Natural Gas
11 countries in Central, Southeastern Europe hold energy summit
March 03, 2010By Vladimir Socor Hungary hosts region-wide summit on energy security The prime ministers of eleven countries in Central and Southeastern Europe met on February 24 in Budapest, for the first Energy Security Summit in this region. Hungary initiated...
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...
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...
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...
Ukrainian Government fears a new winter gas crisis
January 04, 2010By Roman Kupchinsky Ukrainian Government Fears a New Winter Gas Crisis In December Ukrainian officials descended on Washington with one overriding mission –to convince the Obama administration that without the financial help of the IMF, Ukraine...
Kremlin renews its focus on the contest for Turkmen gas
January 04, 2010By Vladimir Socor Russia Resuming Gas Imports From Turkmenistan on a Small Scale On December 22 in Ashgabat, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his counterpart in Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov witnessed the signing of documents on the...
Moldova to negotiate $500 million loan terms with Russia in Moscow
July 01, 2009In the nearest future, a delegation from the Moldovan Ministry of Finance will go to Moscow to negotiate the terms of the US$500-million Russian credit for this republic, it was said at the meeting Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin had with Russian...
Moscow Playing with Multiple Options on Black Sea Pipelines
May 29, 2009By Vladimir Socor On May 17 in Sochi the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyp Erdogan concluded a deal on natural gas. Putin and Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller promised to proceed with the Blue Stream Two gas pipeline...
Ukraine’s Naftogaz cut off gas supplies to the Balkans
January 07, 2009On Tuesday, January 6, the Ukrainian state company Naftogaz cut off natural gas supplies to Moldova that was transiting via Southern Moldova to the Balkans. On January 1, Russian gas monopoly Gazprom cut off gas supplies to Ukraine in a dispute over debts...
