Russia & FSU
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February 25, 2022
The impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine rattled global markets. There will be lasting implications for commodities, energy policy and the energy transition.
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February 25, 2022
The Biden administration won’t sanction Russian crude oil because that would harm U.S. consumers and not Vladimir Putin, a U.S. State Department official said Friday.
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February 24, 2022
Oil pared most of its gains after Biden said the U.S. is working with major consuming nations to coordinate a collective release from strategic petroleum reserves, while continuing to spare Russian supplies from sanctions.
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February 24, 2022
Oil surged above $105 a barrel for the first time since 2014 after Russia attacked sites across Ukraine, triggering fears of a disruption to energy exports at a time of already tight supplies.
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February 22, 2022
Russia’s Rosneft PJSC aims to develop new natural gas reserves regardless of whether the Kremlin allows the company to export the fuel through pipelines.
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February 14, 2022
Oil importers are racing to assess the risk of purchasing Russian supplies as tensions over Ukraine enter a potentially decisive week.
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February 07, 2022
LNG imports will not be able to meet shortfall and the additional supply levers required if Russian gas delivery disruption spreads beyond Ukraine to all European exports.
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January 25, 2022
Russia’s operating oil wells reached the highest since OPEC and its allies joined forces, yet bringing back production curtailed under the current deal remains elusive.
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January 18, 2022
Russia is keeping Europe’s natural gas market on edge, with no relief in sight from the country’s preliminary supply plans for next month.
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January 18, 2022
Russia may be able to deliver only about half of its scheduled increases in crude production over the next six months, joining the ranks of OPEC+ nations that are struggling to ramp up even as fuel demand rebounds from the pandemic.
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January 14, 2022
Russia has nothing to do with the energy crisis in Europe, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said, rejecting allegations from the International Energy Agency that it’s holding back supplies and driving up prices of natural gas.
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January 03, 2022
Russian gas giant Gazprom PJSC missed its own “conservative” target for 2021 exports to Europe, and those capped flows contributed to the continent’s worst energy supply crunch in decades.
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January 03, 2022
Russia failed to boost oil output last month despite a generous ramp-up quota in its OPEC+ agreement, indicating the country has deployed all of its current available production capacity.
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January 03, 2022
OPEC and its allies are expected to revive more oil supplies when they meet next week, underscoring the group’s optimism in the outlook for global demand.
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December 29, 2021
Gazprom PJSC has finished preparing the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline for natural gas exports to Europe, yet actual deliveries depend on how quickly regulators grant the project approval amid souring relations between Russia and Western nations.
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December 17, 2021
Everyone may be back to watching the daily number of coronavirus cases as the omicron variant spreads through Europe, but the energy market is focusing on a more traditional gauge of worry: the temperature.
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December 14, 2021
The European Union is planning a hard deadline to end long-term contracts to import natural gas as part of its green shift, a setback for top supplier Russia.
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December 13, 2021
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, under pressure from the U.S. to halt the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project over Russian aggression toward Ukraine, may quietly delegate the task to the country’s bureaucracy.
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November 23, 2021
European natural gas futures rose on Tuesday after the U.S. imposed its latest sanctions aimed at Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a move the Kremlin says is “illegal.”
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November 16, 2021
Global oil prices may rise to as high as $120 by the middle of next year as the ability of OPEC+ to meet demand is at risk from under-investments and sanctions, according to a Rosneft PJSC executive.
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November 15, 2021
Russia says there is no shortage of oil in the global market and there may even be a surplus from early next year, adding to the chorus of other OPEC+ members to push back against calls from the U.S. to raise output faster.
