Fuel and energy

The Italian oil and gas company Eni signed an agreement to increase gas production in Egypt, as well as to increase the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe.

China is reducing gas purchases from Russia due to the end of the heating season, lockdown and geopolitics, ABN reports.

Oil refineries in India have complained about the high cost of Russian oil. Reported by Bloomberg.

Federation Council Speaker Matvienko said that European countries may refuse Russian energy resources, RIA Novosti reports.

Ruble settlements for gas with Minsk minimize the negative impact of sanctions on Belarus.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called on the European Union to set specific deadlines for the complete or partial withdrawal of EU countries from Russia's gas and oil.

Transit of Russian gas through Ukraine to Europe on Tuesday will decrease by more than 20% and will reach the level of the past weekend.

The Danish energy company Ørsted refused to make payments to Gazprom in rubles, Reuters reports with reference to the head of the enterprise, Thomas Thune.

The European Union, as part of anti-Russian sanctions, has banned the sale, supply, transfer or export to Russia of equipment for oil refining and liquefaction of natural gas (LNG).

Germany can achieve one hundred percent fullness of storage facilities only at the expense of Russian gas.

MEPs by a majority vote adopted a resolution calling on the European Union to impose an embargo on the supply of Russian gas, oil, coal and nuclear fuel.

The British energy security strategy provides for the expansion of the use of nuclear energy.

The incident occurred at the Devonport base, located in the city of Plymouth in the southwestern part of England.

German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said he sincerely would like to ban Russian energy imports, but at the moment this is not possible.

The use of US strategic oil reserves is a gesture of desperation, Americanist political scientist Malek Dudakov told Tsargrad.