MOSCOW. June 5 (Interfax) - Gazprom , together with Gazprom Neft , remained the second biggest oil and gas condensate producer in Russia in 2024, Gazprom said in its draft annual report.

ASTANA. June 5 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan has started to build a plant in the Atyrau region to fractionate liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from the Kashagan field, the Energy Ministry said.

ASTANA. June 5 (Interfax) - Five banks in Kazakhstan have joined the National Bank's pilot project to launch crypto cards, National Bank governor Timur Suleimenov said. The participating banks are ...

MOSCOW. June 5 (Interfax) - Russia's gas consumption grew 5.2% from 495.6 billion cubic meters in 2023 to 521.5 bcm in 2024, Gazprom said in an annual report. "Gas consumption rose as weather ...

MOSCOW. June 5 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian government will shortly request the Verkhovna Rada to revise the 2025 state budget due to new needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Ukrainian media reported, ...

MINSK. June 5 (Interfax) - The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Council of the Heads of Government will hold its next meeting in Minsk, Belarus, on September 30, the Belarusian state-run news ...

MOSCOW. June 5 (Interfax) - Net losses of Ukraine's export linked to the European Union's restoring the pre-crisis trade regime on June 6 will reach about $800 million in June-December 2025, Ukrainian ...

VANINO. June 5 (Interfax) - JSC Daltransugol (DTU), a coal terminal at the port of Vanino managed by JSC Port Alliance, has completed a project to expand the terminal's capacity to 32.8 million tonnes ...

BAKU. June 5 (Interfax) - Production of the first gas in the second phase of development at the Absheron field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea is planned for late 2028 to early 2029, ...

In mid-April, the NBU also kept the key policy rate at the level of 15.5% after increasing it three times since mid-December 2024. Even earlier, it maintained it at 15% for six months after it was ...

"The complexity of the budget declaration issue is now due to the fact that we would need to reduce the GDP deficit from this year's 19.4% to 9.9% next year in accordance with the IMF program. It is a ...

Gazprom boosted gas supplies to Uzbekistan to 5.64 billion cubic meters in 2024 from 1.28 bcm in 2023, the company said in its annual report. The company began exporting gas to Uzbekistan in October ...