Former Soviet Union
Policy & Regulation
Ukraine must clean up its act to attract Western players
Kiev needs to break the stranglehold of Ukraine’s oligarchs if it wants companies to invest in the country.
2 October 2017
Exploration & Production
Russia aiming to boost Far East gas output by 150%
Russia is looking to increase gas production in the far east of the country by nearly 150% by 2035.
4 August 2017
LNG
Novatek mulls transshipment facility in Russia’s far east
Novatek may build a 20 mtpa station to transfer Yamal LNG cargoes from ice-class vessels to standard tankers to reduce costs.
3 August 2017
Global Markets
Siemens suspends shipments of power equipment to Russia
Siemens is to suspend shipments of power generation equipment to state-controlled Russian companies, the German company has announced.
21 July 2017
Pipelines, Storage & Power
Gazprom tackles tricky Yakutia section of Power of Siberia
Gazprom has started construction on a difficult underwater section of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline in the Russian republic of Yakutia.
20 July 2017
Pipelines, Storage & Power
Ukraine launches EU-funded study on storage facilities
Ukraine has launched a comprehensive EU-funded study of it gas storage facilities intended to help design strategy scenarios for their optimal use.
18 July 2017
Pipelines, Storage & Power
Ukrainian and Polish TSOs consider boosting cross-border capacity
Ukrainian gas transport system operator Ukrtransgaz and its Polish counterpart Gaz-System have proposed increasing the transmission capacity from Poland to Ukraine.
13 July 2017
Pipelines, Storage & Power
Siemens files lawsuits against Russian players over gas turbines
Germany’s Siemens filed lawsuits on Tuesday against its own Russian subsidiary and Technopromexport, a Russian engineering company, over the use of gas turbines it supplied to Russia.
11 July 2017
LNG
Sakhalin LNG exports to Asia down 8%
Russia’s Sakhalin 2 project exported just over 4.9 mt of LNG to the Asia Pacific region in the first half of 2017, a year-on-year drop of 8.2%.
11 July 2017
LNG
Gazprom reveals first details of OMV Black Sea LNG plant
Russia’s Gazprom has disclosed the first details about its joint project with Austria’s OMV to build a small-scale LNG plant on the Black Sea coast.
11 July 2017
Pipelines, Storage & Power
TANAP construction 77% complete, startup due in 2018
The construction of TANAP is 77% complete and startup is scheduled for 2018, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has said.
11 July 2017
Pipelines, Storage & Power
Turkmenistan proposes gas pipeline to China via Afghanistan
Turkmenistan has suggested developing a gas export route to China via Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
4 July 2017
Pipelines, Storage & Power
Power of Siberia supplies will start in December 2019 – Miller
Russia will start supplying gas to China via the Power of Siberia pipeline on 20 December 2019, Gazprom Chief Executive Alexei Miller has announced.
4 July 2017
LNG
Gazprom revives Vladivostok LNG as bunkering project
Gazprom is reviving its Vladivostok LNG project as a bunkering facility, Gazprom Chief Executive Alexei Miller said at a press conference on Friday.
3 July 2017
Companies & Finance
Sistema asks Russian court to unfreeze assets in Rosneft/Bashneft case
The Russian conglomerate has asked a regional arbitration court to return assets frozen as security in the lawsuit.
3 July 2017
LNG
Russian companies could take stakes in Baltic LNG project
Russian companies could be among the shareholders in Baltic LNG, according to Gazprom Chief Executive Alexei Miller.
3 July 2017
Policy & Regulation
Gazprom appeals against interim Ukraine decision
Gazprom is appealing against a decision by the Stockholm arbitration court in its dispute with Naftogaz Ukrainy.
3 July 2017
Supply & Demand
SOCAR obtains licence to trade gas in Ukraine
State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic has obtained a licence to deliver and sell gas to Ukraine.
30 June 2017
Pipelines, Storage & Power
Turkmen president invites Uzbek businesses to take part in TAPI
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has invited Uzbekistan’s business community to participate in the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline.
30 June 2017
Supply & Demand
Gazprom lifts 2017 production estimate to 450 bcm
Gazprom has raised its production estimate for 2017 to 450 billion cubic metres based on results from the first half of the year, Chief Executive Alexei Miller has said.
30 June 2017
Global Markets
Rosneft retail pilot project may start next year – company source
Rosneft’s pilot project to spin off its retail business into a separate holding structure may be completed as early as 2018, a source at the company has told Interfax.
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