RUSHYDRO Reported: net profit RUB 51,547 mn – adjusted net profit (-27.1% y-o-y) net profit in 2019 – RUB 643 mn (-98.0% y-o-y) mostly as a result of impairment of property, plant & equipment.

“Conoravirus ... is a short-lived factor which is affecting oil prices ... There will be an OPEC (and non-OPEC) meeting, compensatory measures will be taken which will take the excess oil off the market and the oil price will rebound,” Fedun said.

Bulgaria imports 2.9 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia per year under a long-term contract valid through 2022.

"I want to emphasize, for the Russian budget, for our economy, current oil prices are acceptable. Let me remind you that this year, as part of our macroeconomic policy, we took a Brent crude price of $42.40/b as the base level," Putin said during a meeting on the impact of the coronavirus on the global economy and the oil market with government ministers and representative of oil and gas companies.

Despite heavy lobbying by Saudi Arabia, the 23-country coalition of OPEC and non-OPEC producers has yet to agree on any plans to rein in crude oil production further.

Russian oil output stood at 11.29 million barrels per day (bpd) in February,

Net income attributable to Rosneft shareholders $10.9 bln

2019 AVERAGE DAILY HYDROCARBON PRODUCTION AMOUNTED TO 5.79 MMBOE, WHILE AVERAGE DAILY LIQUIDS PRODUCTION WAS AT 4.67 MMBBL, THE INDICATORS REMAINED AT 2018 LEVEL

Scientists at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Russia) have created a new type of solar panel based on hybrid material consisting of quantum dots (QDs) and photosensitive protein.

Rosatom estimates that the emerging market in nuclear decommissioning services is worth about EUR100 billion out to 2030,

The Dabaa plant is the first nuclear plant for peaceful uses, with a total capacity of 4.8 gigawatts. The project is financially supported by Rosatom through a Russian loan amounting to $25 billion.

RUSHYDRO Reported net profit – RUB 38,645 mn (+5%);

TNK Trading International SA is scheduled to load 14.3 million barrels of Venezuelan crude in the first two months of 2020, compared with 5 million in all of 2019, according to shipping reports compiled by Bloomberg. That may offset any lost oil revenue for the Maduro administration, underscoring the difficulty of shutting Venezuela’s access to the global market.

Unlike the Arctic, which is open to hydrocarbon exploration, the Antarctic's mineral resources, including oil and gas, are protected by amendments to the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, to which Russia is a signatory.

Despite the partial recovery, oil prices are still far below the level many OPEC members need for their budgets to balance.