Europe
INEOS prepares 10 anti-dumping cases to EU commission in unprecedented move
Europe’s chemical sector, the foundation of modern manufacturing, is being drowned by a tidal wave of low-cost imports from Asia, the Middle East and the United States. These products are undercutting European producers who face the world’s highest energy prices and escalating, unilateral carbon costs.
U.S. urges Europe to stick to oil and gas, not renewables
The U.S. has become Europe's top oil and gas supplier on the back of the U.S. shale boom and its companies are seeking to boost the share as the European Union moves to fully cut off remaining Russian energy imports.
Slovak refiner Slovnaft says Croatia's Janaf cuts supply of non-Russian crude
Slovnaft, part of Hungary's oil and gas group MOL, mostly processes Russian oil and an exemption to EU sanctions that allowed it to export products to the Czech Republic derived from those deliveries expired in June.
Russia's Volgograd oil refinery halts operations after Ukrainian drone attack
Ukraine has for several months been striking Russian oil refineries, depots and pipelines, while Ukrainian energy infrastructure has also been the target of Russian strikes in a war that is approaching its fourth year.
Fire at Belarusian oil refinery Naftan has been put out
The fire was caused by an incident involving diesel fuel at a technological unit.
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