The halt in deliveries to Italy is the latest disruption to Russian gas flows to Europe after supplies were already halted via the Yamal-Europe and Nord Stream pipelines earlier this year and deliveries via Ukraine sharply curtailed.

According to preliminary data, Gazprom produced 313.3 billion cubic meters of gas from January through September 2022. This is a decrease of 17.1 per cent (or 64.8 billion cubic meters) versus the same period of last year.

Средняя цена на нефть марки Urals в январе-сентябре 2022 года сложилась в размере $80,58 за баррель, в январе-сентябре 2021 года – $65,96 за баррель.

Brent rebounded $2.36, or 2.8%, to $87.50 a barrel, WTI was up 2.9%, or $2.27, at $81.76 a barrel.

The two sides discussed pressing bilateral issues and expressed a mutual commitment to pursue Russian-Bahraini relations in a traditionally friendly, mutually beneficial and constructive manner.

In a spokesman for the Kremlin last week where Europe was threatened about how difficult it would be to face the coming winter.

Benchmark futures declined as much as 5.9%. Ministers supported measures including a power-demand reduction goal and a profit grab from energy companies, and said more was likely this week.

The cap must cover all market revenues of producers and intermediaries participating in electricity wholesale markets, "regardless of the market timeframe in which the transaction takes place and of whether the electricity is traded bilaterally or in a centralized marketplace," the text said.

In their national statements, major nuclear power operating countries such as China, France, Japan, South Korea, the United States of America and Russia all made favourable mention of nuclear power as a reliable and low carbon energy source.

Today, the 3Ds of energy: Decarbonization, Decentralization and Digitalization, are driving the energy transition and the new energy sources and market participants that go along with it.