Moscow says it does not want a “gas war” with Ukraine like the one in 2009 which led to supply disruptions in many European countries before the current agreement was signed.

"I can confirm the Pioneering Spirit is currently installing the pipeline in Danish waters," the Allseas spokesman said.

Renewable energy sources alone are not capable of fully decarbonising the economy, but they can complement nuclear energy in achieving this goal. The nuclear industry, led by World Nuclear Association, has set the Harmony goal for nuclear energy to provide 25% of global electricity by 2050. This will require trebling nuclear generation from its present level.

«Сегодня историческое событие для России и Китая. „Восточный“ маршрут, „Сила Сибири“ — это глобальный, стратегически значимый и взаимовыгодный проект. Новая орбита сотрудничества двух стран в энергетике с перспективой дальнейшего развития. Чистая энергия сегодня и в будущем, на десятилетия вперед», — сказал Алексей Миллер.

Russia has begun gas supplies to China via the Power of Siberia pipeline, the largest gas project in its history and a symbol of Moscow’s diplomatic pivot towards Beijing at a time of worsening relations with the west.

They believe relentless US oil production growth will slow rapidly next year.

In total, the Saudi government plans to sell 0.5% of Aramco to individual investors and the remainder to domestic institutions and international firms registered in the kingdom, known as qualified foreign investors.

Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and ADNOC Group CEO, highlighted during his speech at the meeting that the vision of the UAE leadership established a long-term forward-looking vision for the future of energy and oil aiming to enhance the leading and advanced standing of the UAE in the sector. He shed light on the qualitative leap achieved by ADNOC for institutional development and modernization by the adoption of innovation and technology aims to continue to contribute to the achievement of the leadership vision by diversifying sources of income and investment in national talent and business sustainability and shaping the future.

Al Mazrouei led a UAE economic delegation comprised of government and private sectors' officials in a two-day visit to Sudan where they explored paths of cementing bilateral relations in areas of trade, investment, energy, mining, electricity, infrastructure and agriculture.

The essential role of natural gas in the attainment of UN Sustainable Development Goals, in particular Goal 7, as an environmentally friendly, affordable, reliable, accessible and flexible natural resource for ensuring economic development and social progress

The ‘Power of Siberia’ pipeline, due to open on Dec. 2, will pipe natural gas around 3,000 km (1,865 miles) from Russia’s Siberian fields to the fading industrial region, which has lagged the push to gas in China’s south and east.

With oil and gas as core of the cooperation between the two countries, China is currently eyeing new opportunities to join Qatar's upstream and downstream LNG industry in addition to plans of increasing its LNG imports from Qatar, while Chinese companies are tapping Qatar Petroleum (QP) to enter China's upstream energy industry and gain access to a 1.4 billion people market, China's Ambassador to Qatar, Zhou Jian, said at a press conference at his residence

The meeting was focused on the current issues of cooperation between the companies. Particular attention was paid to natural gas deliveries. The parties noted the contribution of the Nord Stream gas pipeline to the reliability and safety of gas supplies to consumers in Germany and Europe.

The Turkish and Azeri presidents on Saturday inaugurated the Europe link of the strategic Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP).

The parties discussed Russian-Ukrainian cooperation in the gas sector, including the settling of mutual claims related to the execution of contracts, the terms of transiting Russian gas to Europe from 2020 onward, and the outlook for direct purchases of Russian gas for Ukrainian consumers.