... project.” The most vulnerable area is the actual laying of the pipeline. To this end, Gazprom is leasing pipelaying ships from the Swiss company Allseas, with the procedure... ... Allseas will pull out of the contract in light of the U.S. ban. In any case, the American sanctions against Nord Stream 2 will be a blow not only to Russia, but (and perhaps... ... increasingly obvious that the United States it attempting to block the flow of Russian gas in Ukraine, and then reduce it, which will harm European economies. The history...
... forbade American companies to take part (supply equipment and technologies) in the following kinds of projects:
deep water (over 152 meters) oil field development,
Arctic shelf field development,
scavenger oil field development, including shale oil and gas.
Viktor Katona:
Gazprom Gaining Ground in Europe
Technological sanctions were a formal cause for some projects to freeze.
This wave of sanctions affected the Russian energy sector companies, though to a less extent than had been projected by the American government. The political elite didn’t turn against the ...
... Western European companies in the energy sector has remained significant, despite the sanctions regime. Strong economic rationale seems to prevail over politics. The German-Russian... ... deals and favorable transactions, which encompass the entire value-chain of the natural gas sector. The pinnacle of recent collaboration has been the initiation of the Nord... ... potential to completely substitute Ukrainian transit routes. On top of that, in 2015 Gazprom has delivered to Germany a record quantity of 45.3 bcm of natural gas. What’s...
