{"id":374892,"date":"2025-08-26T12:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374892\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T12:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:16:10","slug":"u-s-russia-energy-deals-discussed-in-meetings-on-ukraine-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374892\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-Russia Energy Deals Discussed in Meetings on Ukraine Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senior U.S. and Russian officials discussed bilateral energy deals on the sidelines of the talks on reaching a peace agreement in Ukraine earlier in August, sources with knowledge of the negotiations told Reuters<\/a> on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to some of these sources, the potential energy agreements between the U.S. and Russia were proposed as an incentive for Putin to agree to a peace in Ukraine and a path forward for the United States to ease sanctions on Moscow. The potential deals were discussed during the visit of U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff to Moscow in early August, when he met with Vladimir Putin ahead of the Trump-Putin meeting<\/a> in Alaska on August 15.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The potential deals that were discussed, including briefly at the Alaska summit, included ExxonMobil returning to the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas development project, which the U.S. supermajor quit<\/a> after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the anonymous sources told Reuters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The U.S. and Russian officials also discussed Russia potentially buying U.S. equipment for its LNG projects, including the heavily sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project that\u2019s struggling<\/a> to take off and find buyers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To coincide with the Trump-Putin meeting, the Russian President amended his decree from 2022 giving full Russian ownership to Sakhlain-1, and opened the door<\/a> to a return of foreign companies to the oil and gas project.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, since the Alaska summit, no breakthrough in the peace talks has been achieved, much to the frustration of President Trump, who threatens o-and-off \u201csevere consequences\u201d and new sanctions against Russia if Putin continues to reject peace talks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A much-hyped Putin-Zelenskyy meeting is not happening anytime soon, analysts say.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov doesn\u2019t see such a meeting as possible in the immediate future, either.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPutin is ready to meet with Zelenskyy, when the agenda would be ready for a summit,\u201d Lavrov told<\/a> NBC News\u2019 \u201cMeet the Press\u201d program that aired Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd this agenda is not ready at all,\u201d Lavrov said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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