Benchmark futures rose as much as 16%, also driving up electricity prices to fresh records. The key Nord Stream pipeline will stop for three days of maintenance on Aug. 31, again raising concerns that the link won’t return to service as planned after the works.

There is no indication that such orderly liquidations would be offset by orderly installation of replacement facilities,

Рассмотрен ход подготовки проекта международного договора о формировании общего рынка газа Евразийского экономического союза.

Subsoil use contracts are agreements with the Kazakh government covering the production of uranium by in-situ leach methods.

Preliminary production figures for July 2022 show an average daily production of 1 876 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate.

U.S. Rig Count is down 1 from last week to 762, Canada Rig Count is unchanged from last week at 201

Brent fell 36 cents, or 0.4%, to $96.23 a barrel, WTI was at $90.29 a barrel, down 21 cents.

Europe is engulfed in an energy crisis fanned by limited supplies from Russia, as well as increased demand amid recovery from the pandemic and a hot and dry summer that has increased the need for cooling.

Gas markets in Europe jumped 6 per cent on Wednesday to €236 a megawatt hour, taking the week’s gains so far to 14 per cent. The latest price was equivalent in energy terms to almost $400 a barrel of oil,

“The still high increase in consumer prices and the expected additional costs for heating and electricity are currently having a particularly negative impact on the prospects for the consumer-related sectors of the economy,” said Michael Schröder, a researcher at the ZEW.