Brent were 68 cents higher at $58.97 a barrel, WTI were up by 70 cents to $52.84 a barrel

Gazprom supplied its first billion cubic meters of gas via the TurkStream gas pipeline.

В ходе встречи стороны обсудили широкий спектр вопросов взаимодействия России с Израилем, в том числе в энергетике. Было отмечено, что по итогам 2019 года товарооборот между странами превысил 5 млрд долларов, из которых половина пришлась на энергетический сектор.

Siberian Chemical Combine (SCC) has completed acceptance tests of its ETVS-22, ETVS-23 and ETVS-24 experimental fuel assemblies with mixed uranium-plutonium (nitride) nuclear fuel for fast neutron reactors. Based in Seversk, SCC is a subsidiary of TVEL, the nuclear fuel manufacturing subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom.

Значительная часть территории Российской Федерации находится в области значительных (наблюдаемых и прогнозируемых) изменений климата, а последствия этих изменений оказывают существенное и усиливающееся воздействие на социально-экономическое развитие страны, условия жизни и здоровье людей, а также на состояние объектов экономики.

Russia is poised to officially open its TurkStream natural gas pipeline on Wednesday, further diversifying export routes to Europe amid a backlash from the U.S.

The first Russian-made nuclear fuel assemblies with experimental accident-tolerant fuel rods (ATF) for commercial reactor have been manufactured and passed acceptance inspection at Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant, a fabrication facility of ROSATOM’s TVEL Fuel Company.

Last week, Russia and Ukraine announced the terms of a new gas transit deal under which Moscow will supply Europe for at least five years via its former Soviet neighbor and pay a $2.9 billion settlement to Kiev to end a legal dispute.

“Of course we will finish building (the pipeline)... Gazprom has alternative options for how to lay it. It will take a little more time, but that’s no big deal,” Medvedev told journalists, adding that it could take a couple more months.

Gazprom is showing that the strategy chosen for 2020 -- and potentially over the longer term -- is to defend its market share in Europe by flooding the Continent with cheap gas, send alternative sources of supply, in particular LNG, out of the money, traders told