The Russian bear is a decidedly different animal. Even as the oil price outlook has become clearly bearish, Russia knows little fear. It’s defying the oil price hibernation with bullish economic Continue Reading
US Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette took aim at Russia on Thursday, claiming it has “weaponized” its oil and natural gas supply while portraying an increase in US LNG exports as Continue Reading
A massive work of infrastructure has just been brought online, and its geopolitical implications are explosive. Last week, the presidents of Russia and China jointly inaugurated one of the biggest Continue Reading
The head of Russia’s largest oil firm, Rosneft, has pitched a massive Arctic oil project to Japanese companies in Tokyo, looking for foreign investment into the project estimated to cost Continue Reading
The National Oil Corporation of Libya has announced that Russia’s Tatneft has returned to its exploration project in the North African country, in the Northwest. “We are very pleased with Continue Reading
The US House and Senate armed services committees have agreed on a defence bill that would force the Trump administration to sanction companies that help Gazprom, the Russian state-owned gas Continue Reading
U.S. lawmakers have included sanctions on companies helping Russia’s gas giant Gazprom to complete the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project in the National Defense Authorization Act for the U.S. defense Continue Reading
Russia’s condensate production averaged 833,000 b/d in November, energy minister Alexander Novak said Friday. Stripping the November figure out from Russia’s previously reported oil output data shows that crude production Continue Reading
Russia is the second-largest producer and the largest exporter of natural gas in the world. The country’s most important customers are in Europe where the bulk of its exports are Continue Reading
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Monday oversaw the launch of a landmark pipeline that will transport natural gas from Siberia to northeast China, an Continue Reading
