Two little-known Russian companies that were awarded state contracts for oil and gas exploration in Syria last month have ties to Yevgeny Prigozhin, a secretive businessman and personal friend of President Vladimir Putin, a new investigative report by Novaya Gazeta has revealed.
Syria's parliament last week approved the contracts for...
A court has lifted injunctions on Gazprom assets in the UK, Luxembourg, the Netherlands that had been frozen under court action brought by Ukraine’s Naftogaz, the Russian energy giant said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
“According to confirmations received by Gazprom from local consultants on Jan. 20, 2020, the injunctions...
A subsidiary of Russian state-run oil company Rosneft in Germany, Rosneft Deutschland GmbH, has completed the deal to acquire a 3.57% stake in BayernoilRaffineriegesellschaftmbH from British giant BP increasing its shareholding in the refinery to 28.57% from 25%, Russia’s biggest oil firm said in a statement
According to Interfax, the...
Canadian gold mining company Kinross Gold has completed the $283-million acquisition of the Chulbatkan heap leach development project in Russia, and has started a comprehensive drilling programme aimed at updating the resource base by year-end, Mining Technology reported.
Kinross will be spending about $10-million on initial exploration drilling at Chulbatkan...
The amount of Russian coal imported by Thailand almost doubled in January-November from a year earlier, even as the country’s overall imports fell as a result of slower economic growth, Argus Media reported.
Thailand imported 946,000tons of Russian coal in the first 11 months of 2019, up from about 494,000tons...
India’s minister of Oil, Natural Gas and Steel Dharmendra Pradhan said there is “no doubt” that his country is interested in the possible participation in Vostok Oil, the major new oil project developed by Russian oil company Rosneft, TASS reports.
The minister gave the comment during this week’s visit to...
Russia’s state-run oil pipeline monopoly Transneft expects the volumes of crude in the trunk pipeline system to expand 0.8% to 488.5 million tons in 2020, Vedomosti writes citing data provided by the company.
Deliveries to Russian refineries may climb 5.3% to reach 259 million tons, but exports will decrease by...
The possible termination of energy carriers transiting through Latvia from Russia has put the Baltic country’s transport infrastructure companies on red alert, Latvian Transport Minister Talis Linkaits said on Wednesday, according to TASS.
"Both the ports and the railway are preparing for the worst case scenario, in which the flow...
A pair of managers specialized in liquefied natural gas (LNG) deals at Gazprom Marketing & Trading’s London office have left the company, sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
Gazprom Marketing & Trading (GM&T) is a trading arm of Russia’s energy giant Gazprom which, sources told Reuters in March 2018, is reorganizing its overseas...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), a key Gulf member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the group’s main ally Russia said on Wednesday they were still committed to meeting in March to decide on future production policies, Reuters writes.
Russian news agency TASS reported citing an...
