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MOSCOW -- Moscow's current taxation policy is encouraging oil companies to divert more crude volumes to their domestic refineries, and away from exports. This explains part of a small drop [...]

MOSCOW -- Russia is slashing its seaborne crude exports by 95,000 barrels per day compared to the previous month in October port loading schedules, cutting back Baltic Sea loadings as [...]

MOSCOW -- Russia is planning to boost its seaborne crude exports modestly again in September, by 65,000 barrels per day compared to the previous month, according to port loading schedules--minus [...]

MOSCOW -- Russia has penciled in a modest 29,000 barrel per day hike in its seaborne crude export plans for August compared with July by channeling more volumes through the [...]

MOSCOW -- Russia has set out ambitious plans to ramp up July seaborne crude exports by 84,000 barrels per day from the previous month, according to loading schedules issued so [...]

MOSCOW -- Russia's stagnating crude production and a massive tax hike are taking their toll on the country's exports, as Moscow pencils in a June port loading programs implying a [...]

MOSCOW -- Russia is planning a seasonal ramp up of 112,000 barrels per day in seaborne crude exports in April, as winter storms subside and ice melts in Baltic ports. [...]

MOSCOW -- Taking into account the realities of winter storms forcing the repeated closure of Black Sea ports, Russia is planning to slash its March seaborne crude exports by 214,000 [...]

MOSCOW -- Russia has sprung a major surprise on world oil markets with a massive reshuffle of its February seaport loading programs. Moscow has completely removed Yukos' current and former [...]

MOSCOW -- Russia is carrying out its threat to cut off Butinge as an export outlet by slashing crude shipments to the Lithuanian port down to a trickle. Angered by [...]

MOSCOW -- Moscow's campaign to steer its crude exports away from foreign ports to domestic ones has claimed its next victim. Lithuania's Butinge export terminal is facing the prospect of [...]

MOSCOW -- Russia is planning a hefty 123,000 barrel per day boost in its October seaborne crude exports from the previous month, and potentially even more once the schedule for [...]

MOSCOW -- Seaborne Russian crude exports are set to dip by 18,000 barrels per day in September from August, as a scandal over the current underutilization of national pipeline operator [...]

MOSCOW -- The Russian government is rubbing its hands in anticipation, as it prepares to grab an even bigger piece of the petrodollar pie by slapping record-high tariffs on crude [...]

Russia's Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko has defended Moscow's consolidation of the oil and gas industry ahead of an official visit to the US. According to the ministry's website, [...]

Russian oil companies are cheering the ouster of Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. However, her departure could paradoxically strengthen her role if she returns with a vengeance in Ukraine's parliamentary [...]

Russia's stagnating crude production and a massive tax increase are taking their toll on the country's exports, as Moscow pencils in a June port loading program implying a 129,000 barrel [...]

Crude exports from Yukos' current and former producers has descended into a shadowy murk that harkens back to the wild dealings of Russia a decade ago. For world oil markets, [...]

Russian state oil company Rosneft looks to have solidified its grip over Yuganskneftegas, now that one of its friendly trading partners has taken control of marketing the ex-Yukos producer's crude [...]

Russia is planning to put an end to a six-year production growth streak as it enters the new year. Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko has signed off on the [...]

Yukos looks set to be carved up by Christmas after the Russian government set a date for the forced sell-off of the company's 1 million barrel per day production arm, [...]

Georgia's role as a key transit corridor for Caspian oil and gas exports to world markets has been boosted by the restart of construction of an ambitious $150 million oil [...]

Russia's Ministry of Justice announced Tuesday that it would sell off part of Yukos' main crude production unit, Yuganskneftegas, sending the oil giant's shares plummeting. The announcement came after international [...]

Russia is planning a hefty 123,000 b/d boost in its October seaborne crude exports from the previous month, and potentially even more. The increase is planned to come entirely out [...]

Escalating tensions between Moscow and Tbilisi have heightened Georgia's fears of Russian military attacks on its territory as it tries to hold together the fragile state. Relations between the two [...]

