Tagged With Russia
19 June 2025
The strategic importance of vast untapped oil and gas reserves and key shipping routes has come in from the cold
13 June 2025
The two oil heavyweights’ diverging fiscal considerations are straining unity within the group
5 June 2025
Russia has ample spare gas, and Iran needs it, but sanctions and pricing pose steep hurdles.
5 June 2025
EU half measures over storage regulation, geopolitical risks to ending Russian gas, power outage questions and China’s LNG resale leverage make for a challenging path ahead.
5 October 2021
The energy transition is increasing the risk of huge discoveries becoming stranded indefinitely
21 January 2021
At a time when many IOCs are shunning large-scale investments in oil extraction, Russia’s biggest oil producer is pressing ahead with perhaps its largest ever undertaking
12 November 2020
Reducing gas flaring can both accelerate progress to net-zero and offer a swift boost to industry credibility
27 August 2020
Sechin confirms drilling has restarted in the Russian Arctic shelf, despite high costs and ongoing sanctions
13 August 2020
The Russian oil firm has added more reserves to its ambitious Vostok Oil project
21 July 2020
More-challenging reserves are expected to account for an increasing share of the country’s production over the coming decades
24 April 2020
Yamalo-Nenets joint venture with Gazprom Neft falls victim to capex cuts
23 April 2020
Record low oil prices are compelling the state to consider proration. But greater measures may be needed to stave off financial ruin
2 April 2020
Oil producers in the country have relatively low upstream costs and greenfield projects ready to roll
16 January 2020
The country’s 2019 production reached a further post-Soviet high, marking another year Moscow fell short of cuts promised to its Opec partners
12 December 2019
Challenges and costs increase as ageing oil fields reach the ‘babushka’ stage
28 November 2019
Expanding the use of enhanced oil recovery methods could offset output declines
23 August 2019
The Russian producer looks on track to achieve its production growth targets
26 February 2019
Strategic investments from Rosneft have unclogged Kurdistan's messy export scene, paving the way for supplies to Turkey in the early 2020s
1 February 2019
Producers profit from post-devaluation oil prices—but oil fields are depleting
14 December 2018
Russia ramped up production in 2018, with Arctic developments playing a major role
1 May 2018
Closer Russia-Saudi relations could bring new investment
24 April 2018
The Russian firm had stellar production growth of late, but it urgently needs to find new resources
24 April 2018
The government is considering supplying high-sulphur crude in a separate stream to improve Urals export quality
6 March 2018
New oil finds and melting ice are helping to reignite interest in the region
30 January 2018
Unless oil prices surge, drilling activity will remain subdued next year. Any increase will breed cost inflation
26 October 2017
Eastern Siberia will be the engine for rising Russian oil and gas output for decades
21 September 2017
The Bazhenov deposit holds a lot of oil, but a repeat of the American shale bonanza is by no means imminent
1 September 2017
Russia's greenfields hold abundant cheap reserves. How long can its companies resist the cash flow they offer?
15 May 2017
Rosneft and Novatek are biting at Gazprom's heels in the domestic market. Its focus is international
8 May 2017
The country’s producers have been cutting output in the first two quarters of 2017, but their guidance to investors is for a reversal in the second half
