Search: Gazprom,Russia (24 materials)

 

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Gazprom’s Finance Director Andrey Kruglov announced recently on Russian TV plans for the energy giant to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Technically it would be the first Russian Company to do so, as Oleg Deripaska’s UC RUSAL is structured under a Jersey based entity and listed prior to a policy change ...

27.02.2015

The Course of South Stream

... to the standards of the Third Energy Package ratified by the European Commission’s Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators with regard to European Union and third party states. More specifically, the European side was not satisfied with Russia’s unwillingness to allow other suppliers to use the project’s infrastructure, and the fact that Gazprom would be the main operator. All this despite the fact that Brussels had no qualms about making such demands while offering no financing of its own whatsoever. Russia had teamed up with a number of private European investors to front around $15 ...

15.12.2014

Pyotr Poroshenko’s four problems

... repayment. It introduced an advance payment regime for Ukraine starting June 16, 2014. “The decision was taken because of chronic failure of Ukraine’s Naftogaz to pay. The company is $4.458 billion in arrears on its payment for delivered Russian gas: $1.451 billion for November–December 2013 and $3.007 billion for April–May 2014,” a Gazprom statement read. Moreover, Moscow expects that Ukraine’s intransigence over the gas issue, coupled with the change of personnel at the European Commission (which took an openly anti-Russian position), would speed up the implementation of ...

23.06.2014

Containment's Last Hurrah

... of Time magazine. Since that time, the tenor of U.S. public diplomacy, wittingly, or unwittingly, has taken on a Cold War tone in an effort to energize president Obama’s base and contain and counter what Washington and its NATO allies view as Russia reverting to a policy of Soviet-era expansionism. A replay of Kennan’s Cold War tactics of economic and political isolation and his psychological assessment of Russians as being inherently neurotic and inward looking are convenient for ...

27.04.2014

Nuclear geopolitics. Shifting sands along Africa’s Uranium Road

... underselling top producer Kazakhstan by a big margin, which could be considered dumping by the World Trade Organization. But the uranium club doesn’t play by WTO “dumping” rules. According to nuclear and mining trade publications Russian energy giant Gazprom and around twenty other international firms, including German operators, are active in mining or holding stakes to mine uranium in Niger. But the dominant organization is Areva. Areva revenue last year was reported at around $13 billion, but ...

19.02.2014

Future of Assad and Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party In Limbo As Syria Sitzkrieg Plays Out

... empire” jargon. Blame Russia for Europe’s economic problems when it controls only 30 percent of the Euro market. After all, it’s Russia’s gas to sell on the free market. Instead of talking to a European analyst or a representative of a Russian firm like Gazprom, the writer of the Monitor story sourced David Goldwyn, a former special envoy for international energy affairs under former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile, Washington ally Norway has just overtaken Russia as Europe top LNG provider,...

15.09.2013

Liberalization of Natural Gas Exports to Help Russia Restore Positions on the European and Global Markets

... both on economic and purely political factors, the trend suggests a replacement of Gazprom gas with alternative deliveries of LNG, pipeline gas from Norway and, later, from the Caspian area. Hence, concentration of natural gas exports in the hands of Gazprom seems irrelevant as it may weaken Russia's positions in the European market and reduce its share in the EU gas balance. Export Liberalization as Way Out of the Current Crisis? Photo: Forexau.com Gazprom had difficulties to fully using Opal pipeline to deliver gas from Nord Stream to Germany ...

01.08.2013

Oil and Gas Markets to 2025 - LUKoil

... "aggressive consolidation" should not only result in efficiency savings, but allow a new avenue of possibility as BP now has access to the Arctic with Rosneft. Hopefully, Rosneft's consolidation and LUKoil's upward trend will pull Russian companies back into the top 50 firms of the Financial Times Global 500, as only candidate Gazprom crashed out extravagantly this year by losing 26 places and ending up 57th due to the quickly changing European market. To add salt to the wound, Gazprom is now sandwiched between Walt Disney and McDonald's. Finally, it is worth mentioning ...

25.07.2013

European Energy Woes

... as there is a sizeable over-supply with rooted demand whilst at the same time competition between three giants is increasing: Gazprom, Novatek and Rosneft. Novatek and Rosneft are already selling gas at discounted prices of 5-10% in contrast to the Russian Federal Tariff Service (FST) which Gazprom follows, so it means they are working within a profit margin and the existing price level is market orientated. Hence, the rational question arises why do we need to raise this price? As we see, major consumers like electricity generators are ...

14.06.2013

Russia-West Relations – Setting the Temperature

... remain number one choice as China will never pay anything close to European market prices. Russia will need to carefully manage its energy resources, as its budget greatly depends on them. I think that this investigation may actually be healthy for the Russian economy and for Gazprom in the long-run, as it could lead to more openness and efficiency. For instance, genuine Russian competitors like Novatek and Rosneft will be able to provide competition. As Gazprom is a huge resource for the Russian government it needs to evolve ...

29.05.2013
 

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