A series of contradictory actions by courts and law enforcement agencies in the case against Yukos has sent the company's stock price on a wild roller coaster ride. The alternating [...]

Russia's economic head honcho said on Friday that capital flight from the country has shot up this year. German Gref, Russia's minister for economic development and trade, said that capital [...]

MOSCOW--Russia continues to struggle with problems in its pipeline system. Continued bottlenecks are forcing it to scale back crude exports, with an 18,000 barrel per day cut planned in the [...]

MOSCOW -- Moscow has ambitious plans for its summer crude exports, starting with a 110,000 barrel per day boost in June seaborne loadings over last month--and this could even be [...]

MOSCOW -- Black Sea bottlenecks and the onset of May holidays have forced Russia to scale back its export ambitions for the month. In the port loading schedules issued so [...]

MOSCOW -- Taking advantage of the spring thaw, Russia is planning to ramp up seaborne crude exports by 103,000 barrels per day in April from the previous month. National pipeline [...]

MOSCOW -- Russia is planning to ramp up crude exports by 99,000 barrels per day via the Transneft system during the second quarter of 2004, continuing the upward trajectory of [...]

Stymied by export pipeline bottlenecks, Russian oil companies are increasingly turning to alternative export transportation. Russia has been steadily beefing up its fleet of rail tank cars as it struggles [...]

MOSCOW -- Russia plans to ramp up seaborne crude exports by 60,000 barrels per day in March from the previous month's level as it takes advantage of capacity increases at [...]

Platts is trying to introduce a new methodology for pricing Russian Urals spot cargoes in the Mediterranean, triggering some harsh criticism from traders, who say it threatens to crimp the [...]

MOSCOW -- Russia is planning a robust 123,000 barrel per day increase in its seaborne crude exports in the short month of February--to 2.251 million b/d (8.905 million tons) from [...]

It will be difficult for Russian oil company stocks in 2004 to match the solid gains made last year as robust production and export growth and strong world oil prices [...]

Russia is locking horns in a pipeline dispute with Azerbaijan as it struggles to maintain its role as a key transit corridor for Caspian crude to world markets. Azeri state [...]

MOSCOW -- Russia is aiming for an ambitious boost in oil exports as it enters the New Year, although its plans are almost certain to be thwarted by stormy weather [...]

Russia is aiming for an ambitious export boost as it enters the New Year, though its plans are almost certain to be thwarted by stormy weather and infrastructure constraints. Winter [...]

The environmentally risky transit of Russian oil in single-hulled tankers from the Baltics has helped speed the adoption of tougher international shipping standards. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has agreed [...]

Russia is reversing its long-running trend of crude export growth this month, as it sets out a slim reduction of 4,000 barrels per day in the seaport loading programs for [...]

Russia is reversing its long-running trend of crude export growth this month, as it sets out a slim reduction of 4,000 barrels per day in the seaport loading programs for [...]

The crackdown against Russian oil giant Yukos has claimed another casualty, as the company's merger with smaller rival Sibneft has been suspended. The hand of the Kremlin is seen behind [...]

MOSCOW -- Jailed Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky resigned from his post as chief executive of oil giant Yukos on Monday following a stream of conciliatory remarks by top government officials, [...]

MOSCOW -- Despite its internal political and legal battles, Russia is strengthening its role as the world's second-biggest crude exporter, ramping up capacity by another 255,000 barrels per day next [...]

Russia is strengthening its role as the world's second-biggest crude exporter as it ramps up capacity by another 255,000 barrels per day next month at the Baltic Sea port of [...]

MOSCOW -- Leading Russian oil producer YukosSibneft lashed out at authorities on Monday, as law enforcement bodies stepped up their campaign against the company's shareholders. Paradoxically, Russian President Vladimir Putin [...]

MOSCOW -- Russia has set out to boost crude exports by 35,000 barrels per day in the October port loading programs, compared with September, but some last minute bickering could [...]

MOSCOW -- In a last-ditch attempt to head off an energy war with Russia, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko met Monday with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, at the Russian Black [...]