Iran foreign ministry spokesman said Iran has responded to a U.S. proposal. He said the U.S. proposal is similar to earlier offers and focuses on the nuclear issue, while Iran wants negotiations to center on the Strait of Hormuz.

On Oct. 3, Ukrainian President Zelenskiy said Ukraine will intensify strikes on Russian refineries in response to large-scale Russian air raids. Earlier the same day the Russian defence ministry said Russian forces used drones overnight to strike Ukrainian infrastructure and vessels supporting Ukrainian forces. The ministry reported the northern highway bridge over the Dnipro in Kyiv — used for troop movements and materiel transport — was hit; a Kyiv-region logistics centre storing Ukrainian supplies was struck; and a cargo ship en route to Odesa in the northwest Black Sea was hit.

China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) said the country’s first offshore CO2-injection enhanced-gas-recovery (EGR) demonstration — the new central platform at the Dongfang 1-1 gas field — has completed main-structure construction and entered commissioning. When operational the project will sequester over 1 mln tonnes of CO2 a year in subsea formations, a material step toward scaling deep decarbonization in China’s offshore energy sector.