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MARCH 2, 2022

ExxonMobil is discontinuing operations at Sakhalin-1, and will make no new investments in Russia. The sub-artic Sakhalin-1 Project is one of the largest single international direct investments in Russia. The Russia party is represented by two Rosneft affiliates: RN-Astra (8.5%) and Sakhalinmorneftegaz-Shelf (11.5%).

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

A decision by Russia to retaliate against sanctions imposed by the European Union and the US over Ukraine by imposing strong Russian sanctions—i.e., Economic downturn and political uncertainty have kept revenues in the Russian automotive market on a downward trend for months now. The forecasted market volume of 2.2

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MARCH 25, 2022

The Renault Group suspended its industrial activities in Russia on 23 March ( earlier post ). Regarding its stake in AVTOVAZ, Renault Group said that it is assessing the available options, taking into account the current environment, while acting responsibly towards its 45,000 employees in Russia.

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MAY 17, 2022

The Board of Directors of Renault Group unanimously approved the signing of agreements to sell 100% of Renault Group’s shares in Renault Russia to Moscow City entity and its 67.69% interest in AVTOVAZ to NAMI (the Central Research and Development Automobile and Engine Institute). As of 31 December 2021, this value amounted to €2,195 million.

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MARCH 1, 2022

Equinor’s Board of Directors has decided to stop new investments into Russia, and to start the process of exiting Equinor’s Russian Joint Ventures. Equinor has been in Russia for more than 30 years and entered a cooperation agreement with Rosneft in 2012. billion in non-current assets in Russia.

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JULY 4, 2022

As a result, advanced economies have lost market leadership, as 27 out of 31 reactors that started construction since 2017 are Russian or Chinese designs. And the nuclear industry must quickly address the issues of cost overruns and project delays that have bedevilled the construction of new plants in advanced economies.

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MARCH 24, 2022

Regarding its stake in AVTOVAZ, Renault Group said that it is assessing the available options, taking into account the current environment, while acting responsibly towards its 45,000 employees in Russia. Renault Group already implements the necessary measures to comply with international sanctions.

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

November 27, oil consuming countries will celebrate the first anniversary of the Saudi decision to let market forces determine prices. Subsequently, to defend market share, the Saudis increased production, which exacerbated market oversupply and further pressured prices. This decision set crude prices on a downward path.

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JULY 31, 2023

Since the EU imposed sanctions on Russia in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, there has been a redrawing of the global oil map, a new study by Transport & Environment (T&E) shows. Instead of cutting demand, Europe has simply replaced imports from Russia with oil from other producing countries.

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JUNE 16, 2017

The Volkswagen Group and GAZ Group have extended their manufacturing agreement for Volkswagen and ŠKODA models in Russia until 2025. TDI engines for GAZ light commercial vehicles, opening up new business opportunities in international markets. Petersburg and other major cities in Russia as well as some export markets.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

At the Moscow International Automobile Salon 2014, Mitsubishi presented its four-wheel drive SUV plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), the Outlander PHEV ( earlier post ); sales of the Outlander PHEV will start in Russia from September, 2014. The Outlander PHEV is the top-selling plug-in in Europe. Sales figures from EV Sales.).

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AUGUST 24, 2022

Russia-based Nornickel has begun prototyping new nickel- and cobalt-based alloys, which are of high demand in the aviation, space, nuclear, chemical and oil and gas industries. Nornickel’s Kola Division in Russia is represented by Kola MMC, a wholly owned key production site. —Denis Sharypin, Head of the Marketing Department.

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JUNE 4, 2023

Russia-based Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel and a major producer of platinum and copper, presented its eleventh review of the nickel and platinum group metals (PGM) markets based on the fundamental analysis of world economic and industry data. Mt to 3.22 Mt (7% year-on-year growth).

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MARCH 1, 2022

Our immediate focus is the safety of our people in Ukraine and supporting our people in Russia. In discussion with governments around the world, we will also work through the detailed business implications, including the importance of secure energy supplies to Europe and other markets, in compliance with relevant sanctions.

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OCTOBER 15, 2022

Toyota Motor Europe (TME) reported sales of 813,547 Toyota and Lexus vehicles, a decrease of -6% year-on-year but still outperforming the European automotive market which fell by -16% over the same period. TME’s market share increased to a record 7.5%, marking an increase of +0.8% points compared to the same period in 2021.

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Other key findings from the report: Six reactors started up in 2019, four large PWRs commenced operation, one in South Korea, one in Russia and two in China. Nuclear generation fell fractionally in North America and in West & Central Europe, but rose in Africa, Asia, South America and East Europe & Russia.

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MARCH 18, 2015

General Motors announced plans to change its business model in Russia. GM will focus on the premium segment of the Russian market with Cadillac and US-built iconic Chevrolet products such as the Corvette, Camaro and Tahoe. This decision avoids significant investment into a market that has very challenging long-term prospects.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It was one of the highest increases among all car categories on the global market, which can be explained by several factors, JATO said. Overall, 2018 marked a somewhat challenging year for the global car market, as sales fell for the first time since 2009, logging 86.01 Passenger electric cars recorded 1.26 of total global sales).

