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MOSCOW, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Russia's top oil producer Rosneft and Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA signed an agreement to set up a joint venture to develop natural gas in the South American country, Rosneft said on Saturday.

DUBAI, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Iran aims to increase its oil production by 700,000 barrels per day in the near future, the deputy oil minister said on Saturday.

LA PAZ, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Repsol SA discovered 4 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of possible natural gas reserves in Bolivia that it will start tapping in 2019, the government and company said Friday - a finding that could boost the Andean country's reserves by 40 percent.

SAO PAULO, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Sete Brasil Participações SA plans to file for bankruptcy protection if state-controlled oil producer Petróleo Brasileiro SA, the rig builder's sole client, fails to present a final lease contract proposal in a week's time, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday.

SCRANTON, Pa., Feb 19 (Reuters) - A federal judge ruled on Friday that a Pennsylvania family that runs a maple syrup business cannot stop most of their trees from being cut down to make way for a shale gas pipeline, but he stopped short of charging them with contempt of court.

CARACAS, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Venezuela is sending new proposals to leaders of OPEC and non-OPEC countries to stabilize the oil market, President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised broadcast on Friday afternoon, without providing details.

SAO PAULO, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Shareholders of Sete Brasil Participações SA may file for bankruptcy protection if Brazilian state-controlled oil producer Petróleo Brasileiro SA, the rig builder's sole client, fails to present a final long-term lease contract in a week's time, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday.

CARACAS, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia, Russia, Qatar and Venezuela will monitor the oil market through to June following this week's agreement to freeze production and potentially take additional measures to rescue prices, the South American country's oil minister said on Friday afternoon. (Reporting by Alexandra Ulmer; Editing by Marguerita Choy)

BOSTON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - U.S. ratings agency Standard & Poor's warned on Friday it may cut the credit rating of billionaire investor Carl Icahn's Icahn Enterprises to junk status after the portfolio absorbed heavy commodity sector losses in the last few months.

Platts editors discuss the European Commission's new EU gas supply security package in the light of flat gas demand, well supplied markets and continued tense relations with Russia.

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