Wednesday, June 17, 2026
India is holding talks with Mongolia and Russia on coking coal imports to reduce dependence on already existing suppliers, Petroleum, Natural Gas and Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Monday, according to VZ.ru. "India has been importing coal from Australia, which is good, but high-quality coking coal is also available...
A total of 477 million cubic meters (cm) of Russian gas were sold by Gazprom Export's Electronic Sales Platform (ESP) on Thursday – a new daily record high, S&P Global Platts reported. According to the company, sales on the ESP have soared since the start of 2020 as the Russian...
The Syrian parliament has approved contracts for oil exploration with two Russian companies in an effort to boost production hit by more than eight years of war and Western sanctions, Oil & Gas Eurasia reports. Syria’s State news agency SANA said the deals between Damascus and Moscow cover exploration and...
The Office of the Attorney General for Pakistan last week denied a Russian consortium lead by TMK an application to take part in the $2 billion Lahore-Karachi gas pipeline, Urdu Point  News reported. TMK, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of steel pipes for the oil and gas industry, was...
The oil crisis between Russia and Belarus which began earlier this month is set to continue as the two countries have not yet agreed on the transit tariffs for Russian oil and oil products for 2020, the country’s ministry of antimonopoly regulation and trade said Monday, according to Reuters. Belarus...
Russian diamond miner Alrosa does not want to follow its main rival De Beers and enter the lab-grown diamonds segment, despite its growing share in the global market, Asian Age reports. Alrosa finds that lab-grown diamonds can co-exist with natural diamonds if they are properly declared, the report says. The company accepts...
India plans to double crude oil imports from the United States as part of its effort to reduce dependence on the volatile West Asia region, three officials with direct knowledge of the matter have said, according to the Hindustan Times. The news comes as Delhi said in November it is considering...
Russian companies are among the potential candidates to replace ExxonMobil as the U.S. energy giant prepares to cease its operations in Equatorial Guinea, the country's minister of mines and hydrocarbons Gabriel Obiang Lima has said, according to TASS. According to the state-run news agency, a company's spokesman said that ExxonMobil is...
The Nord Stream2 gas pipeline will be completed by Russia on its own, as there are no technological obstacles to overcome which would require outside assistance. This was announced by the head of Gazprom Alexey Miller in the program "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" on the TV channel Russia-1. The head of Gazprom...
Russia has expressed readiness for fresh partnership with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in the development of Nigeria’s multi-billion-dollar upstream, gas and power sectors, a high-ranking executive at NNPC has said, according to The Guardian Nigeria. A statement by the corporation’s Acting Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs, Mr....