Gazprom
Moldova to pay more for Russian gas in 2010
January 05, 2010Russia s gas giant Gazprom has announced the preliminary price for gas supplied to Moldova in the first quarter of 2010 - 233 dollars per 1,000 square metres of gas. The new price is by about 40 dollars higher compared with the fourth quarter of 2009...
Does declining demand in gas mean the end of Gazprom’s reign?
January 05, 2010By Stacy Closson Just over 18 months ago, Russia was predicting a bright future for Gazprom, stating that its capitalization would exceed $1 trillion by 2015 and its shares would be trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Today, the story is very...
Gazprom dominates Russian political power making
October 08, 2009By Roman Kupchinsky In 2003 a team of Russian foreign policy and energy experts wrote a 70 page memo about the role of Gazprom, the state-owned gas monopoly, in Russia’s domestic politics and the country’s foreign policy strategy. The document...
Gazprom, Turkey Revive and Reconfigure Blue Stream Two
August 11, 2009By Vladimir Socor Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wooed Turkey's AKP government with grandiose vistas of a bilateral partnership on energy during his visit to Ankara (EDM, August 7, 10). Along with his proposal to build Gazprom's South Stream...
EU Warns Member States of New Russian-Ukrainian Gas War
July 08, 2009By Roman Kupchinsky Following a recent telephone conversation between the head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, and the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the commission urged all E.U. member states to immediately begin filling gas...
Azerbaijan-Russia Gas Agreement: a Wakeup Call to EU and US
July 02, 2009By Vladimir Socor Meeting in Baku on June 29, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev witnessed the signing of an agreement on Azerbaijani gas deliveries to Russia. The initial volumes are small, but the agreement...
Gazprom Stays the Course Under Putin's "Manual Management"
June 29, 2009By Pavel K. Baev Russian energy super-giant Gazprom has taken severe blows in the still-deepening recession, and the worst setbacks have happened in its most profitable market - the European Union. Various assessments show that the volume of its export...
Gazprom and Western Companies Compete in Iran
June 03, 2009By Vladimir Socor On May 24 in Tehran, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his counterpart in Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari signed an intergovernmental framework declaration on gas pipeline construction and gas deliveries from Iran to Pakistan. The...
Central Asian Gas: An Opportunity Europe Seems Determined To Miss
May 29, 2009By Ahto Lobjakas If ever there was a time for the European Union to cut the Gordian knot of energy dependence on Russia -- or, more precisely, cut out the Russian middleman currently controlling supply routes from the Caspian Sea region -- it is now...
Russia Rejects Ukraine Gas Proposal, Talks Stall
May 22, 2009Russia has rejected a Ukrainian proposal to defer payment on up to $5 billion in gas storage payments as energy talks between the prime ministers of the ex-Soviet neighbors ended in stalemate. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin dismissed the proposal...