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MAY 30, 2023

India’s state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) said that oil output from the Sakhalin-1 project in Russia has returned to a plateau level of 190,000 - 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) from zero. The parties also noted a significant increase in turnover between Russia and India. Sakhalin-1 produced an average of 227,000 bpd in 2021.

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MARCH 11, 2022

According to GlobalData’s Mining Commodity Analyzer , Russia was the third-largest producer of nickel in 2021, producing more than 200,000 tons. The evolving situation in Russia and Ukraine has already caused unprecedented increases in the price of nickel. Trading had yet to resume as of 10 March.

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JULY 8, 2021

Russia-based Halmek Lithium has selected Metso Outotec’s patented lithium hydroxide process for production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide at its greenfield plant in the Tula region in Russia. The order value has not been disclosed. Battery-grade lithium hydroxide. —Pavel Galchenko, VP, Halmek Lithium.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

According to GlobalData, more than 160GW of fresh nuclear capacity will be added globally between 2020-2030 out of which about 66% of this capacity addition is anticipated to take place in China, India and Russia. Here again, China (34%), India (17%) and Russia (12%) hold over 63% of the planned projects.

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JULY 12, 2021

The Review captures the significant impact the global pandemic had on energy markets and how it may shape future global energy trends. By country, the US, India and Russia saw the largest declines in energy consumption. Country wise, Russia (-1 million b/d), Libya (-920,000 b/d) and Saudi Arabia (-790,000 b/d). million b/d).

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

is to nationalize lithium so that it cannot be exploited by foreigners from Russia, China or the United States. According to the resource assessment report of SRK Consulting (UK), the total lithium resource of the project is approximately 8.82 What we are doing now.

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OCTOBER 13, 2022

BNEF’s 2H 2022 Energy Storage Market Outlook sees an additional 13% of capacity by 2030 than previously estimated, primarily driven by recent policy developments. The US and China are set to remain the two largest markets, representing more than half of global storage installations by the end of the decade.

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MAY 10, 2022

European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton and European electrolyzer manufacturers last week met in Brussels to discuss how to increase industry’s capacity to produce electrolyzers used to produce clean hydrogen. —Commissioner for Internal Market, Thierry Breton.

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APRIL 15, 2014

TME’s European market share in the first three months of the year stands at 4.9%, up 0.4 Sales of the Toyota Corolla more than doubled in the first quarter reaching 21,511 units with nearly three-quarters in Israel, Russia and Turkey. percentage points from the same period last year.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

EIA sees additional uncertainty in the global marketplace for distillates and other fuels as the European Union plans to ban imports of petroleum products from Russia in early 2023. EIA forecasts Russia will produce 9.3 —EIA Administrator Joe DeCarolis.

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JUNE 26, 2022

million barrels per day (b/d) of surplus production capacity was available in non-OPEC countries, about 60% of which was in Russia. As of May 2022, EIA estimates that all surplus production capacity in Russia was eliminated due to the sanctions implemented after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In 2021, 1.4

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Satellite tracking of oil cargoes by market reporting group OPIS shows that Europe’s dependence on Russia for road fuels in the 28 member countries has deepened significantly. Diesel imports from Russia are at a record in the first eight months of 2014, with Germany the most reliant, followed by France, and then the UK.

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JANUARY 1, 2021

The parties are willing to prepare a new option for energy security between Russia and Japan by establishing a new value chain which transports ammonia produced in Russia to be utilized as fuel in Japan. In addition, TOYO has more than 50 years business history in Russia including eastern Siberia.

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JULY 21, 2022

After Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, the impacts of reduced global refining capacity were exacerbated. In its June 2022 Oil Market Report, the IEA expects net global refining capacity to expand by 1.0 million b/d in 2022 and by an additional 1.6 million b/d in 2023. million b/d in 2022 and by 2.1

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AUGUST 4, 2021

Russia’s Economy Ministry said earlier today that it has plans to utilize subsidy programs to boost the manufacturing and purchase of locally-built electric vehicles. Just 11,000 of the over 45 million vehicles driven in Russia last year were electric, with most being used cars. The incentive program could start as early as 2022.

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JULY 27, 2023

You can look at trends—for example the increasing adoption of green hydrogen across Europe since Russia invaded Ukraine. Another use example is viewing the projected hydrogen supply by region or country year-over-year.

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DECEMBER 15, 2014

Group brands delivered a total of 3.55 (3.36; +5.7%) million vehicles to customers on the overall European market in the period to November, of which 1.83 (1.70; +7.7%) million units were handed over in Western Europe (excluding Germany). 240,700 (276,200; -12.9%) models were handed over to customers in Russia.

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JULY 7, 2022

The new fleet in the New Moscow is the first in Russia composed of electric buses only, without any diesel vehicles. Moscow, which overall has the largest electric bus fleet in Europe ( earlier post ) has 8 separate bus fleets—all of them consisting of a mixture of e-buses and diesel buses. thousand tonnes/year.

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

To cut and push up prices or not to cut and preserve market share, this is the question that Saudi Arabia is facing ahead of this year’s December OPEC meeting. million barrels daily, including from Russia, to reverse the free fall of oil prices. by Irina Slav for Oilprice.com. At the time, it worked because everyone was desperate.

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