Category: Russia

Czech oil refiner Unipetrol has stopped taking oil from the Druzhba pipeline due to chloride contamination detected at the Ukraine-Slovakia border, Czech officials said on Monday, but the Slovak pipeline Continue Reading

In the opinion of Russian officials, the oil contamination crisis that disrupted flows from the world’s second-largest exporter of crude this spring is long over.  But a closer look at Continue Reading

International cooperation on crude production has helped stabilize oil markets and is more important now than ever, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Monday. The Organization of the Petroleum Continue Reading

Oil flows to Poland through the Druzhba pipeline resumed on Thursday after being suspended on Wednesday evening due to the discovery of contaminated oil, Polish pipeline operator PERN said on Continue Reading

Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin’s early June 2019 summit in Moscow with People’s Republic of China (PRC) Pres. Xi Jinping seems likely to have a disproportionate influence on the next phases Continue Reading

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Third-quarter flows of Urals crude via Russia’s Baltic port of Ust-Luga are set to slide to 2.8 million tonnes from 9 million scheduled for April-June, a plan Continue Reading

Russian natural gas producer Gazprom said on Tuesday that U.S. liquefied natural gas was not currently replacing Russian gas on European markets. The United States has become the world’s fastest-growing Continue Reading

In the extreme conditions of Russia’s far northern Yamal peninsula, 500km from the nearest town, thousands of workers are drilling 1. 7km through permafrost for a contentious resource.  The natural gas Continue Reading

In Russia, oil stands for money and gas for power. The extensive pipeline infrastructure connecting gas fields in Siberia with consumers in primarily Europe has been the source of interdependency Continue Reading