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Last month, Russia managed to bring its crude oil exports back to pre-war levels. This is stated in the April report by the International Energy Agency, Ukrinform reports. “Russian oil exports in March soared to the highest since April 2020 thanks to surging product flows that returned to levels last …

Russian oil exports jumped to their highest level in almost three years in March despite Western sanctions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced on Friday, though Moscow’s oil revenues nevertheless dropped sharply from last year. Following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the West has imposed a slew of …

Despite sanctions, Russian oil exports jumped to their highest level in almost three years in March, however, revenues were down sharply from last year, the International Energy Agency said Friday, reported The Moscow Times. The West imposed a slew of sanctions against Russia since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022, …

The Italian government has given conditional approval for the sale of a refinery owned by Russia’s Lukoil to a Cyprus-based private equity firm, Reuters has reported, citing unnamed sources in the know. The conditions set by the Italian government for buyer G.O.I. Energy include guarantees that no jobs will be …

India’s imports of crude oil from Russia touched a new high of 1.64 million barrels per day in March and is now double of the purchases from Iraq – the nation’s traditional top oil supplier. But the purchases appear to have plateaued as growth has slowed. Russia continued to be …

Russia’s Energy Ministry said the nation reduced its oil output by about 700,000 barrels a day last month, according to a person familiar with the figures. Yet that figure is inconsistent with data on the nation’s March seaborne exports and supplies to domestic refineries — adding to the uncertainty over …

The increasingly closer relations between China and Russia and the Chinese push to make its currency more relevant on the global markets are challenging the dominance of the petrodollar. The U.S. dollar, which has been the currency of choice in oil trade since the 1970s, is still the dominant currency …

Russia remained Turkey’s top crude exporter in January, according to the statistics released by the Turkish Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK) on Saturday, Trend reports citing TASS. The statistics say that 1.18 million tons of crude oil and petrochemical products were imported from Russia, followed by Iraq and Kazakhstan with …

A Japan’s leading trading company has reportedly offered Pakistan to sell Russian oil and Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) to Pakistan at 35 per cent less than the global market’s prices. The Japanese company partners with an Irish company for the purpose. It is learnt that the representative of the …

The U.S. surpassed Russia as the top oil supplier to Europe at the end of last year as sanctions targeting Russia’s energy sector took hold. In December 2022, the U.S. exported nearly 34.5 million barrels of oil to the European Union, accounting for about 18% of the EU’s total imports, …