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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday urged urgent action to ensure the security of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant which is currently under Russian control. Following a meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Zelenskyy said on Telegram that particular attention was paid to …

Crude oil inventories in the United States dropped by 21.8 million barrels to 915.8 million barrels in June, which was the lowest level since 2004, the latest data from the Joint Organisations Data Initiative (JODI) showed on Wednesday. Product inventories, on the other hand, rose by 34.1 million barrels to …

Japanese gas and electric utilities with long-term contracts to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Sakhalin-2 project in Russia have received a new contract offer from the newly-formed Russian operator, some companies said on Wednesday. The Russian entity was registered on Aug. 5 to replace the project operator Sakhalin …

Iraq is planning to increase its crude oil production to phased targets of 5 to 8 million barrels per day (bpd) over time, according to the first vice president of the Iraq National Oil Company (INOC), Hamid Younis, last week. The director general of the Iraq Oil Exploration Company (IOEC), …

Europe is hoping the new gas levy Germany is introducing for all gas consumers not have “unintended consequences”. It is hoped that this new tax will allow the country to offset the rising cost of gas imports caused by the reduced Russian gas flows through Nord Stream 1 pipeline. Germany …

Temperatures might be soaring across Germany but staying warm this winter without Russian gas — which until the start of the war supplied over 50% of annual demand — is already a pressing concern. Plans to make up the shortfall, if Russian supplies run dry, are already in place: Higher …

Russian oil production fell in the first weeks of August, ending several months of recovery from Western sanctions imposed over Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Kommersant business daily reported Monday. Average daily production so far this month has fallen by 3% compared to July, totaling 1.428 million tons, the publication …

The forecast for global crude oil demand was raised by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and lowered by OPEC in reports last week, but the apparent differing views actually masked an increasing convergence between the consumer and producer groups. The market take on last week’s separate reports was largely that …

Russia defied expectations of a collapse in oil production following its invasion of Ukraine. But Moscow will have to redouble its efforts to find new buyers if it’s to keep output from shrinking in the coming months. After plunging in the immediate aftermath of its offensive in February, Russian production …

Oil giant Saudi Aramco on Sunday unveiled record profits of $48.4 billion in the second quarter of 2022, after Russia’s war in Ukraine and a post-pandemic surge in demand sent crude prices soaring. Net income leapt 90 percent year-on-year for the world’s biggest oil producer, which clocked its second straight …