Energy stocks were advancing premarket Monday, with the State Street Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLE) 0.7% higher.
The United States Oil Fund (USO) was up 1.9% and the United States Natural Gas Fund (UNG) was 2.8% lower.
Front-month US West Texas Intermediate crude oil was 1.3% higher at $91.69 per barrel at the New York Mercantile Exchange. Global benchmark North Sea Brent crude oil rose 1.7% to $94.68 per barrel, and natural gas futures were down 3.1% at $3.13 per 1 million British Thermal Units.
Eni (E) and Petronas have launched a new 50/50 joint venture called Searah that will combine businesses across Indonesia and Malaysia, the companies said. Shares of Eni were up more than 1% pre-bell.
Devon Energy (DVN) stock was up more than 1% after the company said between 66% and 98% of notes across seven bond series were tendered early to its exchange offers.
SLB (SLB) said its OneSubsea joint venture won a contract from BP (BP) to provide a subsea boosting system for the Thunder Horse development in the Gulf of America. SLB shares were 0.5% higher premarket.