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Kyiv reacts warily to Gazprom-Naftohaz merger plan
May 12, 2010By Pavel Korduban Ukraine wary of Putin’s proposal to merge national gas companies The Ukrainian government and opposition alike have reacted coolly to Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin’s, April 30 proposal to merge the two countries...
Silvio Berlusconi and Vladimir Putin discuss energy deals
April 27, 2010By Sabina Castelfranco Italian and Russian leaders discuss energy deals. Gazprom and Italy's Eni cooperating in South Stream natural gas pipeline project, due to come online in 2015 Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Russian Prime Minister...
Moldova considers to close power plant due to high price of Russian gas
April 20, 2010The Chisinau heating/power station CET-2 will be closed, if the gas tariff increase by 14%, its Director Alexandr Comarov declared in the course of debates in the connection of Moldovagaz's demand to raise the gas tariffs in the connection with the gas...
Ukrainian government examines Belarusian gas trade model with Russia
April 02, 2010By Vladimir Socor Ukraine’s newly elected President, Viktor Yanukovych, and the new government clamored for low-priced Russian gas from their first day in office. As an opening gambit they called for a price similar to that paid by Belarus; or...
Italy’s ENI seeks Nabucco life-belt for Gazprom’s sinking South Stream
March 17, 2010By Vladimir Socor Italy’s ENI chief executive, Paolo Scaroni, has proposed unifying the Gazprom-led South Stream with the European Union-backed Nabucco pipeline project. The Italian state-controlled energy conglomerate ENI is the key technological...
Russian energy expansion hits a slowdown
March 03, 2010BySergei Blagov Against the background of difficult international energy market conditions Russian companies have become less interested in finding new oil and gas fields and developing existing deposits. Notably, the country’s gas monopoly Gazprom...
Moldova cut volume of gas bought from Russian Gazprom in 2009
March 01, 2010Moldova (without the Transnistrian region) bought 1.126,3 million cubic metres of gas from the Russian concern Gazprom in 2009, which is by 8.2 per cent less against 2008, according to a report by the National Agency for Regulation of Energy (ANRE). ...
Moscow targets BP assets in eastern Siberia
February 22, 2010By Vladimir Socor Russian authorities threaten BP assets at Kovykta project Russia’s Natural Environment Inspectorate (RosPrirodNadzor) has recommended that BP’s joint venture in Russia, TNK-BP, be stripped of the giant Kovykta natural gas...
Gazprom discusses Romanian participation in South Stream
February 21, 2010By Vladimir Socor Gazprom playing with poor options on South Stream in the Black Sea On February 17 in Bucharest, Gazprom Vice-President Aleksandr Medvedev conferred with Romanian officials on a range of bilateral projects. Medvedev hinted at possible...
Moldova says Russia hikes gas price by 20 percent
January 06, 2010Moldovan Economy Minister Valeriu Lazar says Russia's Gazprom raised the natural gas price for Moldova by more than 20 percent on January 1, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. The new price, which is valid for the first quarter of the year, is reportedly...