US crude oil production during November 2015 totaled 9.32 million b/d, a decline of less than a percent from the October total but still up 1.3% compared with the November 2014 total, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration mostly based on data from its EIA-914 survey.

Jay Graham, former co-chief executive officer of WildHorse Resources II, has been named chief executive officer and director of Memorial Resource Development Corp., Houston.

California’s two US senators—Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein—said that they will introduce an amendment next week to wide-ranging energy legislation currently on the Senate floor. It would direct US Energy Sec. Ernest G. Moniz to lead a broad federal review of the cause and the response to a leak at Southern California Gas Co.’s Aliso Canyon storage facility near Los Angeles, the two Democrats said on Jan. 29.

With oil-directed rigs representing two thirds of the decline, the US drilling rig count fell 18 units to 619 during the week ended Jan. 29, the latest Baker Hughes Inc. data show.

Public-sector refining firms Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. (IOCL), Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (BPCL), and Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (HPCL) are planning a joint investment for construction of a grassroots megarefinery to be built along the coast of India’s Maharashtra state.

North American exploration and production companies enter a year of commodity-price weakness with just 15% of their total production hedged, reports IHS Energy.