Oil exporters in the Middle East and North Africa region will lose $192 billion in crude income in 2020

Rosneft entered into an agreement with a company 100%-owned by the Russian government on the sale of shares and termination of its participation in all projects in Venezuela,

Russia ramped up measures to combat the virus on Wednesday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin announcing that next week would be a paid non-working week throughout the country.

Some US shale producers have been pressuring the Trump administration to intervene in the price war, which broke out after Russia earlier this month declined to go along with an OPEC proposal for production cuts to prop up prices.

China is saving about $250mn a day after crude prices crashed this year amid dual demand and supply shocks.

Significant volumes of Russian gas currently are transited to Germany via Poland, which are a key revenue generator for the country.

State-owned oil and gas major Gazprom announced on February 20 it is looking to produce hydrogen from natural gas.

nine Republican senators asked the Department of Commerce to launch an anti-dumping case against Saudi Arabia following its price war with Russia.

Alexey Likhachev, Director General of ROSATOM met with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed in the People's Republic of Bangladesh. During the meeting, the Parties discussed issues of bilateral cooperation while development and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

In April, Russia may fully return to production levels reached before the OPEC+ deal in October 2018, Novak said.