Russia & FSU
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August 30, 2023
Since Russia started working with OPEC in 2017, Igor Sechin has consistently criticized the cooperation. The Rosneft CEO has pushed instead for the country to increase crude production and defend its market share from other global producers.
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August 21, 2023
The Norwegian energy company is working with Jefferies Financial Group Inc. to gauge buyer interest in the assets, which includes a 7.27% interest in the large Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli oil field, people familiar with the matter said.
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August 15, 2023
The explosion occurred at the Talinskoye oil field near Nyagan town in Khanty-Mansiysk region, the Moscow-based Izvestia newspaper reported, citing an unidentified source.
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August 04, 2023
The partnership will enable ADNOC to build a major footprint in a region with prolific natural resources and significant growth potential, facilitating a route into attractive international growth markets for gas in Europe and Central Asia.
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July 31, 2023
Rigs drilled 14.7 thousand kilometers of production wells in Russia from January to June, 6.6% more than planned and 8.6% more than the same period in 2022, according to data seen by Bloomberg.
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July 10, 2023
This first phase connects a subsea production well to a new gas processing platform, itself linked to SOCAR’s existing facilities in Oil Rocks. It has a production capacity of 4 MMcmgd and 12,000 bpd of condensate. The gas will be sold on the domestic market in Azerbaijan.
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June 16, 2023
The products provided include a range of proven solutions for contacting, connecting and branching electrical conductors, which are used at the sensitive interfaces of power grids and are crucial for the reliable transmission and distribution of electrical energy.
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April 17, 2023
The results of JKT-01Z followed by WR-B01Za provide back-to-back drilling success, further validating the company's reservoir understanding and confirming its ability to accurately place horizontal wells in areas of good productivity.
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April 03, 2023
Russia has decided to keep its oil production at a reduced level through 2023 amid high volatility in the global market, said Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak.
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March 24, 2023
MOL Group is transporting crude oil produced at its co-owned oilfield, the Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli in Azerbaijan, to Slovnaft Refinery in Bratislava. This is a major step in the company’s efforts to increase its crude sourcing flexibility.
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March 20, 2023
The G-7 previously agreed to review the price level in mid-March, and EU legislation stipulates that the aim should be to keep the threshold at 5% below average market rates.
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March 13, 2023
Government authorities have asked banks and traders to adhere to the rules, the people said, declining to be identified as the information isn’t public. Indian officials have not gone on the record to say they will support sanctions and the price cap imposed by the Group of Seven nations on Russia.
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March 09, 2023
Despite the exodus of almost every Western oil company, Russia can maintain crude oil production longer than many expect, according to S&P Global Vice Chairman Dan Yergin.
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February 24, 2023
Russia’s crude fetched an average of about $74 per bbl in the four weeks that followed the cap, according to calculations by experts including from the Institute of International Finance, Columbia University and University of California.
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February 21, 2023
Russia has covertly mapped the Dutch energy infrastructure in the North Sea and “undertakes activities that indicate espionage and preparatory actions for disruption and sabotage,” the intelligence agencies of the Netherlands said in a report on Monday.
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February 20, 2023
The combined measures would create a “holistic approach to pressure Russia” in the coming weeks, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu told reporters in Brussels.
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February 16, 2023
Pricing data from Platts, a unit of S&P Global, suggest traders are garnering an unusually large margin on shipments of Urals crude sent from Russia’s ports in the Baltic region to India’s west coast, with delivery prices more than $20 a barrel higher than the purchase amounts.
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February 14, 2023
Russian companies did the most drilling at their oil fields in more than a decade last year, with little sign that international sanctions or the departure of some major Western firms directly harmed so-called upstream operations.
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February 13, 2023
The European Union downplayed the impact of Russia’s cut in oil production and said it was forced on Moscow by sanctions related to its invasion of Ukraine.
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January 17, 2023
Masdar has signed joint development agreements with the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan for onshore wind and solar projects, and integrated offshore wind and green hydrogen projects, with a total combined capacity of 4 gigawatts.
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December 30, 2022
As the year comes to an end, World Oil looks back on all of our breaking news items. Record-breaking crude exports and billion-dollar oil projects are only some of the incredible feats the industry accomplished. Read our final collection of top news stories of 2022 here.
