Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak held a meeting on the domestic oil products market with representatives of the management of oil companies, the Ministry of Energy, the Federal Antimonopoly Service and the Ministry of Agriculture, after which the Deputy Prime Minister gave instructions on oil. Workers are trying to increase winter diesel production. This was reported by TASS.
The publication noted that the meeting took into account a stable situation in prices of oil products in the retail segment, declines in foreign exchange and small wholesale prices, as well as the cost of fuel for agricultural producers.
Novak also instructed the Ministry of Agriculture, together with the governments of Russian regions, to monitor the prices of intermediaries when selling fuel oil to farmers.
This is before Novak statedHe said that Western countries will not lift the ceiling price for oil supplied from the Russian Federation in the near future.
On October 13, Igor Yushkov, a leading analyst of the National Energy Security Fund of the Russian Federation, said that by the end of this year the price of Brent oil could approach $100 per barrel.
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