A senior executive at Russian state-controlled gas giant Gazprom has warned that the opening of the EU energy market to competition and political problems with Poland were forcing the company to look increasingly towards markets in Asia, the AFX News reports.
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November 28, 2006
One of Russia’s most respected cultural custodians yesterday urged gas giant OAO Gazprom to drop its plans to build a 300-metre-high skyscraper in St. Petersburg’s historic centre.
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The Russian gas company NOVATEK and Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) on Monday signed two memorandums of understanding.
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Poisoned former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko, who died in a London hospital last week, had visited Israel lately to hand over a dossier investigating Russian energy giant Yukos case, The Times reported on Monday quoting a former Yukos owner.
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November 27, 2006The media holding of Russia’s state-controlled gas monopoly, Gazprom, plans to buy the country’s most widely read newspaper, “Komsomolskaya Pravda.”
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November 22, 2006Russian organized crime police confiscated documents from an environmental regulatory agency Wednesday, but denied the search was connected with the agency’s ongoing probes at a Royal Dutch Shell PLC-led development or other energy projects, AP reports.
Russian news agencies quoted the Interior Ministry’s organized crime department as saying that documents had been confiscated at Rosprirodnadzor in connection with an investigation into the Yuzhno-Tambeisk gas field, where state-controlled gas monopoly OAO Gazprom is in a dispute with a local company over licensing.
“Since Rosprirodnadzor issues the licenses to gas deposits, documents that formed the grounds for issuing the license were confiscated as part of a criminal case,†the Interfax news agency quoted a police spokesman as saying. “The main thing is that the inquiry is not being directed against Rosprirodnadzor itself.â€
Rosprirodnadzor’s deputy chief Oleg Mitvol told AP that officers were taking documents pertaining to business trips made by two of the agency’s employees.
“So far they are doing everything in line with the law,†he said.
Mitvol has overseen a series of high profile probes at Shell’s Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas project and fields held by OAO Lukoil and OAO Rosneft — Russia’s No. 1 and No. 3 oil producers respectively.
Environmental pressure at the Shell development has been interpreted by analysts as a drive to reshape the deal in the Kremlin’s favor, though Russian officials vehemently deny this.
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October 18, 2006
Russia’s state-controlled natural gas monopoly Gazprom has started building the West Siberia-China pipeline in the Altai region, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday, Oct. 17.
The agency quoted Altai government official as saying that Gazprom will invest 2 billion rubles to build supporting public utilities for the pipeline within five years.
The pipeline link is part of an $11 billion Gazprom program involving two gas pipelines supplying China with 80 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually.
A western pipeline, linking the western Siberian gas reserves to the Xinjiang region, where it will link up with China’s west-east pipeline, will cover 2,800 kilometers and have a designed production capacity of 30 billion cubic meters a year.
A second, eastern pipeline will connect to Heilongjiang province would be supplied from Sakhalin Island.
The pipelines are due to be operational by 2011.
In March, Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corp, parent of PetroChina signed a memorandum on gas supplies during President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China.
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Russia says it plans to sell weapons in exchange for oil and gas, a Russian news agency reported.
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February 9, 2005
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