Russian energy giant Gazprom's supply of gas to China, including via western route, will not affect the volume of the company's deliveries to Europe, Gazprom Export Director General Elena Burmistrova said Monday.

Russian energy company Rosneft and China's CNPC have agreed on broader cooperation in the area of exploration and extraction, the Rosneft press service said on Wednesday.

Global demand for fossil fuels is expected to peak in 2023, something which will put oil, coal and gas assets worth trillions of dollars at risk, since energy giants may be unprepared for the inevitable energy transition, a prominent climate change think tank revealed in a fresh report.

Russia could play a leading role in developing multilateral energy market in the Asia-Pacific, since it is a key supplier to major regional energy importers including China, South Korea and Japan, a United Nations energy official told Sputnik on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Tuesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong have agreed to widen the zone of exploration and extraction of oil and gas on the Vietnamese continental shelf, the Kremlin said on Saturday.

Russian energy giant Gazprom has increased gas extraction to 325.4 billion cubic meters (around 11 trillion cubic feet) in January-August 2018, which is 7.5 percent more compared to the same period in 2017, Gazprom said in a statement on Monday.

Russian energy giant Gazprom has increased gas extraction to 325.4 billion cubic meters (around 11 trillion cubic feet) in January-August 2018, which is 7.5 percent more compared to the same period in 2017, Gazprom said in a statement on Monday.

Russian energy giant Gazprom is set to increase gas extraction in January-August this year by 7.5 percent, compared to the similar period last year, the company's CEO Alexei Miller said Thursday.

The United States is interested in the participation of Russian companies in shale gas and oil extraction projects in Alaska, the Russian Embassy in the United States told Sputnik.

The Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea signed by the leaders of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan,