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Russian Sakhalin-1 faces difficulties with oil shipments
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Russian oil drilling activity record-high in 2023
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Turkmenistan: Swap stop
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Ukraine extracts more than 1bcm of gas for the first time in 20 years
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Germany’s power consumption falls to the 1990 level as industry withers
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Foreign backers of Novatek’s Arctic LNG-2 said to declare force majeure
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The 24.99% stake of Austrian oil and gas company OMV in the West Siberian Yuzhno-Russkoye gas field was seized by Russian authorities and will be transferred to newly established local companies under a special presidential decree.
Georgia plans to import 3 bcm of gas from Azerbaijan in 2024
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Iran’s gas import from Turkmenistan disrupted
Iran’s gas imports from Turkmenistan have been halted in a blow to the country’s fragile supply that falls in the winter over surging demand.
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Azerbaijan appoints former oil executive as head of climate talks
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Belarus’ state-owned oil company Belorusneft lifted a record breaking 1.87mn tonnes of oil in 2023
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Although the company did not provide a specific figure for the record, it announced that gas exports to China through the pipeline had surged to 22.7bn cubic metres in 2023.
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