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Analytics // TransportationPerspective for Turkish Stream project: possible scenarios and challenges
Turkmenistan takes tough measures: Analysis
Can Israeli natural gas reach Europe?
Has Ukraine scored an own-goal with its transit fee proposals?
The (German) Politics of Nord Stream 2
Russia-German Pipeline May Break Europe’s Energy Union
the Inuvik Conference ended with hope for a Mackenzie Pipeline announcement this summer
Vladimir Putin cut the Balkan knot Holding oil and gas resources without transportation system means nothing. The strategic importance of the Balkans, from the point of view of logistics, is so that this region can become a stumbling block on the way of both the Russian natural gas and the gas from Central Asia.
What's gonna happen to the Russia's oil fleet? Russia’s foreign partners should expect essential expansion of Russian fleet soon, and, consequently, an increase of export supplies, according to Braemar Seascope group’s experts.
The global demand for oil and petroleum products is on its ever-high level now, and it keeps growing.
US Auto Makers Future in Jeopardy Green cars -- if that adjective can be applied to any car -- are going to have a huge advantage in the global automobile market, according to the World Resources Institute (WRI), a respected, Washington-based environmental research organization.
Mayor Pending Pipeline Projects In Russia By the year 2012, Russian government and company forecasts indicate that Russian oil output will increase...
Construction of Baku - Tbilisi-Jejhan oil pipeline is given start Construction of oil pipeline will begin in spring (by the end of the first quarter of 2003) and will be finished by the end of 2004. The next round of Azeri-Kazakhstan negotiations under the project of the oil pipeline Baku - Tbilisi-Jejhan will be held in February in Kazakhstan.
1240-kilometer trans-Black sea gas pipeline Russia - Turkey known as the "the Blue stream" project, is put into operation. The gas pipeline has started operation on the eve of December 29. Its capacity is designed for annual delivery to Turkey of 16 billion cubic meters of Russian gas.
Construction of a new oil pipeline in the Black sea Joint Russian ? Greek - Bulgarian negotiations concerning the matter of construction of an oil pipeline Burgas - Alexandropolis were conducted with breaks, since 1994, and realization of this project according to the preliminary estimations will cost $500-700 million.
Russia, China to sign major oil deal Russia and China are on the verge of signing a major oil deal that will nearly double trade exchanges between the two sides by 2005, Beijing's new ambassador to Moscow said on Thursday.
The deal between the Russian oil major Yukos, the national pipeline monopoly Transneft and a Chinese energy concern is likely be signed during a visit to Moscow by Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji that begins next week, ambassador Zhang Deguang said.
Russia wants China debt used to finance gas pipe Russia's Finance Ministry and gas giant Gazprom are in consultations with the Chinese authorities on using some Chinese debt to Russia to finance a gas pipeline, Gazprom said on Monday.
``Chinese debt to Russia, including for armaments' supplies, could be used to finance the project,'' Bogdan Budzulyak, a Gazprom management committee member, told reporters.
Pipeline to ease Europe's reliance on North Sea The European Commission on Monday hailed the construction of a 300km oil pipeline in Ukraine as a crucial step in reducing Europe's dependence on North Sea oil.
The pipeline from Odessa to Brody, which was officially opened on Sunday, links up with existing infrastructure to supply Slovakia and central Europe with oil from the Caspian region.
Tanker suspected in fatal hit-and-run could leave Canada if bond posted The Russian operators of an oil tanker implicated in a deadly collision with a U.S. fishing boat want their ship released from Canadian waters as civil lawsuits continue to pile up in the United States and Canada.
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Following the cancellation of South Stream, Russia announced its plans to reroute the pipeline to Turkey, instead of Bulgaria. The new pipeline was dubbed Turkish Stream, with same capacity of South Stream, but less vulnerable to EU competition law.
Turkmenistan's reported decision to cut gas supplies to Iran highlights 2 massive issues: the country's lack of hard cash and the problems of a landlocked producer trying to sell its gas in a buyer's market.
Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan announced that his country was «considering the possibility to transport its natural gas to Europe via the Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) through Turkey.»
Last month, Naftogaz potentially lost $700m/year from the $1.7bn transit revenue it received in 2015 from Gazprom for transiting 64.1 bcm. With the intergovernmental agreement between Russia and Turkey, the 17 bcm/y currently transiting Ukraine for Turkey could well disappear from 2020.
An unlikely coalition is emerging in Germany between Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats and the opposition Greens. Increasingly, leading members of both parties want to stop the construction of a second pipeline that will transport gas directly from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea.
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A popular Russian saying goes, "He who does not take risks does not get to drink champagne." In the case of the Shtokman gas field, the saying may be amended to, "He who does not take risks does not stand to make a fortune at the world's biggest natural gas reservoir."
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