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By Rhod Mackenzie

China's resale to Europe of some of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplied by Gazprom's Portovaya liquefaction complex is quite possible if EU countries face a cold winter, Igbal Guliyev, deputy director of the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO, to...

By Rhod Mackenzie

A number of leading oil companies in India are considering the possibility of using revenues from assets in Russia totalling $600 million to buy oil from the Russian Federation because of difficulties in repatriating dividends, The Economic Times newspaper reported, citing offici...

By Rhod Mackenzie

US measures to restrict chip exports to China violate market rules and will lead to the fragmentation of the global semiconductor market, said Chinese commerce ministry spokesman He Yadong.

In early September, US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the US would be as strict...

By Rhod Mackenzie

There are no problematic issues in the negotiation process on the gas hub project in Turkey with the Russian side, at this stage Ankara is only studying the market, the parties are aiming at active work, a source in the Turkish energy sector involved in the development of the pro...

By Rhod Mackenzie

OPEC disagrees with the forecast of the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Fatih Birol, that demand for fossil fuels will peak and decline by 2030, the organisation said.

Earlier in the week, Birol wrote about the future of fossil fuels in a Financial Times column,...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced the launch of an investigation into allegations that the Chinese government is subsidising the production of Chinese electric vehicles. From the outside, and it seems that the first impression is true, it looks...