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Pokachi. President of LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov and Governor of Yugra Natalya Komarova took part in the festive events dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the town of Pokachi, one of LUKOIL’s anchor points in West Siberia. As an anniversary gift, a landscaped park decorated with an ...

Kogalym, Khanty-Mansi. President of PJSC LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov and Deputy Governor of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area (Yugra) Alexey Zabozlaev attended a festive ceremony today dedicated to the opening of a new department of diagnostic radiology in Kogalym. The Company sponsored the medical ...

Moscow. Chief Executive Officer of Russian oil major Rosneft Igor Sechin has not received summons for the next court session on September 1 on the case of ex-economy minister Alexey Ulyukayev charged with $2 mln bribe taking, which is tried in Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court, press ...

Moscow. Russia plans to spend about 160 billion rubles ($2. 7 billion) on the Arctic by 2025. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told the government that later today a new version of the state program for the social and economic development of the Arctic zone would be adopted. The ...

Washington. The United States is keeping an eye on developments regarding Russian oil major Rosneft and Venezuela’s PDVSA reportedly discussing a swap of a stake in US Citgo refining operator for shares in PDVSA projects, a White House representative told reporters. "We know ...

Doha. The four Arab countries which have cut ties with Qatar said on Sunday they were ready for talks to tackle the dispute if Doha showed willingness to deal with their demands, Trend reported. The foreign ministers of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) met ...

Berlin. CEOs of a number of European energy companies warn that the sanctions the United States wants to be imposed on the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline may entail negatives consequences for Europe, Germany’s Handelsblatt said on Thursday. Thus, Matthias Warnig, the Managing Director of ...

Stockholm. All Volvo car models launched after 2019 will be electric or hybrids. The Chinese-owned company said on Wednesday, making it the first major traditional automaker to set a date for phasing out vehicles powered solely by the internal combustion engine. The Sweden-based company ...

Yekaterinburg. Implementation of the Arctic projects in the Urals and Siberian Federal Districts would be a key topic at a meeting of a working group at the INNOPROM-2017 international industrial show, due in Yekaterinburg on July 10-13. The event’s organizers said on Tuesday. ...

Islamabad. More than 100 people died in Eastern Pakistan after an oil tanker turned over and caught a fire on a highway, Sputnik reported citing local media. The incident that occurred in Pakistan's eastern region of Punjab killed at least 123 people, according to local Geo TV ...

Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin will watch in the Black Sea resort city of Anapa on June 23 the ceremony of joining the Turkish Stream gas pipeline’s shallow water and deep-sea sections, the Kremlin press office reported on Thursday. "In Anapa, the head of state will ...

Moscow. The Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline is a purely commercial project having all chances to be successful, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday at the meeting with Chief Executive Officer of Royal Dutch Shell Ben van Beurden. "As far as our plans are concerned, including ...

Tehran. Iran’s oil minister says the US’s increasing oil production by 0. 9 million barrels per day (mb/d) has caused a decrease in oil price. Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said OPEC hadn’t predicted that the US shale oil production would increase as much as 0. 9 mb/d, ...

Washington. Ukrainian national oil and gas company Naftogaz wants to transit Russian gas after 2020, head of Business Development department at Naftogaz Yuri Vitrenko told TASS. "Yes, it is interested in this, " Vitrenko said after attending a seminar "Naftogaz and future of ...

The US Senate vote for imposing sanctions on Iran was expected, as even during the Obama Administration, a majority of Senate and House of Representatives was against the nuclear deal in total, Cyril Widdershoven, a Middle East geopolitical specialist and energy analyst, a partner at Dutch ...

Berlin. New sanctions under discussion in the US Congress are not critical for Russian oil and gas companies, Russia’s Deputy Energy Minister Anatoly Yanovsky told TASS on Thursday. "I don’t think so, " the official said responding to a question about the impact of ...

Moscow. The incomes the terrorist group calling itself the Islamic State (outlawed in Russia) gets from trade in crude oil has shrunk considerably since 2015, which is largely an effect of the counter-terrorist operation by Russia’s Aerospace Force in Syria, Russia’s deputy UN envoy ...

Helsinki. Russia’s support is crucial in implementing the Paris climate agreement, especially in the wake of the United States’ withdrawal, Finnish Minister of Housing, Energy and Environment Kimmo Tiilikainen told TASS on Wednesday. "It is certainly important as Russia ...