«Реализация поставленной Президентом задачи по достижению углеродной нейтральности к 2060 году невозможна без сбалансированного развития всех видов генерации, которое, в свою очередь, позволяет избежать дефицита мощности, ценовых скачков, оптимально использовать местные энергетические ресурсы», – подчеркнул Андрей Максимов.

The Brent crude oil spot price will average $79 per barrel (b) in the second half of 2023 (2H23) and $84/b in 2024.

The kingdom’s energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, Opec’s de facto leader, made the move as part of a deal in which several weaker African members will have quotas reduced from next year.

Ожидаемый объем дополнительных нефтегазовых доходов федерального бюджета прогнозируется в июне 2023 года в размере -44,0 млрд руб.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 0.5 million barrels to 459.2 million barrels.

The Worldwide Rig Count for May was 1,783, down 25 from the 1,808 counted in April 2023, and up 155, from the 1,628 counted in May 2022.

Brent rose 34 cents, or 0.46% to $74.62 a barrel, WTI rose 30 cents, or 0.43%, to $70.40.

Last fall, when the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis looked into the world’s 13 “flagship, large-scale” CCS projects, representing about 55% of global carbon capture capacity, it found that seven of the 13 projects underperformed, two failed outright, and one had to be mothballed.

Wind and solar need to be backed up, close to 100 per cent, by some other means of power generation. If that backup is provided by open-cycle gas or worse, coal, net zero will never be achieved: nor anything very close to it.

"For every dollar invested in fossil fuels, about 1.7 dollars are now going into clean energy. Five years ago, this ratio was one-to-one," Birol said.

Voluntary production cuts by some members of OPEC is due this coming month. Russia lifts levy on Oil & Gas firms amid G7 Price cap on Crude Oil.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories increased by 4.5 million barrels to 459.7 million barrels.

Brent fell 30 cents to $75.96 a barrel, WTI was down by 14 cents at $71.69 a barrel.

Earlier this year Russia introduced a voluntary cut of 500,000 b/d from March after EU sanctions on imports of most Russian oil and G7 price caps came into force.

New utility-scale solar capacity was 2,530 megawatts (MW) or 39.56% of the total ... and that does not include small-scale distributed PV systems. New wind capacity provided 1,475-MW or 23.06% of the total.