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Who is Compromising “South Stream” in Europe?
The third and fourth sections of Russia’s “South Stream” will be completed by 2018. However, supranational structures in Brussels and their representatives in Berlin still cannot set forth a...
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Rosneft to form joint venture with PdVSA
Venezuela’s state-owned oil and gas company PdVSA and Russian state oil company Rosneft have signed documents to form a joint venture, Petrovictoria. PdVSA will own 60% of Petrovictoria while Rosneft...
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Moscow gains momentum as a regional financial hub
Russia has been consistently implementing the top priority national economic project to develop Moscow as an International Financial Center (MIFC), writes Alexander Yakovenko, Russia’s Ambasssador to...
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Temelín: strategic growth project for Russian-Czech Relations
Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas arrived in Russia on a four-day working visit late May, 2013. Trade and energy policy are among the topical issues for Prague and Moscow – 6% increase in turnover is...
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Geopolitics of gas and the Syrian crisis
Analysis of Qatar’s role in Syrian conflict in the context of the Middle East natural gas market by Dmitry Minin (Strategic Culture Foundation): In the apt expression of F. William Engdahl, «Natural...
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Kirkenes Declaration 2.0 presented during the Barents Summit
Top government officials from the Barents region called for improved east-west transportation, sustainable resource development and cooperation in addressing the effects of climate change at the...
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Kudankulam sees green light, some problems remain unsolved
Kudankulam is a nuclear power plant constructed by the Russian company Rosatom in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Construction process has been challenged by civil unrest and ridiculous new...
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Russian ambassador: “Nuclear power is India’s future”
Russian Ambassador Alexander Kadakin said that nuclear power is the future of energy for India. Mr. Kadakin argued that even if India somehow acquired global oil output, it wouldn’t prove sufficient...
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Large shale oil reserves to be developed in West Siberia
Russia has 74.6 billion barrels of technically recoverable shale oil resources, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its report. Now Russian oil producers are importing modern drilling...
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Russia’s Arctic, NATO and Norway: a post-Kirkenes political landscape
Recent NATO’s decision to denounce plans of direct Arctic presence sends a positive signal to all littoral states including Russia, a major regional stakeholder among non-members of the Alliance....
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Gas exporting countries to gather in Moscow for influential forum
Members of the influential Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) will gather in Moscow 1-2 July 2013. Long-term contracts and infrastructure projects are reported to be high on the agenda. The GECF is...
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Fracking FAQ
Q: What is exactly the “shale bubble”? Will shale gas production dramatically change the situation on the global natural gas market? A: Hydraulic fracturing is a relatively old technology which was...
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US-EU spy scandal challenges transatlantic trade talks
Snowden’s revelations have put a deep freeze on US-EU relations. Diplomats in Europe are searching for bugs in their embassies. Influential politicians speak about this unprecedented betrayal of the...
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Nabucco West suspension opens the way for South Stream
The BP/Statoil-led energy consortium that operates the giant offshore Shah Deniz field denied Azerbaijan’s natural gas to the Nabucco West pipeline. BP was not the first investor to flee the project....
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Interview with Dr. Christof Lehmann, editor-in-chief of independent on-line...
We are happy to publish our exclusive interview with Dr. Christof Lehmann, editor-in-chief of nsnbc international. In 2011 he began writing articles to contribute to breaking what he perceives as “The...
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US shale myths and European market reality
Many US shale companies that have been beating the drums of shale “revolution” are now facing oil and gas well depletion. In February 2013 the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) warned that...
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Russia to develop nuclear energy in BRICS countries
Recent news on Fukushima leaks once again sparks public concern about nuclear security. System failure of Fukushima’s reactor built by Westinghouse-Toshiba (US-Japan) did a lot of harm to the image of...
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US push for Syria invasion meets strong inner opposition
Barack Obama’s comments on Syrian chemical dossier are so cryptic and unclear that even hardliners in Europe feel more and more confused. It becomes more and more apparent that “humanitarian” invasion,...
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Fitch: Russian natural gas export opens Eastern horizons
Real alternative to EU exports is born during recent talks in Moscow. Representatives of Chinese National Petroleum Company and Russia’s oil & gas giants Gazprom and Novatek have inked the...
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US Senators attack Russian banks
Some time ago Washington was eager to start a war against Syria under the excuse of Damascus being behind a chemical weapons attack against civilians. Now irrefutable facts have appeared to prove the...
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