Monday, April 29, 2024
No quotas will be issued in the U.S. for domestic uranium production, President Donald Trump announced late Friday, ordering instead a new 90-day review by a group of federal agencies, Reuters reported. In a memorandum, Trump said he did not concur with a U.S. Commerce Department investigation that found uranium...
New regulations slated to come into force this year could increase Russia’s energy influence in Romania, a country which for years was considered one of the least dependent countries on Russian gas imports, the Business Review writes.  After 2013, Romania’s gas imports from Russia rapidly declined, reaching a decades-low of...
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak and the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber met on Thursday to discuss issues of bilateral cooperation in the production of hydrocarbons and liquefied natural gas (LNG) and in geological exploration, according to Angi.ru. Novak said that energy...
Russia’s second-largest oil producer, Lukoil, has fully restored the volume of its oil supplies to customers after major contamination on the Druzhba oil pipeline, Vedomosti reported. The dirty oil crisis disrupted Russian crude supply to the west for weeks earlier this year. Lukoil redistributed its supplies through other export channels, including...
Russia’s oil output fell close to a three-year low in early July, amid a row between oil pipeline monopoly Transneft and Rosneft, the country’s biggest oil producer, RIA Novosti reports. Rosneft said that the pipeline company hurt its production by curbing oil intake from Yuganskneftegaz, the oil producer’s main upstream...
Workers at a factory owned by U.S. sanctions-hit van maker GAZ have taken an unusual, albeit creative path to appeal to U.S. president Donald Trump to lift sanctions on their company – they recorded a rap video, Newsweek reported.  Last week, workers at GAZ’s Yaroslavl factory performed an anti-sanctions rap...
Moscow will start gas supply talks with Belarus after the integration issue is resolved, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak told reporters on the sidelines of the INNOPROM industrial trade fair on Monday, Interfax reports. Over the years, Russia has been advocating complete integration with Belarus and creating a union...
The sixth-largest oil company in Russia, Tatneft, has agreed to buy Finnish firm Neste’s fuel retail business in the country for an undisclosed value, Interfax reported.  The transaction covers 75 fuel stations and a terminal in the St. Petersburg region, the news agency wrote, citing a statement from the Russian...
A Shell oil refinery in Germany has halted imports via the Russian Druzhba pipeline because of slightly higher concentration of organic chlorine found in the crude, Reuters reported citing a Shell spokesman. The statement comes just weeks after Russia said it had fully resumed oil flows to Europe via the...
A major China-Russia energy cooperation project entered a new phase on Thursday, when construction work started on its middle section on Thursday, Reuters reports. Starting from Northeast China's Jilin Province and ending in North China's Hebei Province, the section is expected to alleviate natural gas shortages in Northeast China and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei...