Today's topics include:

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• According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the Texas oil sector continues contracting amid ‘challenging’ conditions;
  
• Trump’s sanctions have led Allseas to halt its work on Putin’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline;
  
• ExxonMobil and its partners have made another major oil discovery in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana;
  
• Apache and Total have formed a joint venture to explore offshore Suriname;
  
• Analysts see few surprises in 2020 as OPEC+ cuts trim the global oil surplus.