The EU's executive arm moved Wednesday to jump-start plans for the 27-nation bloc to abandon Russian energy amid the Kremlin's war in Ukraine, proposing a nearly 300 billion-euro ($315 billion)
While Europeans bask in the warmth of spring, governments are in a race against winter.
The German government's new plan seeks to encourage all segments of society to use energy more efficiently in order to reduce the country's dependence on Russian fossil fuels by next winter.
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil hit its highest in seven weeks on Tuesday, supported by the European Union's ongoing push for a ban on Russian oil imports that would tighten supply and as investors focused on higher demand from an easing of China's COVID lockdowns.
Russia's share in India's oil purchases rose to a record 6%, about 277,000 barrels per day (bpd) in April, up from about 66,000 bpd in March, when it was in 10th position
Natural gas prices rose Friday after Russian state-owned exporter Gazprom said it would no longer send supplies to Europe, citing new sanctions that Moscow imposed on European energy companies.
Italy will face short-term energy supply problems if Russia opts to cut gas sales to the country, Italian Ecological Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani has said.
Russia's Rosneft sold 700,000 tonnes of Urals oil loading from Baltic ports of Primorsk and Ust-Luga in May to Indian Oil Corp (IOC), the country's top refiner
The European Biogas Association says the European Union could quickly scale up the production of bio-methane, which is pumped into natural gas networks
Because the economics and logistics don't work out for Indian refiners to accept larger volumes
The sanctions proposal, which was announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and needs unanimous backing by the 27 EU countries to take effect
Germany's dependency on Russian oil is currently 15 percent, said President Frank Walter Steinmeier on Wednesday
The European Union, the biggest buyer of Russian energy, on Wednesday proposed phasing out imports of Russian crude within six months and refined products by end-2022
India is trying to get deeper discounts on Russian oil to compensate for the risk of dealing with the OPEC+ producer as other buyers turn away, according to people with knowledge of the matter
The EU will also push for more banks from Russia and Belarus to be cut off from the international payment system SWIFT, including Sberbank, said the people
The European Union is preparing a sixth package of sanctions against Russia over the invasion just over two months ago of Ukraine
Oil is a fungible commodity in a global market: If one source cuts off shipments, importing countries can just buy more oil from other suppliers, although they may pay higher prices on spot markets
Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday said India imports a very small portion of its oil requirements from Russia and was open to buying it if the terms were right
India has already bought more than twice as much crude from Russia in the two months since its invasion of Ukraine on Feb.
Oil ministry also asked OVL, the overseas investment arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corp, to consider buying a 30% stake held by Exxon Mobile Corp, in the Sakhalin 1 project in Russia's Far East