Russia

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December 31, 2019
At stake are crude deliveries to Belarus totaling 24 million tons a year, while the future of transit volumes -- supplies passing through the country en route to Europe -- remains uncertain.
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December 27, 2019
OPEC+ output cuts have stabilized the global oil market but can’t last forever, Russia said as uncertainty persists over the future of the agreement beyond March.
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December 23, 2019
Equinor and Rosneft have taken an investment decision on the first stage of the North Komsomolskoye full field development.
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November 29, 2019
OPEC and its allies sent more signals that they’ll stick with existing output cuts at their meeting next week.
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November 27, 2019
Russia, OPEC’s largest ally in a deal to cut oil production, is once again failing to keep its side of the bargain.
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October 31, 2019
A cargo of contaminated Russian oil was sold at a discount of more than $25/bbl to benchmark crude prices, six months after the consignment first got loaded onto a tanker.
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October 23, 2019
The memorandum lays the basis for LUKOIL’s potential participation in projects to explore and produce hydrocarbons in Equatorial Guinea.
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October 23, 2019
The OPEC+ oil-production cuts deal could be improved by taking into account forecasts for global crude-demand growth and U.S. shale, Gazprom Neft PJSC Head of Strategy and Innovation Sergey Vakulenko said in an interview on Wednesday.
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October 17, 2019
The Ghasha mega-project is expected to produce over 1.5 Bcfd of natural gas by around 2025.
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October 16, 2019
Under the terms of the agreement, ADNOC and REA will jointly explore opportunities for collaboration in relation to Abu Dhabi’s exploration and production concessions.
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October 15, 2019
Gazprom reports preparations for the first pipeline supplies of Russian gas to China via the Power of Siberia gas pipeline, among several other eastern Russia gas projects.
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October 08, 2019
Russia’s biggest liquefied natural gas producer expects to be able to mitigate any impact should U.S. sanctions on China prevent it from using a third of its fleet.
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October 02, 2019
This year, the oil market has faced some of the worst supply disruptions in recent times and yet prices remain stuck in the $60s.
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September 17, 2019
WAXTREAT SubZero is a winterized PPD with customization capabilities, enhancing performance, while mitigating paraffin build-up, in crude oil pipeline systems, at the same time reducing OPEX requirements associated with pipeline cleaning.
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September 17, 2019
Qingdao McDermott Wuchuan Offshore Engineering Co. Ltd in Qingdao, China, has been awarded a contract to provide three complex modules for the Arctic LNG 2 Project in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region in Russia.
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September 12, 2019
Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and Group CEO of ADNOC and Alexander Novak, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation met to explore potential opportunities for collaboration as ADNOC seeks to expand its strategic partnership and investment base across its entire value chain.
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September 10, 2019
Poland successfully challenged a European Commission decision that allowed Gazprom PJSC to use most of the capacity on the Opal pipeline in Germany. That link in turn carries fuel from the Baltic Sea Nord Stream pipeline, a key part of the Moscow-based company’s plans to avoid shipping its fuel across Ukraine.
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September 05, 2019
Russia took a step closer to becoming a dominant player in the global liquefied natural gas market as two of its biggest energy companies advanced plans to export the fuel from its remotest corners.
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August 22, 2019
Oil prices may be recovering, but Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t taking any chances, running a budget that balances at the lowest crude price in more than a decade.
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August 16, 2019
U.S. sanctions against Iran and Venezuela have inadvertently increased demand for a Russian brand of crude oil, boosting revenues for the nation’s exporters.
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August 12, 2019
the Bank of Russia’s total stockpile of cash, gold and other securities is about to surpass Saudi Arabia’s, highlighting the Kremlin’s leverage in talks between major oil producers about how much to reduce production.
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