Ukraine represent a
market for minor to medium sized oil and gas companies as no major
international player has made permanent presence there yet in the
exploration or production phase
Twenty billion barrels of oil have been
pumped up from the Norwegian continental shelf since production
started in June 1971. It all began at the Ekofisk field, which in
2006 is Norway's most productive oil and gas field and a national
cultural heritage monument.
One of last
month's most interesting developments in Persian Gulf power
politics played out not in the Middle East, but in Vienna, Paris,
and Washington.
06 July 2011 , 11:42Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann LeverettMonthly Review,USA0
Tune in TODAY for a webcast of the Arctic Imperative
Conference organized by Alaska Dispatch Alice RogoffPublisher Alice
Rogoff (Photo), featuring Arctic political and thought leaders
including: Iceland's President Ólafur Ragnar GrÍmsson, Alaska
Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell, former governors Frank
Murkowski, and Bill Sheffield, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and
Mark Begich, and many other luminaries.
21 June 2011 , 00:12Dave Harbour, Publisher, Northern Gas Pipelines0
Integra
Group (LSE: INTE), a leading independent provider of diversified
oilfield services, and VTB Bank (Deutschland) AG increased their
existing term loan facility with permitted reborrowings from US$50
million to US$100 million and extended the tenor by 5 years.
Furthermore, the company benefits from improved pricing
terms.
With
instability in the Middle East driving oil prices higher PCI offers
six informed perspectives on what to expect in the days, weeks and
months ahead.
The common historical and cultural past of the two
countries and the economic difficulties they both faced after the
collapse of the Soviet Union have pushed them to stay
close.
Since the
collapse of the USSR the relationship between Russia and the
European Union (EU) has evolved in various phases mainly based on
global securities issues, economic trade and energetic
questions.
After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the Russian Federation adopted, through what it was called the “shock therapy”, the market economy and the capitalism system. 4 years later, as a consequence of an always more globalized economy, the former trade agreement called GATT (general agreement on tariffs and trade) was replaced by a new entity: the world trade organization (WTO).
Many Russians, including those within the political establishment, are fairly convinced that Russia and the US are very much alike and, in fact, are two sides of the same coin.
In the whole 19th century, Central Asia was in the heart of a complex geostrategic game which saw strong rivalries and conflicts between the British and the Russian Empires for supremacy in Central Asia.
THERE are two Russias. There is the Russia of glittering art, brilliant innovation, beautiful literature and with ponderous but steady advance towards freedom, democracy, of a sort, and a responsible role in the affairs of a world of whose landmass it occupies such an enormous part...
The new millennium is characterized by major global changes, some already in motion and others that will be required to adjust to them. Energy supply is the centerpiece of major changes in motion as the world is in transit to a low-carbon economy.
Earlier this week, British company Desire PLC began drilling in an offshore block of theFalkland Islands. Immediately, Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner let loose with a howl of rage, and the Summit of Latin American and Caribbean Unity issued a protest against the British company's drilling operations.
01 March 2010 , 15:02Martin HutchinsonMoney Morning0
Plutus, the Greek god of wealth, did not have an easy life. As the myth goes, Plutus wanted to grant riches only to the "the just, the wise, the men of ordered life." Zeus blinded him out of jealousy of mankind (and envy of the good), leaving Plutus to indiscriminately distribute his favors.
16 February 2010 , 14:11Simon Johnson, Peter BooneThe Wall Street Journal0