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By Rhod Mackenzie

Last year, Russia earned nearly $187 billion from supplying oil, gas, and coal to several friendly countries. This amount is $56 billion more than the average level of supplies to European countries before they imposed anti-Russian sanctions. RIA Novosti calculations were used to...

By Rhod Mackenzie

From 2026, the transit of Russian gas to Uzbekistan through Kazakhstan can be increased fourfold, to 11 billion cubic meters. Currently, Central Asia is the only new direction for Gazprom (MOEX: GAZP) after the collapse of supplies to Europe in the last two years. In 2023, the co...

By Rhod Mackenzie

In February, Russia's oil and gas revenues surged by over 80% from the previous year to exceed $10 billion, owing to the increase in crude prices.

The Finance Ministry reported that budget revenues from oil and gas taxes amounted to 945.6 billion rubles ($10.4 billion) last mon...

Recently, Qatar's Energy Minister Saadi al-Kaabi spoke about new plans for the development of the gas sector. Doha plans to increase gas production by another 13%, which will allow Qatar to control a quarter of the world's liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. Doha, of course, expects further signifi...

By Rhod Mackenzie

TotalEnergies Vice President for Asia, Thomas Morisse, predicts that demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) will increase in 2024, driven by China and Europe.

Morisse stated at an energy conference, as reported by Reuters, that "(Demand for) LNG will continue to grow. Europe is...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The shift of Russian oil and petroleum product exports from Western sanctioned markets to Eastern and Southern markets is almost complete. However, replacing the European market for gas exports, whether pipeline or LNG, has proven to be a challenging task.
In the past two years,...