Bahrain�s Oil Minister Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa said that Bahrain is preparing to extract deep gas by the end of this year.

The National Audit Office report for the years 2016-2017 revealed that the Oil and Gas Holding Company did not pay 56.4 billion BD of due state returns in 2016.

Qatar will not cut off gas to the United Arab Emirates despite a diplomatic dispute and a "force majeure" clause in its contract, the chief executive of Qatar Petroleum told Al Jazeera network, two weeks after some Gulf Arab states severed ties with Doha.