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Oil prices will jump to $300 a barrel if the West abandons Russian oil, the country’s Deputy Prime Minister and former Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Monday, adding that “some see it possibly reaching $500 a barrel”. The warning comes as the EU plans to discuss placing an embargo …

Russia has threatened to close a major gas pipeline to Germany and warned of $300 oil prices if the West goes ahead with a ban on its energy exports. “It is absolutely clear that a rejection of Russian oil would lead to catastrophic consequences for the global market,” Russian Deputy …

The EU is to blame for its energy crisis, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said Saturday. A global gas supply crunch has sent consumer bills soaring across Europe, fueling inflation and accusations, most recently by International Energy Agency boss Fatih Birol, that Moscow is exacerbating the problem by withholding …

The OPEC+ group will likely proceed with its oil production policy of the past few months by deciding next week to add another 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) to its collective output quota, OPEC+ and Russian sources told Reuters this week. OPEC and its Russia-led non-OPEC partners in the OPEC+ …

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said oil prices are expected not to change significantly in 2022, and demand would recover to pre-COVID-19 levels in late 2022, Reuters reported. Mosco plans to produce 540-550 million tons of oil in 2022, Novak said. He added that oil market has not yet …

OPEC+ has postponed its Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) meeting in order to assess the new Omicron strain of COVID-19, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Monday. Originally scheduled for Nov. 30, the JMMC online meeting will now be held on Dec. 2, the same day as the …

Russia will perform its commitments within the OPEC+ oil production limiting agreement’s framework by about 100% in July, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told reporters on Friday. “It will be about 100%. We actually have no strong volatility in this aspect, approximately at the same level on a monthly basis. …

Telephone contacts between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leadership of Saudi Arabia before the OPEC+ meeting are not planned, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. “They are not planned yet,” he said. Answering a question about whether there are any contradictions in the positions of Moscow and …

The return of Iranian oil to the world market needs to be taken into account, but first, there has to be an understanding of the exact schedule and volume limits, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told Sputnik. “Of course, this must be taken into account. Because it affects the …

It is currently impossible to suspend investment in new oil production projects as the price will otherwise reach $200 per barrel, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Thursday. “I cannot imagine a situation, for example, where investments in new projects are suspended …