Oil & Gas

Russia Offers India 1 pct Stake in Rosneft

Russia has offered India a one percent equity stake worth $1 billion in state-controlled oil firm Rosneft, the Financial Express said in an unsourced report on Tuesday.

Popularity: 10% [?]

May 8, 2007

Blast Hits Russia-EU Gas Pipeline

An explosion in Ukraine on Monday knocked out of service one of the main pipelines exporting Russian natural gas to the European Union, but was not expected to affect supplies, officials said.

Popularity: 12% [?]

Rosneft Buys Its Own Shares for $7.6 Billion

On Tuesday, March 27, a subsidiary of the state-controlled Russian oil company Rosneft a 9.44-percent stake in Rosneft that had been owned by the bankrupt oil giant Yukos at an auction.

Popularity: 7% [?]

March 27, 2007

Russia to Sign Energy and Metals Deals in Africa

Russia hopes for a package of energy and metals deals with African states, a ministry statement said on Friday, March 16, as a government delegation left for South Africa, Angola and Namibia. Some Russian firms however deny having any such plans.

Popularity: 14% [?]

March 19, 2007

Chevron Investing One Billion in Russia’s Gazprom

U.S. oil major Chevron is in the process of making a “billion-dollar scale investment” into Gazprom Neft, the oil unit of Russian gas giant Gazprom, a U.S. government official said on Wednesday.

Popularity: 6% [?]

March 14, 2007

Russian Gas Specialists Wounded in Algerian Bomb Attack

One Russian citizen was killed and another injured in a bomb explosion in Algeria, Russia’s foreign ministry said Sunday.

Popularity: 13% [?]

March 4, 2007

Gazprom to Ask for Loan from EBRD

Gazprom, the majority shareholder in the Sakhalin-2 gas project in Russia’s Far East, will ask for a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to finance the project, according to reports in the Russian press.

Popularity: 6% [?]

February 28, 2007

Russia Sets Deadline for Shell’s Sakhalin Project Repairs

Russia has set a deadline of February 1 for Shell’s Sakhalin-2 project to repair environmental damage or face the loss of its operating licences, the RIA Novosti news agency reported citing a Russian federal agency.

Popularity: 8% [?]

December 13, 2006

Shell Project in Russia Scrutinized

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Russian prosecutors have uncovered more than 100 violations of environmental, labor and migration law at a giant oil and liquefied natural gas project run by Royal Dutch Shell PLC on the Russian island of Sakhalin, according to an report Wednesday.

Popularity: 8% [?]

December 6, 2006

Russia Raises 2006 Growth Forecast

US Trade Representative Susan Schwab (L) and Russian Trade and Economic Development Minister German Gref (R) shake hands after signing a bilateral agreement that paves the way for Moscow to join the World Trade Organization (WTO)

Russia’s Economy Ministry increased its forecast for 2006 economic growth to 6.8 percent, faster than its initial forecast for 6.6 percent, citing rapid expansions in consumer and investment spending, according to Bloomberg reports.

Popularity: 4% [?]

December 5, 2006
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  5. Russia Sets Deadline for Shell's Sakhalin Project Repairs
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  7. Gazprom to Ask for Loan from EBRD
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