Wednesday, June 17, 2026
The first of three ambitious pipeline projects intended to firm Moscow's role as top gas exporter, the Power of Siberia, will be launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Monday, AFP reports. Two more gas pipelines that will ramp up supplies to Europe while...
Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller and Wintershall Dea CEO Mario Mehren discussed the current aspects of the companies’ interaction at a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday. In particular, the parties noted the contribution of the Nord Stream gas pipeline to the reliability and safety of gas supplies to consumers...
Russia’s gas giant Gazprom said on Sunday it’s gas production in January-November reached 454.2 billion cubic meters, or up by 0.7% on the same period last year, TASS reported. According to Gazprom’s press statement, the company exported 178.5 billion cubic meters of gas in January-November 2019, or 99.3% of what...
Russian oil company Tatneft has revealed it paid $169 million for the recently concluded purchase of the fuel retail business of Finnish Neste in St. Petersburg, EADaily reports. At the end of October, the company bought 75 fuel gas stations and a fuel terminal in northwestern Russia for 10.832 billion...
Germany’s Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Posts, and Railway, or the Bundesnetzagentur, has appealed the decision of the EU Supreme Court, which has limited Gazprom’s access to the OPAL pipeline, Vedomosti reported. Three sources close to different parties in the legal battle told the business newspaper that the...
Russia and Ukraine have completed gas talks in Vienna on Thursday, agreeing to intensify bilateral work on the issue in coming days, the Russian Energy Ministry said in a statement, according to TASS. "The parties discussed Russian-Ukrainian cooperation in the gas sector, the settlement of mutual claims over the execution...
The member-countries of the Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) unanimously support the extension of an output cut deal with Russia and other non-OPEC oil producers, TASS reported citing three sources in delegations familiar with ongoing talks. According to the state-run news agency’s sources, OPEC members were willing to talk about extending...
Indian steelmakers have started testing samples of Russian coal, India’s Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Tuesday, adding that he was confident that his country would import more coking coal from Russia this winter, Reuters reports. “Offtake of coal from Far East Russia can grow as the coking coal…becomes more attractive...
Rosneft won the annual Kommersant Initiative award in the Ecology nomination, Nezavismaya Gazeta reported. The company received an award for the implementation of a large-scale project to reduce the level of associated petroleum gas (APG) burning. The comprehensive APG utilization project is one of Rosneft’s most important environmental initiatives over...
Russian gas giant Gazprom said this week that start-up and commissioning process is in its final stage at the TurkStream gas pipeline, for the planned beginning of operation before the end of this year, LNG World News reports. “Currently, both strings of TurkStream – from the onshore facilities near Anapa to the receiving...