Olga Tanas

End of #Russia's #gas transit through #Ukraine "really represents the end of an era that has been slowly simmering,” said Margarita Balmaceda, international relations professor at Seton Hall University, who specializes in energy politics of ex-USSR states. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#Russia produced 8.983m b/d of crude #oil in August. That's down 62k b/d from July levels and only about 5k b/d above Moscow’s output target in the agreement with the #OPEC+. The extra barrels represent less than 0.06% of the nation’s output in August. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#Russia plans to raise its 2024 #LNG exports by 1.9 million tons, or around 30 cargoes. With two major LNG plants already operating above design capacity, at least a half of those volumes would have to come from Arctic LNG 2, show Bloomberg calculations. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Putin expanded his energy commission to include the nation’s military chief, the head of the security service that succeeded the Soviet-era KGB. "Siloviki" join the commission as #Russia's #oil and #gas industry faces unprecedented pressure amid sanctions bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#Russia’s crude #oil exports to #Hungary and #Slovakia via Ukraine rose significantly in early September, with Tatneft and other producers replacing sanctioned Lukoil’s barrels. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The Russian government’s revenues from taxes on #oil and #gas surged by a fifth in August from a year ago following soaring prices of the nation’s crude and higher gas flows to foreign markets.

#Russia's Gazprom Group more than tripled its net income to 1.04 trillion rubles in 1H thanks to higher pipeline #gas exports, robust #oil sales and its purchase of Shell Plc’s former stake in the Sakhalin-2 project bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#Russia's Novatek-led Arctic #LNG 2 project, sanctioned by the US in November, processed ~28.7mcm of #gas last month. That’s 3.5 times more than June and the highest level in three months, comparisons with historic data show. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#Russia’s crude #oil exports to #Hungary and #Slovakia via Ukraine remained within normal levels in July despite Kyiv’s sanctions on Lukoil, as Tatneft stepped in to replace the bulk of the missing barrels. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A small fleet of tug vessels towing a second production train has approached Novatek-led Arctic #LNG 2 plant on Saturday, signaling #Russia's gas producer is pushing ahead with an expansion project despite Western energy sanctions. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#Russia and #Ukraine have no intention of halting #gas flows via Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk region even as fighting continues near a key cross-border transit point for the fuel. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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#Russia's exporter Gazprom said #gas transit via the Sudzha intake point near the border with #Ukraine is set at 37.3 million cubic meter per day on Thursday. That's slightly lower than the usual range seen in recent months bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#Russia produced 9.045m b/d of #oil in July, said people familiar with data from the Energy Ministry. That’s down 33k b/d from June and about 67k b/d above Moscow’s output target in the agreement with #OPEC+ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“#OPEC+ production ceilings, current and expected, serve as a damper on production growth and limit the amount of capital Russian #oil companies deem reasonable to spend on drilling,” said @SergeyVakulenk0. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“Not since the Cold War has there been a similar number of individuals exchanged in this way, and there has never, so far as we know, been an exchange involving so many countries,” #US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said. #Russia bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#Russia was close to becoming the biggest #LNG supplier to Europe in July after US flows declined amid an outage and higher prices in Asia. The gap in deliveries to western Europe is now the smallest since late 2021. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#Russia's Arctic #LNG 2 plant processed slightly more than 8 million cubic meters of gas in June, according to a person with knowledge of industry data. That’s nearly half of the runs in May, a comparison with past figures shows. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#Russia produced 345.8 billion cubic meters of #gas in January-June, up by 8.2% from the same period a year ago, show calculations based on industrial output data from nation's statistic service. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…