Russian billionaire Arkady Rotenberg said on Wednesday he did not buy a stake in Russian gas giant Gazprom, after media reports claimed he had invested in the state-run gas giant, Reuters writes.
“We (or companies related to us) are not buying, exchanging or investing in Gazprom shares,” Rotenberg, a longtime Gazprom...
Russia and Belarus have negotiated a 3.7% increase in the tariff on oil transit via the territory of Belarus from September 1, BelTA news agency reports citing state oil company Belneftekhim.
The move is seen as compensation for Belarus following an oil contamination scandal in Russia earlier this year which has...
The operator of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 project, Nord Stream 2 AG, said on Monday that the process of laying pipelines in Swedish waters is almost finished and will be completed in October, Oil Capital reported.
"Pipelay in the 510-kilometre long Swedish section of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is almost...
Russian oil companies are forced to evacuate workers and suspend drilling in Siberian oilfields as wildfires continue to rage, industry sources told Reuters.
The conditions are adding to challenges facing the world's second-largest crude exporter which is already battling an oil contamination problem, the news agency writes.
Russian output fell to...
Romanian offshore service provider GSP Offshore has secured two contracts for works in the Black Sea, Romania Insider reports.
The company signed a contract for integrated drilling services with Russian energy giant Lukoil to explore the Trident perimeter, which is owned by Lukoil (87.8%) and Romanian state-owned gas producer Romgaz...
Legislation to impose sanctions on the construction of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline was approved by the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday, Bloomberg reports.
The bill, “Protecting Europe’s Energy Security Act,” which passed by a 20-2 vote, reflects some lawmakers’ concerns over Russia’s energy grip on Europe...
The following is the transcript of the recording of the Russian-Italian oil deal held in the Moscow Metropol Hotel on October 18, 2018, that BuzzFeed News reported on last month. The meeting was attended by Gianluca Savoini, a close, longtime aide of Italy’s nationalist deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini,...
Gianluca Savoini, a closely placed aide of Italy’s nationalist deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, two Italians and three Russians discussed the terms of a deal to secretly funnel around $65 million of Russian oil money to Salvini’s Lega party and its European election campaign.
The meeting was held in the...
Russia’s biggest oil company Rosneft last week held public hearings together with regional authorities in Taymyr on its upcoming oil exploration in the Vostochno-Prinovozemelsky-2 license area, the Barents Observer reported.
The meeting took place in Dudinka, the port town in the far north Peninsula, local media wrote citing the...
Russia’s state-run nuclear energy corporation Rosatom has delivered the first large piece of equipment – the core catcher - for Turkey’s Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in the Mediterranean province of Mersin, the plant's project company announced on Monday, according to Energy Reporters.
The component, which will be installed under the nuclear reactor...
