Africa delivered 70,000 of Eni’s 73,000-boepd net output gain in Q3 2026, led by Côte d’Ivoire, Angola and Congo, as the Italian major sells mature assets.

A Russia that devotes more than two-fifths of its budget to one war, sells gas to Beijing at a deep discount and treats its leading eastern customer as an enemy is not projecting strength from Etorofu. It is advertising how few friends it has left.

The higher target lands while the country is still short of its earlier milestone, with 2.3 GW installed as of October.

Putin said efforts to exclude Russia from global gas markets would raise consumer costs at the Gas Exporting Countries Forum in Moscow.