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Cairo. The Tobruk-based parliament in Libya on Wednesday accused Qatar of supporting militants that had attacked Libyan oil ports in June, local media reported. According to the Libyan News Agency, the statement was made by the defense and national security committee of the House of ...

Rio de Janeiro. One of Brazil richest men, Eike Batista, has received a 30-year prison sentence for bribes given to the former governor of Rio de Janeiro, Sergio Cabral, Reuters reports, citing a federal court document. Cabral was also convicted. The federal court found ...

New York. Oil held near three-year highs on U. S. Independence Day as tight supplies at home and abroad overshadow a Saudi pledge to boost output. President Donald Trump reacted with an angry tweet. OPEC is “doing little to help” reduce gasoline costs, Trump tweeted. “If ...

Washington. President Donald Trump's negative approach to counter high oil prices has put his energy policies to the test as high crude prices continue to benefit the American oil industry, while helping Trump realize his energy goals. Trump, who has long been a critic of high oil ...

Moscow. Saudi Arabia and Russia reaffirmed an agreement between OPEC and its allies to increase oil production by 1 million barrels a day. Their joint announcement came days after U. S. President Donald Trump said he’d received assurances from Saudi Arabia that the kingdom could boost ...

Washington. The United States is willing to work with nations that are decreasing oil imports from Iran on case by case basis, US Department of State Director of Policy Planning Brian Hook told reporters. "Our goal with respect to the energy sanctions, our goal is to increase ...

Moscow. The LUKOIL Press Service informs all parties concerned that its official trademark and corporate identity are illegally misused at http://www. lukoil25. men/. Besides, false information has been sent through mobile apps and social networks about a special offer of 200 liters of free fuel ...

Addis Ababa. Ethiopia, for the first time ever, began producing crude oil at Kalub and Hilala fields on Thursday in the eastern part of the country. A groundbreaking trial-production ceremony saw three oil wells spewing 150 barrels, each raising the nation’s hopes of generating the ...

Almetyevsk. TATNEFT Company expanded the list of regions of the Company’s presence by opening filling stations on the territory of the Tula region. Two contra-laterally arranged filling stations of "Tatneft-AZS" started their work at the address: Tula region, Venevsky ...

Moscow. A group of Russian scientists received a grant from the Russian Fund for Fundamental Studies to analyze soil pollution in all cities and towns in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region. The project will last for three years, an expert of the Scientific Center for the Arctic Studies Roman ...

Moscow. The Gazprom Board of Directors held a meeting in absentia. The Board of Directors reelected Valery Golubev, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee, as a Member of the Gazprom Management Committee for a 5-year period starting from April 18, 2018.

Baku. The "Southern Gas Corridor", implemented by Azerbaijan, is a project uniting all elements of energy security and diversification, Azerbaijan’s Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov said during his speech on 27th World Gas Conference in Washington, Azerbaijan's Energy ...

Washington. The United States has told countries to cut all imports of Iranian oil from November and is unlikely to offer any exemptions, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday as the Trump administration ramps up pressure on allies to cut off funding to Iran. U. S. President ...

Tehran. The 1st International Iran Gas Show (IRGS) will be held in the Iranian capital of Tehran in September, the spokesman of the exhibition said. The first International Iran Gas Show (IRGS) will be held in Tehran on September 1-4 at Shahr-e-Aftab International Exhibition Complex, ...

Moscow. A Gazprom delegation headed by Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company’s Management Committee, today paid a visit to the Seversky Pipe Plant (SPP) in the Sverdlovsk Region. The Plant, which is owned by TMK, manufactures a wide range of pipe products for the oil and gas ...

St. Petersburg. A Gazprom delegation led by Viktor Zubkov, Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors, visited today a renovated CNG filling station of Gazprom in Aksai during a business trip to the Rostov Region. The facility in Aksai is among the CNG stations supplying natural ...

Moscow. The International Children’s Forum was held in Moscow as part of the 6th season of the Football for Friendship (F4F) international children’s social programme organized by Gazprom, an official partner of FIFA and the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™. Unprecedented in ...

Moscow. Russia will advocate proportionally escalating crude production between all participants of the OPEC+ deal at the upcoming Vienna summit scheduled for June 22-23, a source in the cabinet told TASS. "Russia will consider various options. We see that the market is well-balanced, ...