Russia is offering more oil to India at a discount of as much as $35 a barrel on prices before the Ukraine war
But Russia does not have an alternative market to deliver its natural gas to, so stopping flows would also hit its income
India also gets offer of rupee-ruble-denominated payments
Analysts expect the group, known as OPEC+, to stay on its schedule of gradual increases to restore production cuts made during the depths of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that European partners can continue paying for Russian gas in euros, a government statement said
Russia is offering India steep discounts on the direct sale of oil as mounting international pressure lowers the appetite for its barrels elsewhere, Bloomberg reports
A significant increase in Russian oil imports by India could expose New Delhi to a "great risk" as the US prepares to step up enforcement of sanctions against Moscow, a senior official said
A Russian oil company used to provide a workaround to U.S. oil trading sanctions on Venezuela is scrabbling to avoid another set of sanctions, documents show
With Western sanctions hitting Russia's dollar-based trading, there is focus on Moscow's efforts to switch to other currencies
U.S. oil exports have climbed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and barrels of domestic oil are instead being exported via the Gulf Coast, traders said
Brent crude fell $1.29, or 1.1%, to $117.74 a barrel at 1049 GMT and U.S
The US and European Union announced a new partnership to reduce the continent's reliance on Russian energy, the start of a years-long initiative to further isolate Moscow after invasion of Ukraine.
The European Union preserved a sense of rarely seen unity through four rounds of unprecedented sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine
Scores of Russian billionaires got sanctioned by the EU and the UK after the Kremlin started its war against Ukraine
Indian companies' value of investments in Russia's oil and gas fields could be impaired as import bans and international sanctions may constraint future cash flow generating capacity: Moody's
Benchmark Brent was up 0.3% at $121.95 a barrel by 1111 GMT, after falling by close to $2 earlier in the session
Indian Oil Corp, the country's top refiner, on Wednesday bought 3 million barrels of Russian Urals and 2 million barrels of West African oil through a tender for May loading
In an effort to prop up the value of the ruble that plunged post the massive sanctions, Russia's Putin announced that the "unfriendly countries" must use rubles to buy the Russian oil and gas.
Urals crude has been purchased from trader Vitol on delivered basis at a "discount", they said
Indian private refiner Nayara Energy, part-owned by Russia's Rosneft, has purchased Russian oil after a Urals a year, buying about 1.8 million barrels of Urals from trader Trafigura