Reagan Administration Warned Russian Pipeline through Ukraine Would Weaken WestByline: Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - Special to The Washington TimesANALYSIS:In a memo to the White House in July 1981, advisers in the Ronald Reagan administration urged opposition to a new pipeline from Russia's oil- and ...
TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) – Ukraine’s state oil pipeline operator Ukrtransnafta has stopped pumping Russian crude to the EU through the southern branch of the Druzhba pipeline. The Russian oil pipeline giant Transneft confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that Ukrtransnafta, a company which provide...
Ukraine stopped the transit through the pipeline supplying Russian oil to Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic on Tuesday. Kiev informed Russia’s Transneft that service was suspended due to a“drop in voltage,”the Russian oil giant said at that time. The move came in the wake of a R...
While welcoming a decision to exempt pipeline oil, the prime minister insisted that guarantees were required that his country's supply of Russian oil would be protected if something happened to the pipeline -- which passes through Ukraine to Hungary. He said there was no clear compromise on this...
The Kremlin has been discussing Donald Trump's claims that a meeting between him and Vladimir Putin is being set up. Meanwhile, Russian elites are concerned with Vladimir Putin's efforts to wage a full-scale war in Ukraine. Submit your questions for our
A large portion of Russian oil bound for Western Europe passes through Ukraine. And twice in the past decade, in 2006 and 2009, Russia has turned off natural gas shipments to Ukraine duringdisputes over gas prices. That in turncreated shortagesin some EU member nations. ...
The import ban will give companies involved in the oil trade with Russia – such as these refiners – 45 days to wind down their contracts with Russian energy suppliers. Figuring that something like this might be coming, US companies have alrea...
Even without a build-up of Russian forces on Ukraine’s border and US warnings of painful sanctions if tanks rumble across, the world’s oil and gas producers have struggled to meet global demand, pushing crude prices to their highest since 2014 and driving European gas prices to stratospheri...
He said the sanctions package must "be agreed on, it needs to be effective, including (on) oil," so that Moscow "feels the price for what it is doing against Ukraine" and the rest of Europe. Only then, Zelenskyy said, will Russia be forced to "start seeking peace." ...
The environmental movement needs a reset, and so does Massachusetts policy. The real-world result of pipeline absolutism in Massachusetts this winter has been to steer energy customers to dirtier fuels like coal and oil, increasing greenhouse gas emissions. And the state ...