Fuel and energy

Ukraine has additional transit capacities, but Gazprom does not want to use them, Kiev said.

"Rosneft Bitumen" together with its official distributor "Synergy Oil Group" held a client seminar for road construction organisations and regional road administrations in Siberia and the Far East.

The US Senate will consider a bill on sanctions against Nord Stream 2 by 14 January next year.

The company decided to order 14% less than the usual volume — 27 million cubic meters per day against the usual 31.4 million.

Gas storage capacity in Germany has fallen below 60 percent.

According to the Federation Council, the words of the new Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer that Vienna continues to support the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is the position of a sane person.

The European Union plans to change the strategy for concluding gas contracts and improve the EU's energy security, Bloomberg reported.

Austria continues to support the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and expects to launch it soon. This was announced on Tuesday, December 14, by the new Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer.

The spot price of gas in Europe at the opening of exchange trading on Tuesday, December 14, increased by 5.3% and rose above $ 1,400 per 1,000 cubic meters. m for the first time since the beginning of October.

The project has been completed and «now it needs to be used», Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said.

The politician noted that he considers such a reaction as an extreme measure.

The head of the permanent delegation of Ukraine to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Yegor Chernev said that the United States does not refuse sanctions on Nord Stream 2.

Earlier, the price of the January futures rose to $1,185 per thousand cubic meters.

Implementation of a large-scale gasification program in Russia will allow to reduce CO2 emissions by 23 million tons by the end of 2024.

The German newspaper Handelsblatt spoke about the possible impact of the agreements with the United States on cooperation between Berlin and Moscow.