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Russia intends to support a further increase in OPEC+ production at the group’s meeting next month, even as a new strain of the coronavirus raises concerns about demand, said officials familiar with the country’s oil policy. As of now, Moscow believes it makes sense to raise OPEC+ output by 500,000 …

Russia hopes the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will not derail producer nations’ action to boost oil markets, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Monday. Russia, other leading oil producers and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, a group known as OPEC+, have joined forces …

The Kremlin sees US sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, expected to pump gas from Russia to Europe, as a sign of a hybrid war, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday. Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska has recently said that “sanctions are a tool of a very real modern hybrid …

The Russian oil company Tatneft is examining the possibility of resuming its operations in Libya, having ceased its works following the revolution of the 17 February, 2011. The Media East Monitor website reported that the company wished to return and resume production and exploration operations in several locations in Libya. …

The OPEC+ group may prolong its current strategy to manage oil markets until the end of 2022 in order to keep speculators “on their toes”, Saudi energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman and Russian deputy prime minister Alexander Novak said in a joint press conference Dec. 19. The show of …

Global gas demand will not decline in coming 25-30 years, it will only rise due to a small carbon footprint, Russian Deputy Energy Minister Pavel Sorokin told a forum on Friday. “Due to the fact that gas has the smallest carbon footprint we do not expect a decline in gas …

The Russian government has approved the participation of the China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) in a large petrochemical project. Thus, the Cabinet, led by Michail Mishustin, is acting in accordance with Moscow’s strategy of establishing closer economic relations with Beijing. As per a framework agreement signed by the parties …

Russia is successfully weaning itself off oil revenues, President Vladimir Putin said today during an annual end-of-the-year news conference, as quoted by RT. “This means that, while we’re not completely there, we are nonetheless starting to get off the so-called oil and gas needle,” Putin said, adding, “If someone still …

Russian energy giant Rosneft on Tuesday said it had discovered a new gas field in the Kara Sea with total reserves of 514 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas and 53 million tonnes of condensate.

The US Congress has recently approved the annual Defence Authorisation Bill, which among other things included a fresh bunch of sanctions targeting the joint pipeline project by Russia’s Gazprom and several European energy giants, after previous measures failed to thwart its construction. The Nord Stream 2 pipeline “will never carry …