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Hungary not selling its gas to other EU members

8 July 2022

To deal with the backlash from the embargo it decreed against Russian hydrocarbons, in June the European Union devised a procedure for storing and distributing the fuel amassed by those countries that were granted a temporary waiver, allowing them to continue to buy directly from Russia. (...)

Sakhalin-1 oil production collapse

8 July 2022

Oil and gas production at the Sakhalin-1 project (Russian Far East) collapsed after Exxon-Mobil and Shell pulled out due to the unilateral Western sanctions.
It plummeted 220,000 barrels per day to just 10,000, that is 22 times less.
The recorded loss amounts to 38 billion rubles. It is (...)

Severe US energy crisis

16 May 2022

According to Oil and Gas Association President Tim Stewart, the United States is in the throes of the worst energy crisis in the last 50 years.
Diesel and gasoline prices are at an all-time high and inventories are at historic lows.
The association points out that the Biden Administration has (...)

Saudi Arabia-US relations going to pieces

14 May 2022

The appointment of Michael Ratney as new US ambassador to Saudi Arabia has been read by Riyadh as proof of Washington’s disinterest in the Saudi monarchy. Mr. Ratney is a civilian, when in fact the Quincy Pact - concluded in 1945 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the founder of the Saudi (...)

Gazprom winds up operations in Germany

6 April 2022

Russian giant Gazprom, the largest gas extraction and trading company in the world, halted all its activities in Germany as of 1 April 2022.
Before Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, Gazprom operated the Nord Stream gas pipeline and supervised the construction of a second gas pipeline, Nord (...)

France to pay for Russian gas in rubles

1 April 2022

While speaking, on 1 April 2022, before a parliamentary hearing of the Social Affairs Commission, French Minister of the Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili indicated that French companies will continue to pay for Russian gas in euros, in accodance with their contracts...
The fact remains (...)

Russian gas to be sold in rubles

23 March 2022

President Vladimir Putin has announced that from now on Russian gas will have to be paid for not in dollars or euros, but exclusively in rubles.
The European Union will either have to violate its own economic embargo or stop buying Russian gas, causing a severe recession in its (...)

Washington wants to stop the energy speculation it brought about

17 March 2022

On 2 March 2022, the International Energy Agency (IEA) agreed to sell 60 million barrels of oil in order to lower the price of energy on the global market.
The Biden administration commits to release 30 million barrels of crude from its strategic reserve.
The result of this tender procedure (...)

Rising tensions (9)

"A gang of drug addicts and neo-nazis"

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 5 March 2022

By evoking "a gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis" in power in Kiev, President Putin has shocked many. The Atlanticist press tried to present him as a mental patient. However, the facts are there: the power in Ukraine is verily occupied by a bunch of drug addicts who stole the gas revenues. A (...)

Qatar operating against Russia

31 January 2022

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, is to meet President Joe Biden at the White House on 31 January 2021.
The two men will look into the possibilities of exporting Qatari gas to Europe in order to forestall the implementation of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
Qatar, a "major [US] (...)

Lebanon to receive gas supplies from Israel?

17 January 2022

On 15 January 2022, Israel’s Channel 12 News reported that a secret agreement to supply natural gas to energy-starved Lebanon had been signed between the Israeli and Lebanese governments. This may enable Lebanon to come out, at least partially, of its critical electricity crisis.
Negotiations (...)

Taliban greenlight construction of trans-Afghan gas pipeline

30 August 2021

Photo: 18 August 2021 meeting in Mazar-i-Sharif between Turkmen and Taliban representatives.
The Taliban have confirmed their willingness to build the TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India) gas pipeline which would export Turkmen gas for the development of Central Asia.
This project (...)

Naval war between Israel and Iran

9 April 2021

For three years, the Shayetet 13 (Flotilla 13), a top secret Israeli Special Forces unit, has been carrying out sabotage operations on Iranian ships bound for Syria. They mainly use landmines fastened to their target, but also the tactical nuclear weapon that they later used to destroy the port (...)

President Biden Invites 40 World Leaders to Leaders Summit on Climate

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 26 March 2021

Today, President Biden invited 40 world leaders to the Leaders Summit on Climate he will host on April 22 and 23. The virtual Leaders Summit will be live streamed for public viewing.
President Biden took action his first day in office to return the United States to the Paris Agreement. Days (...)

Nord Stream 2 and Potential Sanctionable Activity

by Antony Blinken

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 18 March 2021

As the President has said, Nord Stream 2 is a bad deal — for Germany, for Ukraine, and for our Central and Eastern European allies and partners. The Department is tracking efforts to complete the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and is evaluating information regarding entities that appear to be involved. (...)

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