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Two recent examples of challenging customer requirements are the Blue Stream project--a task involving the laying of a gas pipeline at record depths across the bed of the Black Sea--and [...]

WORLD production and consumption of liquefied natural gas (LNG) have increased by more than a third over the past five years and have doubled over the past 10 (see Figure [...]

'WE ARE a country, not an oil company.' With these words, in April, Abdullah al-Attiyah--energy minister of Qatar and head of national oil company Qatar Petroleum (QP)--sent out an important [...]

SHE CAN hardly be said to be short of ambition. But when Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine's so-called Orange Princess and prime minister, recently invited Western investors to help the country become [...]

Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) has signed an agreement with Gazprom Global for supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG). Gazprom will supply 2.5 million tonnes of LNG a year to [...]

Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) has signed an agreement with Gazprom Global LNG (GGLNG) of Russia for supply of up to 2.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of liquefied natural [...]

A US economist expects Russian gas monopoly Gazprom to have difficulties in respecting all its obligations and predicts that gas shortages would already begin to occur in the winter of [...]

The EU wants detailed figures on gas supplies from Gazprom to help it define its energy strategy. Speaking at the EU-Russia Energy Dialogue in Moscow on 30 October, Energy Commissioner [...]

EMERGING MARKETS The upcoming Duma elections in Russia are seeing a surfeit of companies come to the market at attractive valuations, F&C has said. The investment house said this is [...]

BG Group shares rose 4 per cent after the company issued third-quarter results that were ahead of expectations. Underlying EPS was up 16 per cent year-on-year. And Russian state gas [...]

The Russian economy is becoming less dependent on commodities, presenting greater diversification opportunities, Charlemagne Capital claims. In its latest update on the AGBP67m Russia fund, the analyst team wrote: 'The [...]

These are torrid times for the two big UK oil stocks. BP is promising an overhaul of US risk management practices following a fatal refinery fire and pipeline spillages. And [...]

Russia's Andrei V. Belyi specialises in Russian-European energy issues. His thesis presented at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles focuses on the energy dimension of pan-European security. He is currently an [...]

Investors have begun taking a step back from Bric-themed funds, according to US-based Emerging Portfolio Fund Research. The consultant claimed its data, collated from fund flows, showed a cooling of [...]

The European Parliament has voiced ?regrets? that the recent European Union-Russia summit failed to strike a significant deal on energy co-operation. The parliament passed a motion stressing the ?strategic importance? [...]

Chill winds are blowing for BP's Russian joint venture, TNK-BP. The Kremlin now seems likely to prevent its participation in major new hydrocarbon production in Russia. But such participation was [...]

(From Israel Business Arena) Byline: Globes correspondent In a review of emerging markets following the recent sell-off, UBS picks five stocks that it calls its 'highest conviction calls', among them [...]

744p - Oil & gas producers - European politicians are yelping about economic blackmail as the shadow of the Russian gas giant Gazprom falls across their national markets. But BG [...]

(From Israel Business Arena) Byline: Gal Nissim Russian energy company Gazprom will complete a feasibility study for the supply of gas to Israel by October 2006. Gazprom agreed to conduct [...]

(From Israel Business Arena) Byline: Gal Nissim The entry of Gazprom as a supplier of natural gas to Israel is unrealistic, said Joseph (Yossi) Maiman at the energy conference 2006 [...]

Energy and financials stocks have buoyed up the Neptune Russia and Greater Russia fund over its first year. This is according to Neptune's chief investment officer and the fund's manager [...]

I first went to Russia in 1980 for the Olympics. Twenty-five years ago Russia was a very different place, deep in the grip of a very bureaucratic communism. Remarkable features [...]

(From Israel Business Arena) Byline: Gal Nissim The Ministry of National Infrastructures is moving forward on preliminary plans for building a liquid natural gas (LNG) depot, which will enable Israel [...]

A TEMPORARY reprieve for Europe was the best thing analysts could say about Russia's decision to keep prices for its gas exports to Ukraine unchanged at $95/'000 cubic metres (cm) [...]

A FEW years ago, Brazil's Petrobras was considering building gas-liquefaction plants to supply the growing US market for liquefied natural gas (LNG). Those plans now appear highly improbable, at least [...]

TWO EXPLOSIONS on a pipeline that halted Russian gas supplies to Georgia and Armenia for a week in late January came at a bad time for Gazprom, which was already [...]

In talks with President Alexander Lukashenko last month, Gazprom deputy chairman Alexander Medvedev has discussed the possibility of raising the volume of gas shipped to Europe through partner Beltransgaz. The [...]

TRADITIONALLY, Gazprom, the country's state-owned gas monopoly, is fiercely independent, especially in matters of gas transport. The company owns and operates Russia's entire 50,000 km natural gas trunkline network. Control [...]