersburg were very constructive, and the discussions between the two sides will continue in the future. On June 17, a peace delegation composed of leaders and special envoys from South Africa and other African countries visited St. Petersburg, Russia, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and proposed a ten-point peace plan for resolving the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

OpenAI: ChatGPT logins are fully restored, and session error rates and latencies have returned to normal.

The Fed accepted a total of $1.776 trillion from 101 counterparties in fixed-rate reverse repurchase operations.

Market news: The U.S. Senate panel submitted a $886 billion defense bill.

The governments of Canada and Alberta invested more than $96 million to provide high-speed Internet access to more than 10,000 homes.

Hewlett-Packard (HPQ.N) rose 5.31 percent after Canalys reported that the decline in PC shipments slowed in the second quarter.

According to CNBC: Microsoft proposed a small asset divestiture to meet the opposition of the British Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to the acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

According to Russia Today: The communique shows that NATO countries intend to increase their troops in eastern Europe.