The U.S. administration is actively taking part in several gas projects in order to crate a new gas pipeline infrastructure in Europe that will serve as alternative to Russian gas supplies, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried said on Thursday, March 15.
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March 17, 2007Macedonian governmental delegation will be heading for Russia today for a working visit aimed at settling the Russian clearing debt to Macedonia.
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March 14, 2007U.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.
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Russia’s environmental and technological watchdog has launched a routine probe into the Kharyaga oil field operated by France’s Total in northern Russia, the agency said on Tuesday, March 13.
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Russian state-controlled energy companies Gazprom and Transneft could set up their own security services with similar powers to the police under draft legislation disclosed by the AFP news agency on Monday.
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March 6, 2007One Russian citizen was killed and another injured in a bomb explosion in Algeria, Russia’s foreign ministry said Sunday.
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March 4, 2007President Vladimir Putin said Friday that a storage facility for Russian natural gas could be built in Belgium to make it a hub for gas exports to Europe, AP news agency reports.
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March 3, 2007Gazprom, 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.
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February 28, 2007The assets of Russia’s Yukos oil company will be sold at an auction on March 27.
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February 23, 2007The deal will boost Lukoil’s international retail sales by roughly 20 percent. Lukoil CEO Vagit Alekperov was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying the deal is worth more than $400 million.
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