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A Hungarian firm announced Saturday it will join the TurkStream gas pipeline, running from Russia to Turkey. MOL said it will join the gas pipeline through Serbia. The regulator approved a 10-year development plan that includes the construction of a new Serbian-Hungarian gas inter-connector, with a capacity of 6 billion …

The wind farm could generate 320GWh of clean energy annually and offset more than 250,000 tonnes of CO2.

Novatek, the largest private natural gas supplier in Russia, has said it will have sufficient gas reserves to add a $10bn LNG plant to its processing complex in northwest Siberia, and that it plans to build a series of transshipment complexes. The company began producing LNG at its Yamal plant …

Nord Stream 2 AG, the operator of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, should substantiate its appeal against the decision of the German Federal Network Agency [Bundesnetzagentur] not to exempt the Nord Stream 2 project from requirements of the revised EU gas directive, a spokesperson of the Higher Regional …

Lukoil said on Monday that it started drilling an exploration well at the Shirotno-Rakushechnaya prospect located north of the V.I. Grayfer field. The well, with the target depth of 1,650 meters, was drilled from the Astra jack-up drilling rig. The rig is designed for shallow waters and the sea at …

The Russian energy ministry expects the average Urals price to be $35/b in 2020, minister Alexander Novak said in an interview with German daily Handelsblatt published June 20. Russia’s 2020 budget is based on an oil price of $42/b, officials said previously. Novak said he currently only expects oil services …

Russia hopes that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will be finalized and it will help step up energy security in Europe in the future, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a televised interview on Russia’s Channel One on Saturday. “Unconditionally, we are hoping that the project will be finalized …

Global oil demand will not return to pre-crisis levels earlier than in 2021, the RIA news agency quoted Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak as saying on Saturday. It is possible that demand will reach pre-crisis levels within two or three years, Novak said.

Russian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov in a statement rejected any evidence regarding Iran’s undeclared nuclear activities in two sites cited by the International Atomic Energy Agency. There are no evidence that Iran is currently conducting undeclared nuclear activities at these locations, Ulyanov …

Oil slipped from the highest settlement in 11 weeks on signs Russia was planning to start easing supply cuts from July, while tensions between the U.S. and China escalated amid the specter of sanctions. Futures fell 1.3% in New York after closing above $34 a barrel for the first time …