Brent rose $2.81, or 2.8%, to $101.89 a barrel, WTI touched a high of $95.64 a barrel.

Россия заинтересована в организации поставок природного газа в Пакистан, добавил Александр Новак.

Blocking energy flows and banning Russia from the international financial messaging service SWIFT – two potential responses to Russia's military invasion of Ukraine – remain on the table but were not pursued in the latest sanctions package from the US.

"The European Council today agrees on further restrictive measures that will impose massive and severe consequences on Russia for its action, in close coordination with our partners and allies," the council said.

The Ukraine regulatory body, the counterpart, has earlier informed the IAEA that it is maintaining communications with Ukraine’s operational nuclear power plants, which it said are operating safely and securely.

The TANAP is the central part of the Southern Gas Corridor, which connects the Shah Deniz gas field in Azerbaijan to Europe through the South Caucasus Pipeline (in Azerbaijan and Georgia) and Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP, from Greece to Albania and Italy).

Nigeria, Niger and Algeria have approved a roadmap to develop the 30 bcm/year Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline (TSGP) between Warri in Nigeria to Hassi R’Mel in Algeria, passing through Niger.

The United States aims to instal 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030. At the regional level, New York and New Jersey have set the target of installing 16 GW of offshore wind by 2035.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories increased by 4.5 million barrels from the previous week to 416.0 million barrels.

Brent rose to as much as $103.78 a barrel, WTI jumped $5.48, or 6%, to $97.58 a barrel.

It added that deliveries on Feb. 24 are set at 83 million cubic meters, a 31.4% increase on Feb. 23.

“Welcome to the new world where Europeans will soon have to pay 2,000 euros ($2,270) per thousand cubic meters!” he tweeted – suggesting prices were set to double.

До 2030 года у нас хорошая перспектива по экспорту и Россия должна занять свою долю на растущем международном рынке угля. В 2021 году её доля в международной торговле составила 16,3 %.

Rosatom said it currently controls over 70% of the nulcear power plant export market. In the past few years alone, unique package agreements have been signed for the construction of eight new units in Egypt and China.

The country's installed capacity stood at 99,820 MW at the end of 2021, with 46% of thermal, 32% of hydro, 11% of wind, 8% of solar and 4% of biomass, geothermal, and waste heat.