Monday, June 9, 2025
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Russia ranked second in total petroleum shipments to the United States in May 2021, with record-breaking deliveries totaling 26.17 million barrels. The previous high was achieved in May 2009, when Russia shipped 25.08 million barrels of crude oil and petrochemicals to the United States,...
The decision by U.S. President Joe Biden not to obstruct the building of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has spurred new attempts in the U.S. Congress to stop it. To oppose the action by the secretary of state, a group of Republican Senators is attempting to reject the president's...
The Russian Economic Development Ministry's plan to examine small-scale LNG exports from Russia by giving licenses for supply overseas without consulting with Gazprom has been criticized. The energy giant  thinks that as the number of Russian LNG suppliers increases, so will competition among them. This might lead to reduced pricing...
For the Arctic LNG-2 project, NOVATEK will attract loans worth more than 9.2 billion euros, the company reported in its financial statements, Russian media writes. The "Arctic LNG-2" company signed a deal back in April 2021, with a syndicate of Russian banks. Those banks are VEB, Sberbank, Gazprombank, and Otkritie...
The Nord Stream 2 pipeline should be finished by the end of August, and the first gas flow through the pipeline may begin this year, according to Rainer Seele, CEO of Austria's OMV, at a news conference on the company's second-quarter results. "I'm hoping for the Nord Stream 2 to...
Rolf Mutzenich, the head of the Social Democratic Party of Germany's (SPD) group in the Bundestag, told the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland editorial board that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline should be built and put into use as quickly as possible. The US and Germany achieved a deal on the Nord...
To preserve the operability of the gas transmission system, Ukraine needs to become a "gas hub" of Europe, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the Servant of the People party, Yuri Kamelchuk, said. After the start of operation of the Nord Stream-2 pipeline, a shortage of fuel may begin...
Nobody offered Ukraine to buy Russian gas, Gazprom said, commenting a statement by Yuriy Vitrenko, chairman of the board of Naftogaz Ukrainy, on this issue, Russian media informed. "Alexei Miller's (Chairman of the Board of Gazprom) comments are addressed to our partners from the EU countries, primarily German ones," Gazprom...
The Russian oil company Lukoil has discussed a partial sale of its investment in West Qurna 2 with Iraqi officials, but the Oil Ministry of Iraq has urged that Lukoil continue to participate in the project, according to Vagit Alekperov, President of the Russian oil major. "We informed of...
Moscow has never used energy as a "weapon" or a tool of pressure, and the manner of the Nord Stream 2 deal between Germany and the US is unacceptable, Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergey Nechaev said on Thursday. "We are quite shocked by the substance and tone of the Joint...