Moscow (AFP) Sept 26, 2013 - A Russian court on Thursday began considering whether to prolong the detention of 30 Greenpeace activists suspected of piracy after they held a high seas protest on an Arctic oil platform.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 29, 2013 - A Russian court on Sunday ordered the detention for two months of eight more crew members of a Greenpeace ship who protested against Arctic oil drilling as part of a probe into alleged piracy.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 23, 2013 - Russian border guards were on Monday towing a ship of the environmental lobby group Greenpeace to an Arctic port where its activists could face charges for a protest on an oil rig owned by the Gazprom energy giant.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 6, 2023 - Russia said on Wednesday it will soon finalise its side of the route for the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, a huge project to deliver more natural gas to China.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 19, 2007 - Russia will stop the practice of gas flaring, in which unwanted gas is burned as it is released from oilfields, acting deputy prime minister Sergei Ivanov said on Wednesday.
Samarkand, Uzbekistan (AFP) Sept 15, 2022 - A Russian pipeline to China will replace the Nord Stream 2 gas link to Europe, abandoned amid the Ukraine conflict, Moscow's Energy Minister Alexander Novak said Thursday.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 17, 2008 - Russia must formally set its borders in the oil-rich Arctic region in the near future, President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday amid an international race for the region's reserves.
Jakarta (AFP) Sept 6, 2022 - Russia is burning excess gas because it has no capacity to store it after cutting deliveries to the European Union, the bloc's energy commissioner said Tuesday.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 01, 2014 - Russia launched construction Monday of a 770 billion ruble ($20.8 bn) gas pipeline that will help bring gas from the far east of the country to China.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 24, 2013 - Russia opened a criminal probe Tuesday into suspected piracy by both foreign and local activists from environmental lobby group Greenpeace who staged a protest at sea over Arctic oil exploration by energy giant Gazprom.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 19, 2006 - A top Russian official demanded compromises Tuesday from a Shell-led group operating the world's largest private oil and gas project, a day after the state abruptly forced the group to stop work. Compromises must be sought on Sakhalin-2, Economic and Trade Minister German Gref said, quoted by RIA Novosti news agency, referring to a 20-billion-dollar (15.8-billion-euro) oil and gas project off Russia's Pacific Coast.
Beijing (AFP) Sept 27, 2010 - The leaders of China and Russia celebrated Monday the completion of a cross-border oil pipeline, a symbol of growing ties between the two emerging economic powers, particularly in the energy sector.
Beijing (AFP) Sept 2, 2025 - Russia said Tuesday it had signed a legally binding agreement with China to build a new cross-border gas pipeline, the latest in a series of moves by the allies to bolster ties.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 22, 2010 - Moscow and Beijing have agreed on key supply terms for future Russian gas deliveries to China, which is seeking to secure energy resources to fuel its growing economy, Gazprom said on Wednesday.
Lisbon (AFP) Sept 02, 2013 - Portugal said Monday it will press the United Nations to let it expand its control over the waters around the uninhabited Savage Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, a move opposed by Spain.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 27, 2014 - Russia's state-owned Rosneft said Saturday it had found oil in the Kara Sea off the north coast of Siberia in a joint drilling project with US oil giant ExxonMobil.
