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Turkey: The King of the Pipes In less than a month, Turkey struck key energy deals with the European Union and Russia that will substantially increase its key role as a transit hub for oil and gas, fuelling concern in Brussels The Kazakhstan Oil Rush  Last week in Astana the members of the Kazakhstan parliament once again expressed their disappointment with foreign investors, preferring to bring in the republic shirts and aluminium trays with a price tag of several thousand Oil price hike helps Burgas-Alexandroupolis The Bourgas-Alexadroupolis oil pipeline will move forward regardless if oil prices rise or fall since the project is needed as an alternative for increased oil exports from Russia and the Caspian that will further burden Shell wraps up last major gas well on Sakhalin II  Royal Dutch Shell is completing the last major offshore gas well at the Lunskoye platform in Russia’s sub-Arctic Sea of Okhotsk preparing the way for full production capacity of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at Sakhalin Shell wraps up last major gas well on Sakhalin II  Royal Dutch Shell is completing the last major offshore gas well at the Lunskoye platform in Russia’s sub-Arctic Sea of Okhotsk preparing the way for full production capacity of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at Sakhalin Russia-Ukraine gas feud: something’s gotta give  Ever since the January Ukrainian-Russian gas agreements reached by Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow one-on-one, a second chapter fall-out of the European gas crisis has been imminent.
“We have been Nord Stream: A glimmer of hope in EU-Russia dark  As EU-Russian relations near an alltime low, the construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Germany is the one positive example in cooperation between Europe and Russia, Konstantin Simonov, the general director Kazakh companies shut out of oil project boom The Kazakhstan government has set a course to eliminate discrimination when dealing with domestic manufacturers. However, the lion’s share of investment into the republic’s oil projects continues to flow to foreign producers. Kazakhstan’s oil industry Russia, Bulgaria deal for South Stream seen in May  Russia and Bulgaria appeared to bo thridge differences over Sofia’s participation in a Moscow-backed pipeline project to bring gas to Europe and plan to sign a final deal in May. Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev US reiterates support for Nabucco Washington supports the Nabucco gas pipeline, but it is just one project and not the only answer to energy security, Ambassador Richard L. Morningstar, Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Nord Stream faces more obstacles Estonian researchers challenged the thoroughness of an environmental survey in the Gulf of Finland for the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline. A member of the Nature Conservation Committee of the Academy of Sciences, Ivar Puura, Russia-Ukraine gas crisis? What crisis?  Russian energy monopoly Gazprom agreed to waive fines on Ukraine for its failure to meet its obligated gas purchases under its current contract. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko met with her Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin Moscow faces no limits in upgrading Ukraine’s gas network, says Russian energy minister  Russia and Ukraine are currently preparing an intergovernmental agreement in the gas sector and have reached an agreement that Russian companies will participate in the upgrading of Ukraine’s gas transportation system, Russia’s Energy Minister Sergey Mystery of Kazakhstan’s bigest private oil producer In the purchase by Kazakh national company KazMunaiGas (KMG) and China National Petroleum Corporation CNPC of 100 percent stock of the largest private oil producing company Mangistaumunaigas (MMG,) the most desired asset - the Pavlodar Georgia inks White Stream pipeline MOU Georgian Energy Minister Alexander Khetaguri and White Stream Pipeline Company Limited Chairman Roberto Pirani signed a cooperation memorandum on April 3 for the planned White Stream pipeline under the Black Sea to Europe. Involvement in IEA downgrades again Worse-than-expected prospects for the world economy has prompted the International Energy Agency (IEA) to again revise downward global oil demand for 2009. In its Monthly Oil Report, issued in Paris, the IEA said that “after Moscow, Beijing seal oil-for-loan deal China and Russia on April 21 signed an oil cooperation deal involving the supply of Russia oil in return for record loan of USD 25 billion from China. Chinese Vice Prime Minister Wang Qishan and Kazakhstan, China plan Caspian shelf agreements, says ambassador  Kazakhstan and China are expected to sign a number of important agreements on new joint oil and gas projects, including at the Caspian shelf, during the forthcoming official visit of Nursultan Nazarbayev to Beijing in Medvedev discusses Nord Stream in Finland Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on April 20 expressed his support for a planned underwater Baltic Sea gas pipeline during a two-day state visit to neighbouring Finland. The Russian head of state and his wife were Germany fines companies for price fixing German authorities fined two propane companies a total of 41.4 million Euro on April 15 for price-fixing, saying they colluded to stop customers obtaining cheaper prices. Westfalen AG and Propan Rheingas GmbH & Co KG supply |
EU-Russia energy game EU budget: Naming and Shaming of Member States allowing fraud A message for Turkey: tear down Cyprus’ wall now! India says global warming is not to blame for Himalayan glacier melt A misled Merkel takes a swipe at GM over its Opel U-turn Lesbian Bisexual Gay and Transexual (LBGT) organisations across Europe cooperate under the umbrella of the International Lesbian and Gay Association This coming Thursday evening, November 19 during the “Last Supper,” the 27 heads of the EU Member States will decide The end of World War II found the United Kingdom winners, but literally bankrupt. The After months of networking, secret briefings, it seems that the candidates for the Council President In a meeting in Washington with the current Swedish Presidency of the European Union, US President Barack Obama said that As the United States and NATO have urged European countries to take a bigger role Europe must step up its efforts in Afghanistan if it wants to avoid straining relations Six months after they met in London and established a $1.1 trillion-dollar support package for As the first top British diplomat to visit Moscow in recent five years, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband wrapped up Despite French carmaker Renault’s earlier statement that it will not invest any more money in The United States and Russia on 9 November began another round of talks over nuclear Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the government will continue to adopt measures to better The worldwide economic recession has had European Union businesses keenly eyeing China for continuing markets, and the EU’s Chamber of Showing there is still some major differences between the European Union and China in areas Just as the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China passed |
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