Gazprom
„Gazprom” could use the Russian roubles as a means of payment for the gas delivered to CIS countries
March 25, 2008The administration of the Russian Concern „Gazprom” examines the possibility of usage of Russian roubles as a means of payment for the gas delivered to CIS countries, DECA-press Agency transmits. This fact is mentioned in today’s...
Analysis: OMV joins with Gazprom to undercut Nabucco
January 31, 2008Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor On January 25 Austria’s state-dominated OMV energy company and Russia’s Gazprom signed an agreement to turn the Baumgarten gas transmission center near Vienna into a joint venture. Owned 10...
Sakhalin project gets environmental OK
October 10, 2007International consultants gave environmental approval to the Sakhalin II oil and gas project off Russia's Pacific Coast, Russian gas giant Gazprom said. Gazprom said AEA Technology, an independent consultant for potential lenders to the project, reported...
Ukrainian gas to be transferred to Gazprom
October 07, 2007Natural gas to be transferred to Russia's Gazprom will count as $600 million in credit against the more than $1.3 billion debt owed by Ukraine, a report said. The debt was incurred as companies working in Ukraine failed to pay Gazprom for natural...
Analisys: Gazprom threatens to reduce supplies to Ukraine
October 05, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor On October 2 Gazprom warned Ukraine via mass media that it would reduce gas deliveries from November onwfard, unless Ukraine pays $1.3 billion dollar worth of arrears to Gazprom. According to company spokesman...
- September 20, 2007
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso announced in Brussels on September 19 long-awaited legislation aimed at liberalizing the EU's internal energy market by breaking up, or "unbundling," utilities that control both the production...
Analysis: Gazprom takeover in Hungary looms behind possible OMV takeover
July 26, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor Apart from the oil business (see EDM, July 24), Hungary’s gas transmission network is also at stake in the attempted takeover of the national energy company MOL by the Austrian counterpart OMV. And...
Analysis: Gazprom taking over the pipelines in Belarus
May 21, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor On May 18 in Minsk, Russia’s Gazprom and the Belarus government’s State Property Committee signed agreements to turn the Belarus state-owned gas pipeline company Beltransgaz into a Russia-Belarus...
Analysis: Belgium – Gazprom’s next “hub” in Europe?
March 07, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor European Union host country Belgium traditionally has been an advocate of EU integration. But its latest actions illustrate the absence of an EU energy policy and the member countries’ growing tendency...
EU Unswayed By Gazprom Criticism
February 22, 2007The European Commission today brushed off comments by Gazprom Deputy Chairman Aleksandr Medvedev that its plans to break up the EU's energy monopolies are "absurd." Commission spokesman Ferran Tarradellas Espuny today said the moves to split...
