Fuel and energy

According to him, this step should be considered as a «pause for the start of negotiations», and not as sanctions against Moscow.

The head of the Austrian OMV Rainer Seele said that he fervently hopes for the soonest completion of the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

This happened for the first time since January 24, 2020.

Politicians called on the government to tighten it's policy towards Russia.

Russia is at risk of losing it's largest buyer with shipments of more than $289 million a year.

Oil transportation is carried out in transit directions and on routes for domestic consumption.

This happened for the first time since February 2020, in the background of the news of a reduction in the supply of Russian and Saudi oil.

Future US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken promised to use «any convincing tool» to do this.

The Ministry of Energy has already agreed on this proposal with colleagues from the Ministry of Economic Development.

As RIA Novosti reports with reference to the widespread statement, the German regulator of the Nord Stream 2 project - the Federal Office of Maritime Shipping and Hydrography of Germany - has extended the permit for pipe-laying work for Nord Stream 2 until May.

According to the Danish newspaper Politiken, the threat of serious US sanctions forced the consulting firm Rambøll to refuse to participate in the last part of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project.

As the KazTransOil company informs, Kazakhstan has resumed oil transit through Russia, oil pumping in the Atyrau-Samara section of the Uzen-Atyrau-Samara main oil pipeline has been fully restored.

This was reported by the adviser to the press secretary of the Russian energy company Transneft, Igor Dyomin.

The prices are affected by optimistic forecasts for supply and demand for fuel.