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Tokyo. Oil prices surged as much as nearly 20% on Thursday, bouncing back from days of heavy losses in a relief rally that may yet be short-lived, analysts warned, but which was stoked by economic stimulus efforts to ward off a global coronavirus recession. Brent crude LCOc1 was up $2. 10, ...

Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged to hold control over petroleum products prices. "Summer diesel prices have slightly increased, while winter (diesel prices) added more, but also within inflation. Whereas (prices of) 92 (Octane) gasoline gained 10. 44% in one year. ...

Moscow. Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation Dmitry Kobylkin and President of LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov signed Joint Action Agreement in Moscow, today. According to the document, LUKOIL will supplement its current corporate biodiversity action plan with ...

Moscow. Deputy Head of the RF Federal Road Agency (Rosavtodor) Igor Kostyuchenko and Vice President of LUKOIL for Petroleum Products Sales Maxim Donde signed a cooperation agreement in Moscow, today. The signing ceremony was attended by the RF Minister of Transport – Head of Rosavtodor ...

Minsk. A draft decree on the promotion of electric vehicles is on the agenda of a meeting of the head of state with the leadership of the Council of Ministers in Minsk on 9 March, BelTA has learned. According to the head of state, electric vehicles have not yet received a proper momentum in ...

Moscow. The Board of Directors of PJSC "LUKOIL" (hereinafter the Company) approved today the list of candidates for the election to the Board of Directors at the 2020 Annual General Shareholders Meeting. The list of candidates was proposed by the Board of Directors pursuant to the ...

Baku. The United States Government has strongly supported the Southern Gas Corridor for more than a decade because of the contribution it will make to European energy security and to the political and economic integration of the Caspian region with the West, Nathan Reich, Energy Diplomacy ...

Rabat. The 10th international petroleum exhibition and conference NAPEC 2020, which was to be held in the Algerian city of Oran from March 15 to 18, was postponed due to the spread of the coronavirus, the event organizers reported on Tuesday. "We have to be mindful that our valued ...

Moscow. LUKOIL and the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District concluded a supplementary agreement on cooperation for 2020, defining priority actions to facilitate social and economic development of the region. According to the document, LUKOIL will support Yamineh charity foundation, ...

Khanty-Mansi. Gazprom Neft has entered into a further social and economic cooperation agreement with the Government of the Khanti-Mansi Autonomous Okrug—Yugra. The signatories to this agreement were Alexander Dyukov, CEO and Chairman of the Management Board, Gazprom Neft, and Natalya ...

Moscow. The demand for LNG, bio and low-sulphur bunkers has increased enormously in Rotterdam over the past year. Total sales in this largest European bunker port fell from 9. 5 million m3 to 9 million m3, Port of Rotterdam Authority said in its release. In the last quarter of 2019, ...

Moscow. The Gazprom Management Committee reviewed the information on improving the payment discipline with regard to domestic gas supplies, as well as on the measures being taken to settle the outstanding consumer debt for the gas supplied, including the interaction with government authorities ...

Moscow. A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Davaa Dulamsuren, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mongolia to the Russian Federation, took place in Moscow. The parties discussed issues related to the potential ...

Moscow. Elena Vasilieva has been replaced as Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee – Chief Accountant of Gazprom by Mikhail Rosseev, former Deputy Chief Accountant. The relevant decisions on the termination of membership in and election to the Gazprom Management Committee will be ...

Moscow. Rosneft Oil Company joined the leading global oil and gas companies – participants of the international rating in the Water Resources Category under the CDP Project (Carbon Disclosure Project). Taking into account water management decisions, Rosneft’s operations were assigned ...

Sumgayit. The State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic SOCAR has implemented social projects in Azerbaijan’s Sumgayit city, Deputy Head of the Public Relations and Events Department at SOCAR Ibrahim Ahmadov said, Trend reports on Feb. 13 from the SOCAR press tour in Sumgayit city. ...

Ashgabat. Guychgeldi Baygeldiyev has been appointed the chairman of Turkmenistan's State Oil Concern Turkmenoil (Turkmennebit), Trend reports with reference to the relevant decree of the Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. About 10 million tons of oil are extracted in ...

Baku. Presently, relations between Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan can be described as mutually beneficial cooperation at the highest level, Kazakh Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi told reporters in Baku after the Extraordinary Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers and the Cooperation Council ...