RN-Vankor, an enterprise of the Rosneft Oil Company production complex, has discovered a new field on the border of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. Recoverable reserves of the Novoognennoye field were registered in the State Reserve Register at more than 20 mln tonnes of oil and about …
Read More »Russia Loses Its Chance to Capture the EU Gas Market
While the whole world was shocked by negative West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil prices due to the shortage of demand during the Covid-19 lockdown, the gas market hasn’t seen any dramatic changes. According to Rystad Energy, gas use for industrial consumption is set to decline five per cent, for commercial …
Read More »Rosneft Cut Debt, Taking Situation on Forex Market into Account
Rosneft, which has the largest share of ruble-denominated debt among Russian exporters, has optimized its debt portfolio due to changes in the foreign exchange market, Andrei Baranov, the director of Rosneft’s investor relations department, said on Friday during a phone conference. “Rosneft has a balanced debt portfolio, 50 percent of …
Read More »Russian Oil Output Falls Near to OPEC+ Target
Russia’s oil output in the first five days of May fell to 8.75 million barrels per day (bpd), close to its production target of 8.5 million bpd for May and June under a global deal to cut crude supplies, two sources familiar with the data told Reuters. Together with gas …
Read More »Rosneft Sells Venezuelan Assets to Russia after U.S. Sanctions Ramp Up
The impact of the move, announced at a time when oil prices are languishing at around $25 per barrel, on Rosneft’s upstream joint ventures with Venezuelan state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela was not immediately clear. The U.S. government has ramped up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government, including …
Read More »Scientists of Rosneft and Russian Arctic National Park Discover Microorganisms able to Clean Soil from Oil Pollution
Within the scope of Clean Arctic complex joint project, experts of Rosneft and Russian Arctic National Park discovered bacteria that can be used as a basis for development of an innovative agent for cleaning soils from petroleum-based products. Scientists uncovered the promising microorganisms during the acquisition of samples of polluted …
Read More »Russia’s Oil Producers Told by Ministry to Cut Output by Fifth
Russia’s oil producers have been told by the Energy Ministry to cut their production by about a fifth to comply with the new OPEC+ deal starting May 1, said two people with knowledge of the matter. After days of consultations on how to divide the supply curbs, companies were instructed …
Read More »Russian Oil Companies Squabble over New OPEC Deal
OPEC countries reached a landmark deal to diminish oil output starting from May 1, 2020. On April 12, members of OPEC and their allies, including Russia, announced that they had agreed to cut production by 9.7 million barrels a day in May and June 2020. After that, the group will …
Read More »Rosneft Sale of Venezuelan Assets under Active Deliberation by US
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is engaged in an “active deliberation” of the Russian oil company Rosneft’s decision to sell its assets in Venezuela, OFAC Director Andrea Gacki said on Friday. “These reports on Rosneft’s acquisition or deal with PDVSA as well as …
Read More »Gazprom’s LNG Megaproject Doomed to Fail
The gas giant Gazprom is no longer in the spotlight after the US Treasury sanctioned Rosneft, the Russian national oil company, most probably triggering the collapse of the OPEC+ agreement and bringing about an unexpectedly low pricing environment for March 2020 within both the oil and gas segments. Having launched …
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