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China will greatly increase domestic energy supply capacity and its reserve capacity for key commodities, government officials said on Monday, reiterating a policy of ensuring supplies and stabilising prices of raw materials. The world’s top energy consumer will enhance a “diversified domestic supply base” centred on coal while accelerating development …

Half of German companies have recently been unable to realize their investment plans, which they intended to do, due to the energy crisis, and 39% of them were forced to completely withdraw from some markets. According to the Welt am Sonntag newspaper, these figures were revealed as a result of …

Union Petroleum and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep S Puri on Friday assured that the Indian petroleum industry was at the cusp of opportunity and will be able to produce 25 per cent of its crude oil demand by 2030. Interacting with the media at the inaugural event of the South …

European countries are buying gas at sky-high prices and scrambling to curb energy use to avoid fuel shortages this winter, but early weather forecasts point to the risk of a cold snap that could temporarily hike demand. Surging European gas and power prices as the result of reduced Russian supplies …

Any attack on the TurkStream gas pipeline will be an act of terrorism, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday. Speaking to state media, Orban said Budapest will “respond accordingly” if there is any attack on the pipeline, which carries gas from Russia to Türkiye and further to European …

Qatar is interested in joining French firm TotalEnergies and Italy’s Eni in exploring for oil in two areas in Lebanese waters, the Lebanese energy minister said on Friday. Qatar wants to join the consortium to explore for oil in blocks 4 and 9 in the Eastern Mediterranean, Walid Fayad said …

Falling crude oil prices and declining oil exports resulted in a $3.2-billion drop in Russia’s oil revenues to $15.3 billion for September, the lowest monthly oil export revenue for Moscow this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday. Total crude oil and oil product exports out of Russia …

Some Biden administration officials are growing concerned that their plan to cap the price of oil purchased from Russia may backfire after the OPEC+ alliance’s surprise production cut last week, according to people familiar with the matter. The plan seeks to keep enough Russian supplies on the global market to …

OPEC on Wednesday cut its 2022 forecast for growth in world oil demand for a fourth time since April and also trimmed next year’s figure, citing slowing economies, the resurgence of China’s COVID-19 containment measures and high inflation. Oil demand will increase by 2.64 million barrels per day (bpd) or …

Saudi Arabia rejected statements criticising the Kingdom as “not based on facts”, after last week’s OPEC+ decision to cut its oil production target despite US objections, saying it served the interests of both consumers and producers. This decision was adopted through consensus, took into account the balance of supply and …