In a recent twist, Berlin is no longer ruling out shelving the pipeline project. But Europe is currently facing a winter energy crunch. Prices of natural gas have skyrocketed in recent months, and stockpiles in EU countries are at a five-year low.

Already, oil prices have hit seven-year highs in recent days over the ratcheting tensions between the West and Russia over Ukraine.

Ukraine, which earns more than Poland from gas transit fees, may have to look at ways to diversify its own supplies and rethink its function in the European gas system. Until it does, it will continue to depend on Russia.

Oil, gas and resources companies, and trading desks, are fretting about the provisions around sanctions on Russian extractive industries, financial institutions and banks, Russian leaders and businessmen, and the use of global services, such as wire transfers.

Россия сохраняет позиции крупнейшего поставщика природного газа в Венгрию, ежегодно добросовестно и чётко выполняя принятые на себя контрактные обязательства перед венгерскими партнёрами, подчеркнул вице-премьер в ходе разговора.

На встрече обсуждались концептуальные вопросы по проектам международных договоров о формировании общего рынка газа и общих рынков нефти и нефтепродуктов ЕАЭС.

Объём добычи, обогащения и экспорта угля в России растёт и доля России на мировом рынке угля сегодня составляет 16%.

Small Modular Reactors Day was an international platform for discussing the benefits of Small Modular Reactors, the prospects for their development and how this technology can be applied around the world.

Shipments of Russian crude to the US in 2021 averaged 202,000 b/d, the highest in 11 years. Most of these imports consist of Russian export grades, such as Urals, ESPO Blend and Varandey.

The agreement between Iran and world powers lifted sanctions against Tehran in exchange for restrictions on its atomic activities.

ROSATOM and the Department of Energy (DOE) of the Republic of the Philippines presented a joint action plan to elaborate nuclear power plants (NPP) using the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology through a Pre-Feasibility study.

The TTF day-ahead price hit an all-time high of Eur182.78/MWh on Dec. 21, an increase of 985% year on year,

Saudi Arabia is one of the countries that Rosatom is ready to work with when the kingdom puts out tenders, including to provide the fuel or build the plants, Alexander Voronkov, CEO of Rosatom Middle East & North Africa, told at Rosatom Week being held at EXPO 2020 in Dubai.

Moscow plans to build a new pipeline to China, which could give Russia the power to sell gas to the highest bidder, pitting Chinese and European consumers against one another.

За десятилетия стабильного сотрудничества деловые отношения России и Ирана приобрели многоплановый характер, особенно в сфере энергетики, отметил Александр Новак в ходе встречи.