The slide in crude prices and recovery in economic activity late March had encouraged Chinese buyers to pile their shopping carts with all kinds of cheap crude,

China intends to cap its coal-fired power capacity at 1,100 GW and the number of coal mines at 5,000

The blue-chip FTSE 100 was down 0.2% and the mid-cap FTSE 250 0.1%, led by declines in battered energy , banks and travel and leisure stocks.

U.S. Rig Count is down 13 rigs from last week to 266, Canada Rig Count is down 4 rigs from last week to 17

Brent rose 61 cents, or 1.5%, to $42.12 a barrel, WTI climbed 60 cents, or 1.5%, to $39.44 a barrel.

Средняя цена на нефть Urals за период мониторинга с 15 мая по 14 июня 2020 года составила $37,556 за баррель

European industry and refineries already use roughly 8 million tonnes of hydrogen each year, but most of this is “grey” hydrogen, a version made from natural gas in a process that produces planet-warming emissions.

ROSATOM signed Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with Framatome SAS (France) and GE Steam Power in the framework of the strategic investor selection procedure for the Belene Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Bulgaria.

The dollar traded near a two-week high against a basket of currencies

Brent were up 2 cents at $40.73 a barrel, WTI dropped 14 cents to $37.82 a barrel.

Постепенно в мире улучшается ситуация со спросом на нефть и нефтепродукты, отметил глава Минэнерго России.

Министр подчеркнул, что в России сформирован диверсифицированный энергетический баланс, в нем присутствуют все виды производства энергии, что позволяет развивать все сектора, включая возобновляемые источники энергии.

World oil demand is projected to decrease by 9.1 mb/d in 2020, unchanged from the previous month’s assessment. The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected global economic activities, eliminating global oil demand growth potential and leading to a y-o-y decline of 6.4 mb/d in 1Q20 and by 17.3 mb/d y-o-y in 2Q20.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories (excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) increased by 1.2 million barrels from the previous week. At 539.3 million barrels, U.S. crude oil inventories are about 15% above the five year average for this time of year.

Nord Stream 2 has asked -- as a precautionary measure -- for an amendment to its Danish pipelaying permit to allow the potential use of pipelay ships that use anchors for positioning.