Russia

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May 17, 2018
The U.S. stepped up its opposition to the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany, saying the project raises security concerns and that it could draw U.S. sanctions.
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May 16, 2018
Russia will face a tough choice in talks with OPEC next month as an increasing number of its valuable oil wells lie idle.
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May 04, 2018
The scope of Russia’s profit-based tax (NDM) pilot scheme will still be limited in the context of Russia’s upstream sector, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
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May 03, 2018
Russia reaffirmed its pledge to an alliance with OPEC, despite two months of breaching its target under a global oil-output deal.
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May 02, 2018
OPEC and Russia seem determined to keep on cutting production even after their campaign to rebalance world oil markets achieved its main target. The primary justification for doing so looks shaky.
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May 01, 2018
Lukoil has completed the installation of the wellhead platform's topside as part of Yury Korchagin field Phase 2 development in the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea.
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April 30, 2018
Schlumberger Ltd. won preliminary approval to finally complete a three-year-old plan to buy into Russia’s biggest oil driller.
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April 26, 2018
The world’s biggest exporter of natural gas is turning up the taps to Europe.
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April 25, 2018
Achimgaz, a German-Russian joint venture of Wintershall and Gazprom, has achieved a new milestone, with total production reaching 30 Bcm of natural gas. In the same period the company has produced more than 13 million tons of gas condensate, to date.
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April 25, 2018
Are Berlin’s close energy ties with Moscow paying off?
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April 18, 2018
OPEC and Russia will meet in Saudi Arabia this week to discuss the looming political crises and extending production cuts.
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April 17, 2018
Gazprom Neft has confirmed the digital transformation of its business as a priority area, with the creation of a new Digital Transformation Directorate.
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April 13, 2018
Gazprom Neft has been confirmed as the winner of Rosnedra subsoil licensing rounds for six blocks in the Karabashsky exploration zone, located in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
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April 12, 2018
Rosneft PJSC is trying to persuade investors that it can shrink its record debt burden in an effort to close the valuation gap with some of its rivals.
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April 10, 2018
A working meeting between Alexey Miller, chairman of the Gazprom management committee, and Rainer Seele, chairman of the executive board of OMV, took place in St. Petersburg on April 9.
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April 09, 2018
Investors in the world’s biggest oil-services providers are so far looking past the most punitive round of U.S. sanctions on Russia.
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April 04, 2018
Germany’s governing coalition pushed back against President Donald Trump’s criticism of a gas pipeline with Russia, widening trans-Atlantic tension beyond conflicts over trade and security.
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March 29, 2018
Rosneft has opened an office of the International Center for Research and Development in Qatar, which will become a full-scale representative office of the Company, performing along with scientific and technical activities, and also functions to promote various business areas of the Company in the region.
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March 22, 2018
Rosneft has completed the drilling of the first super-deep exploration and appraisal well Maria-1 on the Zapadno-Chernomorskaya license area in the Black Sea.
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March 21, 2018
Analysis of crude oil production in Former Soviet Union (FSU) shows that about $123 billion in capital expenditure (capex) would be spent by FSU on oil projects over the next four years, to ensure that production grows to around 14.2 MMbpd in 2021, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
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March 21, 2018
Russia is going to need Ukraine for natural gas shipments for a while yet.
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