DUBAI/DOHA, March 19 (Reuters) - Iran’s attacks on Qatar have damaged facilities that produce 17% of the company’s liquefied natural gas export capacity and it will take three to five years to repair them, QatarEnergy CEO Saad al-Kaabi told Reuters in an interview. @mahaeldahan
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI(Reuters)-India, a leading importer of fertilisers, is in talks to increase purchases from Russia, Belarus and Morocco as Middle East tensions and China's export curbs risk tightening supplies ahead of the summer planting season - government and industry sources
NEW DELHI, March 19 (Reuters) - Russia will continue to supply energy at market prices without any consideration for Western sanctions and will offer mutually acceptable payment practices, Russian Deputy Energy Minister Pavel Sorokin told Reuters on Thursday.
Took me a month to get around to reading this, but here Der Spiegel reports that the CIA had very early knowledge of Ukraine's secret op to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline, and officials even hinted US support before Washington tried to stop the whole thing.
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We're still a long way from Seymour Hersh's claim that the Americans and Norwegians carried out the bombing themselves, but his fantastical tale nevertheless seems less inaccurate than the early-days suspicion that Russia bombed its own pipeline.
March 19 (Reuters) - Oil giant Saudi Aramco's SAMREF refinery in the Red Sea port of Yanbu was targeted in an aerial attack on Thursday, an industry source said, adding there was minimal impact
MOSCOW, March 19 (Reuters) - Peace talks between the United States, Russia and Ukraine are on pause amid the Iran war, Izvestia reported on Thursday, citing Russian officials.
March 19 (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on Thursday, with benchmark Brent rising as much as $5 a barrel, after Iran attacked energy facilities across the Middle East following a strike on the South Pars gas field, a major escalation in the war with the United States and Israel.
MOSCOW, March 18 (Reuters) - Russians on Wednesday received notifications from some mobile phone companies saying that mobile internet was temporarily down in parts of Moscow, Reuters reporters said.