Russia rose to become India’s second biggest supplier of oil in May, pushing Saudi Arabia into third place but still behind Iraq which remains No. 1, data from trade sources showed. In May Indian refiners received about 819,000 barrels per day (bpd) Russian oil, the highest thus far in any …

Turkey is lowering into the sea the first pipe that will deliver natural gas from the Sakarya field in the Black Sea to the land, Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Donmez said. Turkey will invest almost $10 billion in the project to produce and transport 540 billion cubic …

European natural gas prices declined on Monday as muted demand helped to ease a tight market. Warm weather across the region is expected to keep a lid on gas use for heating over the coming week, while a forecast for increased solar energy production in the UK, Germany and Spain …

Iran has delivered an Iranian-made ‘Aframax’ oil tanker to Venezuela, which has been built at the order of Venezuela, Trend reports citing the government’s official website (dolat.ir). In this regard, an event was held in Tehran with the participation of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. An …

Equinor and BP announced last week the launch of the New York-based Offshore Wind Innovation Hub, which will facilitate partnerships with start-ups that bring new technological solutions to the rapidly growing US offshore wind industry. The initiative springs from a new three-year partnership between Equinor, the Urban Future Lab (UFL) …

The International Atomic Energy Agency on Sunday urged Iran to resume talks to revive the 2015 nuclear accord. The International Atomic Energy Agency chief in an interview broadcast Sunday by CNN urged Iran to resume talks “now” to avoid a crisis that could make it “extremely more difficult” to salvage …

At the end of 2021, authorities in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi fined one of China’s biggest coal companies for illegally mining at more than 50 sites. Jinneng Holding Shanxi Coal Industry had flouted strict production limits, introduced following a series of mining accidents across the country. In one …

Saudi Arabia will provide some Chinese buyers with less crude than they asked for next month, while fulfilling requests from many other customers in Asia after OPEC+ pledged to speed up production hikes. Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and India will get the oil volumes they had sought, with some even …

French oil company TotalEnergies was awarded a 25 per cent stake to develop the world’s largest natural gasfield in Qatar as the Gulf state aims to increase its production and respond to higher global demand for LNG. State-owned QatarEnergy will hold the remaining 75 per cent stake in the North …

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has ruled out the prospect of a Russian gas ban in the European Union’s next package of sanctions, calling it “impossible”. Landlocked Hungary is overwhelmingly dependent on Russian hydrocarbons. Szijjarto’s comments come as Russian President Vladimir Putin says he believes the West will not be …