Any attack on the TurkStream gas pipeline will be an act of terrorism, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday. Speaking to state media, Orban said Budapest will “respond accordingly” if there is any attack on the pipeline, which carries gas from Russia to Türkiye and further to European …
Read More »Russia’s Oil Revenues Drop to the Lowest Level this Year
Falling crude oil prices and declining oil exports resulted in a $3.2-billion drop in Russia’s oil revenues to $15.3 billion for September, the lowest monthly oil export revenue for Moscow this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday. Total crude oil and oil product exports out of Russia …
Read More »India to Weigh Russia’s Offer on Sakhalin-1 Oil Project
India maintains a “healthy dialogue” with Russia and will look at what is offered following an announced ownership revamp to the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has told the Reuters news agency. Russia last week issued a decree allowing it to seize Exxon Mobil’s 30 …
Read More »Russia could be the Biggest Beneficiary of OPEC+ Cuts
The leader of the non-OPEC oil producers in the OPEC+ alliance, Russia, is the biggest beneficiary of the 2 million barrels per day (bpd) cut announced this week, as Russia will not cut any output while the price of oil is set to rise in the coming months, analysts say. …
Read More »Russia Orders Transfer of Exxon-Led Sakhalin 1 Project to New Entity
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to transfer operations of the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project in the Russian Far East to a new operator, reported Bloomberg News. The move would result in American energy firm Exxon Mobil’s final withdrawal from Russia and would give authority to the …
Read More »Russia Plans to Develop 6 Oil and 2 Gas Fields in Iran
The Iranian deputy oil minister says Russia’s state-run oil company Gazprom is going to develop six oilfields and two gas fields in the Islamic Republic. Ahmad Assadzadeh added that Iranian and Russian officials have agreed during talks in Moscow to fast-track plans to finalize deals to this end. Assadzadeh expressed …
Read More »Iran, Russia to Expand Cooperation in Holding Exhibitions
A senior official at the Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) of Iran has announced expansion of cooperation in holding exhibition between Tehran and Moscow. Rahmatollah Khormali, director of department of Central Asia, Russia and Caucasus at TPO, made the remarks in a meeting held in Moscow with the managing director of …
Read More »Iran Ready to Attract Russian Capital in Oil, Gas Projects
Iranian Oil Minister announced the readiness of the Iranian administration to attract the capital of Russians in the oil and gas sector. Javad Owji, in a meeting with 100 economic activists of the Russian Federation, which was held on the sidelines of the second Caspian Economic Conference, discussed the existing …
Read More »TotalEnergies will Continue Shipping Russian LNG as Long as there are no EU Sanctions
French energy giant TotalEnergies will continue to ship liquefied natural gas from Russia as long as there are no European sanctions on the fuel, the company’s Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne said on Wednesday, reiterating a previously stated position. “We will continue to ship LNG from Russia as long as there …
Read More »Belgium Calls for a Natural Gas Price Cap to Avoid Deindustrialization
The European Union needs to quickly intervene in its gas and energy markets, including by imposing a price cap on wholesale gas, to avoid a spiral of deindustrialization and social unrest amid sky-high energy prices, Belgium’s Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told the Financial Times in comments published on Thursday. …
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