发改委网站2019年04月01日报道，财政部、税务总局、海关总署联合印发《关于深化增值税改革有关政策的公告》，决定自4月1日起降低部分行业增值税率。根据公告，成品油增值税率由16%降低至13%。据此，国内汽、柴油最高零售价格每吨分别降低225元和200元，自2019年3月31日24时起执行。中石油、中石化、中海油三大公司要组织好成品油生产和调运，确保市场稳定供应，严格执行国家价格政策。各地相关部门要加大市场监督检查力度，严厉查处不执行国家价格政策的行为，维护正常市场秩序。

中化新网2019年03月18日报道，国务院印发《关于取消和下放一批行政许可事项的决定》(国发〔2019〕6号)，取消“石油天然气(含煤层气)对外合作项目总体开发方案审批”事项，改为备案。油气对外合作项目总体开发方案由审批改备案后，油气田总体开发方案仅需按《企业投资项目核准和备案管理办法》要求在网上填报必要信息，所用时间和审批相比，将有较大幅度缩短。

国家能源局网站2019年03月04日报道，国家能源局对《石油天然气规划管理办法》（国能发油气〔2017〕24号）进行了修订，并印发《石油天然气规划管理办法》（2019年修订）（以下简称《办法》）。《办法》指出，规划编制要落实能源生产和消费革命，贯彻油气体制改革、天然气产供储销体系建设、大力提升油气勘探开发力度等工作要求，明确指导思想、基本原则、发展目标、重点任务、产业布局、重大工程，加强科技创新，强化政策支持和措施保障，保障国家能源安全，服务能源结构转型。

《上海证券报》2019年02月26日报道，国家能源局综合司日前已下发征求对《关于促进生物天然气产业化发展的指导意见》(简称《指导意见》)的意见函。《指导意见》指出,当前生物天然气处于发展初期,面临着技术不成熟、产业体系不健全、政策支持力度不够等问题,急需强化支持、完善政策,加快生物天然气产业化发展步伐。为此，《指导意见》提出四个发展阶段。

油田服务行业从根本上依赖于石油和天然气资源、受经济周期影响，市场需求随油气价格波动，油服企业收入呈现季节性波动；我国油服行业行政垄断逐步打破、市场化程度越来越高、民营资本日益活跃。我国已成为世界最大的油气市场之一，对外依存度高，大力开发油田是战略需要，油服行业大有可为。

2019年1-2月份，全国固定资产投资（不含农户）44849亿元，同比增长6.1%，增速比2018年全年提高0.2个百分点。从环比速度看，2月份固定资产投资（不含农户）增长0.43%。其中，民间固定资产投资26963亿元，同比增长7.5%。

China’s oil and gas sector has been dominated by three state-owned enterprise groups – China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group) and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) – for decades. The three majors, all engaging in oil and gas production, have predominant positions in different subsegments, with CNPC mainly focusing on onshore exploration and extraction, Sinopec Group excelling at refining and petrochemicals, and CNOOC in charge of offshore oil and gas assets. In response to the government’s call for SOE reform in the 1990s, the three giants established their own listed arms, restructured business units for better asset integration, and introduced market entities to participate in oil field management. The Chinese government has also encouraged independent domestic players as well as foreign companies to enter the sector.

A home to 7.5% of the world’s oil reserves and 7.1% of the global natural gas reserves, Africa is an important player in the hydrocarbon industry. The continent’s share in global oil production stood at 8.7% in 2017, slightly up from 8.4% in the previous year. Africa’s contribution to the global natural gas production was smaller, with the continent accounting for a share of 6.1% in 2017, up from 5.8% in 2016. After declining for four straight years, Africa’s crude oil production increased by 5% y/y to 8,072 mbbl/d in 2017, according to data published in the 2018 edition of BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The annual growth was the strongest among all oil producing regions and well above the global oil production increase of just 0.7% y/y. The major contributors were Nigeria and Libya, which were the only ones among Africa’s top five oil producers to register higher production than in 2016. The others witnessed a decline, mostly in line with production cuts agreed to by OPEC members. Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer, registered a 4.5% rise in production to 1,988 mbbl/d in 2017. Libya more than doubled oil supply to 865 mbbl/d, helping it become Africa’s fourth largest oil producer in 2017, moving Egypt to the fifth position. Tunisia experienced the steepest drop of 11.8% y/y, pumping 53 mbbl/d of crude oil in 2017. South Sudan witnessed another decline in oil production in 2017 but as the country emerged from a five-year civil war with the peace deal agreed in August 2018, prospects for the oil sector look encouraging.