The US Bureau of Land Management’s Utah Canyon Country District is seeking public comments on an environmental assessment it prepared for its plan to offer 6,741 acres of southeastern Utah land it administers at a February 2017 oil and gas lease sale. Source: News

Jones Energy Inc., Austin, has closed on its acquisition of 18,000 net acres in the Oklahoma STACK-SCOOP play from Scoop Energy Co. LLC, a platform company of American Energy Partners LP., for $136.5 million. Source: News

Just 27% of US oil and gas firms plan to freeze salaries in 2017 compared with more than half of those firms doing so in 2016, according to a survey from Aon Hewitt, a provider of human capital and management consulting services. Source: News

Karoon Gas Australia Ltd. of Melbourne has made a binding sale and purchase agreement for the acquisition of partner Pacific Exploration & Production Corp.’s 35% interest in five Santos basin blocks offshore Brazil. Source: News

US commercial crude oil inventories, excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, decreased 1.9 million bbl during the week ended Sept. 23 from the previous week’s total to 502.7 million bbl, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s Petroleum Status Report. Source: News

Crude oil prices fell by more than $1/bbl on Sept. 27 on both New York and London markets awaiting Sept. 28 informal talks by members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and ahead of a possible decline in the weekly US oil inventory. Source: News