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Russia announces it will slash gas flow via Nord Stream 1 by 60%
Russia’s Gazprom has announced it is slashing gas flow via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline by 60%, blaming Siemens’ failure to repair compressor units on time and other technical problems at the Portovaya compressor station.
DMEA: Progress at Haditha refinery
LatAmOil: APA finds water in Rasper well offshore Suriname
Houston-based APA Corp. has finished drilling the Rasper exploration well at Block 53 offshore Suriname without finding any hydrocarbons.
AfrOil: TotalEnergies makes FID on $850mn CLOV Phase 3 project
Angola’s National Agency for Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG) says France’s TotalEnergies has made a final investment decision on the $850mn Phase 3 development project at the CLOV oilfields within Block 17.
MEOG: NFE partner and Sakarya pipelaying
NorthAmOil: BP exits oil sands, enters Bay du Nord via Cenovus deal
BP announced this week that it had reached an agreement with Cenovus Energy that will see it relinquish its 50% stake in the Sunrise oil sands venture while farming into the undeveloped Bay du Nord project offshore Newfoundland and Labrador.
AsianOil: CPC receives Taiwan’s first cargo of carbon-offset crude
Taiwan’s CPC announced on June 12 that it had received the country’s first cargo of certified carbon-offset crude.
ENERGO: Finnish Fortum rushes Russia exit by July 1
Turkmenistan: Masks off
Uniting in paranoia with Russia, warming to Iran, and opening for business. This and more in Eurasianet's weekly Turkmenistan briefing.
AsiaElec: China sending mixed signals on coal use
EurOil: Norwegian oil strike averted
Tanzania: Scirocco to sell 25% stake in Ruvuma PSA to Wentworth
AIM-listed Scirocco Energy announced has arranged to sell its 25% stake in the Ruvuma block in southern Tanzania to UK-based Wentworth Resources.
GLNG: Malaysia’s Petronas plans to expand investments in LNG exports from Egypt to Europe
Russian energy export revenues up 40% in May despite sanctions
Despite the West’s push to phase out Russian energy imports and deprive the Kremlin of revenues to finance its war in Ukraine, the country’s export revenues were in fact up by almost 40% year on year in May.
Uzbekistan, Russia's Rosatom discuss 'cost optimisation' for nuclear plant
Tashkent indicates it has concerns that the project may not be economically feasible.
Fate of Russian Arctic megaproject Vostok Oil up in air amid sanctions, EU embargo
A year ago, Rosneft’s Vostok Oil megaproject in the Arctic was heralded as the next frontier for Russia’s oil industry and the biggest investment since the 1970s. Today Russia is sanctioned and the mega-project is unlikely to happen.
PdVSA orders filling stations to end subsidy by pricing diesel in US dollars
Venezuela’s national oil company PdVSA has instructed more than 100 filling stations around the country to begin selling diesel in US dollars.
NGC seeks to create hydrogen-based economy
Trinidad and Tobago’s state-owned Natural Gas Co. (NGC) is working with its subsidiary National Energy and independent consultancy Kenesjay Green Ltd to create a sustainable hydrogen-based economy.
MOSCOW BLOG: Energy wars and green energy
How successful will the West be in the coming energy wars and is it wishful thinking that Ukraine could use its Marshall Plan reconstruction money to become Europe's hydrogen powerhouse?
The Fourth Russia – Green Ukraine
The energy crisis that has wracked Europe since the EU began to cut itself from Russian energy five years ago has had a silver lining. It has driven the transfer to renewables much faster than anyone could have hoped, nowhere more than Ukraine
Nuclear deal dealt possible death blow as Iran yanks UN cameras
Responding to move, IAEA nuclear inspectorate chief says there’s now only a three to four-week window to find a way to reinstate the agreement aimed at ensuring Tehran doesn’t pursue building an atomic bomb.
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