Revenue dropped as the COVID-19 crisis caused global oil prices to plummet, and Azerbaijan committed to produce less oil under an OPEC+ deal.

Ukraine’s renewables sector is in chaos, marred by unrealistic promises, setbacks caused by the COVID pandemic - and spiralling debt that has left Kyiv on the hook to foreign green energy producers at a tab of close to $1 billion.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters after a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in Antalya, Turkey, that the two major powers had a common position.

Kazakhstan plans to boost refining volumes by 7.6 percent year-on-year to 17 million tonnes and increase production of refined products by 7.8 percent.

The Central Asian country expects to produce 85.3 million tonnes of oil in 2021 instead of 86 million tonnes forecast earlier.