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Oil prices rose on Friday but remained posted their steepest weekly losses since March, after another partial lifting of Russia’s fuel export ban compounded demand fears due to macroeconomic headwinds. On Friday, Brent futures settled up 51 cents at $84.58 per barrel. US West Texas Intermediate crude futures settled up …

Russia may account for almost a third of India’s oil imports by the end of the current financial year, Arun Kumar Singh, the head of India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp Ltd, was cited as saying on Saturday by Russian news agency Interfax. “The share of Russian oil imports, which …

India is taking most of Russia’s Urals crude oil loading in December as it remains top buyer for a second month in a row, according to traders and Refinitiv data. Volumes and India’s share of the exports are expected to rise month on month despite a shorter loading plan for …

OPEC on Wednesday cut its 2022 forecast for growth in world oil demand for a fourth time since April and also trimmed next year’s figure, citing slowing economies, the resurgence of China’s COVID-19 containment measures and high inflation. Oil demand will increase by 2.64 million barrels per day (bpd) or …

Russia held its spot as China’s top oil supplier for a third month in July, data showed on Saturday, as independent refiners stepped up purchases of discounted supplies while cutting shipments from rival suppliers such as Angola and Brazil. Imports of Russian oil, including supplies pumped via the East Siberia …

A 650,000-barrel-cargo of Venezuela’s oil chartered by Italy’s Eni is about to set sail carrying the first export of crude from the US-sanctioned country to Europe in two years, Refinitiv Eikon data showed on Friday. The US State Department sent letters to Eni and Spain’s Repsol in May authorizing them …

Russian state-owned gas producer Gazprom continued to supply natural gas to Europe via Ukraine on Saturday at the pace of 74.6 million cubic metres per day, in accordance with requests from European consumers, the company said. This was in line with the 74.5 mcm reported earlier by Interfax news agency, …