Россия и Австрия достигли положительных результатов по вопросу строительства газопровода «Северный поток – 2». По мнению вице-канцлера Австрии, проект «Северный поток — 2», по которому российский газ будет поставляться в Германию по дну Балтийского моря, позволит надежнее обеспечивать Европу газом.

Such a strategy may be economically rational for Gazprom: already-low prices in the European gas market mean it could relatively easily push prices to a level at which it would be unprofitable to ship LNG from the US — and in doing so defend its market share in a region which accounts for the bulk of its profits.

Efficient joint efforts in the assets’ management enabled to reach remarkable increase of hydrocarbon production volumes both at brownfields and greenfields. Well-elaborated investment strategy provides favorable financial outcome from joint projects despite the challenging macroeconomic environment.

Rosneft and General Electric signed a long-term cooperation program.

Medvedev also downplayed an expected influx of liquefied natural gas to Europe from the United States, saying Gazprom's gas would be cheaper.

«У нас есть задача сохранения традиционных рынков в Европе. При этом увеличением поставок на Восток тоже надо заниматься, это правильный вектор, и мы, безусловно, будем его поддерживать»,

“Everything is possible in theory. It was possible a year ago, a month ago. Nothing new has happened. This frenzy is idiotic. It stems from the fact that people can’t read.”

“Co-ordination between Russia and Opec has been discussed in the past and has always come to nothing, and it would be a shock if any different outcome occurred this time,” says James Henderson at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

Участники совещания обсудили возможность координации действий со странами ОПЕК в связи с неблагоприятной ценовой конъюнктурой на мировом нефтяном рынке.

Crude's collapse from $100 a barrel since mid-2014 has already pummeled Russia, which relies on energy for about half its budget revenues and 40 percent of its exports. The latest slide compounds the problems facing President Vladimir Putin ahead of elections in 2018.

Russia announced state aid for a major energy project on Wednesday under a drive to shore up strategic firms as well as public faith in its banking system during an economic crisis deepened by Western sanctions.