Gazprom PJSC’s daily natural-gas sales to key foreign markets slipped to the lowest in three months in April as customers turned to cheaper supplies on the spot market amid mild weather and a wave of LNG. Europe has been importing record amounts of discounted liquefied natural gas on the back …
Read More »Gazprom 2021 Annual Earnings Hit Record on Gas Price Rally
Russia’s gas giant Gazprom PJSC reported its highest-ever annual income for 2021, when natural gas prices soared during Europe’s worst energy crunch in decades. The producer benefited from a surge in gas prices as Europe, its largest export market, faced a severe energy deficit due to post-Covid recovery allied to …
Read More »Gazprom Continues Gas Exports to Europe
Russian state-owned gas producer Gazprom continued to supply natural gas to Europe via Ukraine on Saturday at the pace of 74.6 million cubic metres per day, in accordance with requests from European consumers, the company said. This was in line with the 74.5 mcm reported earlier by Interfax news agency, …
Read More »Russia’s Gazprom Continues Gas Exports to Europe via Ukraine
Russian state-owned gas producer Gazprom continued to supply natural gas to Europe via Ukraine on Friday in line with requests from European consumers, the company said. Requests stood at 71.6 million cubic metres for Friday, down from 81.1 million cubic metres on Thursday.
Read More »Europe’s Gas Prices Jump as Ukraine Transit Demand Drops
After more than a week of consecutive declines, Europe’s benchmark natural gas prices rose on Tuesday amid lower orders for Russian gas supply transiting Ukraine. In morning trade in Amsterdam on Tuesday, the front-month gas futures price at the Dutch TTF hub, the benchmark gas price for Europe, was up …
Read More »Hungary Escalates Spat with EU over Paying for Russian Gas
Hungary can pay for Russian natural gas without violating European Union sanctions against Russia, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in a Facebook post in response to a warning from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Earlier this week Premier Viktor Orban said Hungary was ready to pay for Russian …
Read More »EU Countries Seek Solidarity Fix to Urgently Fill Gas Storage
European Union countries are wrangling over how to rapidly fill their gas storage ahead of next winter and share the burden of quickly buying large stocks at current sky-high prices. Europe is facing a race to build a buffer of stored gas ahead of winter, to help cope with potential …
Read More »German Regulator Takes over Gazprom Germania to Ensure Energy Supply
Gazprom Germania, an energy trading, storage and transmission business under Russia’s natural gas giant Gazprom, will be transferred to Germany’s regulator to ensure energy security, Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Monday. All voting rights in the company will be transferred to the regulator, the Bundesnetzagentur, Habeck told a news …
Read More »Oil Prices Set to Open after Largest Weekly Fall in Two Years
Oil futures were set to open for Asian trade on Sunday, after both Brent and US crude benchmarks posted their biggest weekly falls in two years last week as the United States announced the largest ever release from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Both contracts settled down around 13 per …
Read More »Russia and West at Odds over Gas Payments in Roubles
Russia said on Monday it will not supply gas to Europe for free as it works out methods for accepting payments for its gas exports in roubles but G7 nations refused the demand. At a meeting of European Union leaders on Friday, no common position emerged on Russia’s demand last …
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