Fuel and energy

The fate of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will be decided in the coming weeks or months.

Future US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken promised to use «any convincing tool» to do this.

The Ministry of Energy has already agreed on this proposal with colleagues from the Ministry of Economic Development.

As RIA Novosti reports with reference to the widespread statement, the German regulator of the Nord Stream 2 project - the Federal Office of Maritime Shipping and Hydrography of Germany - has extended the permit for pipe-laying work for Nord Stream 2 until May.

According to the Danish newspaper Politiken, the threat of serious US sanctions forced the consulting firm Rambøll to refuse to participate in the last part of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project.

As the KazTransOil company informs, Kazakhstan has resumed oil transit through Russia, oil pumping in the Atyrau-Samara section of the Uzen-Atyrau-Samara main oil pipeline has been fully restored.

This was reported by the adviser to the press secretary of the Russian energy company Transneft, Igor Dyomin.

The prices are affected by optimistic forecasts for supply and demand for fuel.

The parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern voted for the initiative of the regional government to create a special institution named Foundation for Climate and Environment Protection.

The pipe-laying vessel Akademik Chersky, having stood for almost a month not far from Kaliningrad, has returned to the unfinished section of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

According to the head of the Ukrainian GTS Operator, Sergei Makogon, Gazprom has reduced gas transit through Ukraine from about 180 million cubic meters per day at the end of December 2020 to about 130 million cubic meters per day at the beginning of January 2021.

According to Russian experts, OPEC + 's decision on the parameters of the deal for February and March will have a positive effect on the oil market, as it reduces the likelihood of its return to oversupply and should support oil prices.

Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei said that production has started at Fordow nuclear facility.

Ministers of OPEC+ countries meet to determine the level of oil production for February.

According to Alexander Novak, the US sanctions against the project are nothing but open protectionism aimed at promoting American liquefied natural gas on the European market.