Energy giant Gazprom is reportedly ready to boost supplies of natural gas to Europe in a bid to help ease rising gas prices in the continent. Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Sergeyevich Peskov was cited by Interfax news agency as saying that state-owned energy firm Gazprom is interested in more European …
Read More »EU Ministers Unveil Plan to Weaken Russian Grip on Gas Supply
Europe’s energy ministers have joined forces to establish a plan that will reduce their dependence on foreign gas and purchase supplies as a bloc as part of a larger effort to combat Russia’s stake in the highly-coveted resource. The plan is to purchase strategic gas reserves as a bloc with …
Read More »Russia Meets all Contractual Commitments to Gas Consumers in EU
Russia fulfills all of its obligations towards gas consumers in the European Union and it is impossible to increase gas transit before gas is sold under a contract, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. Peskov commented on the statement Amos Hochstein, US State Department’s Senior Advisor for Energy Security …
Read More »Gazprom Rejects Gas Transit Increase as Europe Faces Winter Fuel Crisis
Russian gas giant Gazprom has turned down an option to maximize gas shipments to Europe as the continent faces a looming energy crisis amid surging natural gas prices. Gazprom did not book any of the additional capacity available in transit pipelines running through Ukraine in auctions for October, the state-run …
Read More »Is Gazprom about to Lose Its Natural Gas Export Monopoly?
The long-awaited Nord Stream 2 (NS2) pipeline is arguably the world’s most contentious energy project. While its completion was uncertain for a long time, favorable political, economic, and environmental developments have worked in its favor. Recently, Gazprom, the owner and operator of the pipeline, announced its completion. However, legal challenges …
Read More »Russia has Gas Reserves for more than a Century
Russia’s natural gas reserves will last for more than a century, Alexey Miller, chairman of the board of gas giant Gazprom, said on Friday. “Gas reserves in Russia, Gazprom’s gas reserves are the largest in the world. And we won’t have any problems with our reserves for the next 100 …
Read More »European Parliament Calls for Investigation against Gazprom Due to Gas Prices
A group of around 40 deputies of the European Parliament has submitted a letter to the European Commission (EC) urging it to investigate from the viewpoint of the EU’s antimonopoly norms Gazprom’s actions that allegedly pushed gas prices up to a record level in Europe, a source in the European …
Read More »China Shows Stunning Potential for Gas Demand Growth
Gas consumption in China is growing faster than in any other country of the Asia-Pacific region, Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller said on Friday. He was speaking at the 24th annual general meeting of the International Business Congress, which took place on September 14-17 in a mixed format. “The Chinese market …
Read More »Nord Stream 2 Lifts Chinese Shares, as Firms Set to Benefit from Major Pipeline
The completion of the Nord Stream 2, an undersea natural gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea that will greatly improve Russia’s capacity to transport gas to Germany, continued to drive up share prices of some Chinese energy companies on Tuesday, as some analysts said that companies investing in the Yamal …
Read More »Gazprom Completes Construction of €9.5bn Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline
Gazprom announced that it has fully completed the construction of the €9.5bn Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which is designed to transport Russian natural gas to the European Union through the Baltic Sea. Nord Stream 2, the pipeline holding company, will now carry out the necessary pre-commissioning activities with an …
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