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Russia’s use of companies such as OAO Gazprom, the world’s largest natural gas producer, to buy energy assets in Africa may thwart U.S. efforts to limit the role of oil and gas as political weapons wielded from Moscow.
Getty Images Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (left) and Gazprom chief Alexei Miller visit the Sevmash shipyard in [...]
Gazprom is a busy beaver these days. First Libya, then Iran. This probably falls under the strategic unhelpfulness category.
From the article:
A few days after French oil giant Total withdrew from its planned multi-billion dollar gas investment project in Iran, Russia’s Gazprom is entering the market in a multi-billion-dollar deal.
Gazprom’s Chief Executive Alexei Miller met on [...]
This is example of Russian energy mercantilism. Russia locks up energy resources from other countries and takes it off the world market. Russia gains power at the expense of other countries.
From the article:
OAO Gazprom, Russia’s state- sponsored gas monopoly, is offering to buy all of Libya’s oil and gas exports in a bid to increase [...]
At the height of the Cold War, the West feared the Soviet military. Now, it fears Russian energy companies, and the 800-pound gorilla of them all is Gazprom, Russia’s natural gas monopoly, currently the world’s third-largest company by capitalization.
Having absorbed capitalism with a rapacity that would make Lenin blush, Gazprom does not intend to rest [...]
Since the mid-1990s, leaders of the Caspian Sea littoral states — Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Iran — have repeatedly said that the sea should never become a point of contention between them or a reason for conflict in the international community.
But as energy prices skyrocket, the Caspian Sea Basin — home to some [...]
ON a frigid evening in February, the hottest place to be here was the Kremlin Palace theater. The draw inside the towering hall wasn’t Tina Turner or Deep Purple — rock icons well past their prime — but Gazprom, Russia’s most powerful corporate leviathan, which was celebrating its 15th anniversary.
Gazprom certainly had reason to party: [...]
Russia’s economic power lies in its key natural resources - oil and gas.
Many countries in Eastern Europe depend on Russia for energy, and it supplies about a quarter of the gas used in the European Union.
But the company which runs the gas business - Gazprom - is controversially close to the Russian state.
Critics say it [...]
Russian energy giant Gazprom warned Friday that it could halt natural gas supplies to Ukraine at 10:00 a.m. [7 a.m. GMT] on February 12 over Kiev’s outstanding debt for gas deliveries.
Spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov told RIA Novosti: “The situation must be resolved by Monday. If this does not happen, then on Tuesday we will halt supplies [...]
Even as Russia works to increase Europe’s dependence on it for oil and natural gas shipments, Europe is bickering with Turkey about fees for a pipeline that could be an alternative to the Kremlin option.
Over the past few months, Gazprom has been exceptionally active in the Balkans where the European Union and Russia are competing [...]
Serbian leaders today are expected to sign an agreement in Moscow that critics fear will help cement Russian energy giant Gazprom’s chokehold over critical supply lines for much of Europe.
The deal, to be witnessed by Serbian President Boris Tadic and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, clears the way for Gazprom to acquire a controlling stake in [...]
Serbia is close to a deal with Russia to ensure its supplies of natural gas in exchange for control of NIS, the Balkan state’s dominant oil and gas company, the two sides have confirmed.
Vojislav Kostunica, Serbia’s prime minister, said the benefits from a long-term supply arrangement with Gazprom, the Russian state-controlled gas company, would be [...]
Russia’s state-owned Gazprom is moving to gain access to Nigeria’s gas reserves, considered Africa’s largest.
According to Nigerian officials, Gazprom has already approached energy officials in Abuja about investing in Nigeria’s infrastructure in return for development rights in the country.
“What Gazprom is proposing is mind-boggling,” a Nigerian official told The Financial Times newspaper last week.
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Russian state-owned giant Gazprom said last Thursday that it will begin drilling this year in two blocks off the coast of Venezuela, whose vice president is in Moscow this week to promote expanded economic cooperation between the two countries.
“The firm Zarubezhneftegaz, an affiliate of Gazprom, will begin drilling in the fourth quarter of this year,” [...]
The bullying, blustering bravado of the Iranians should not conceal the truth that Iran is massively vulnerable to international pressure. For example:
* Iran’s decrepit refineries cannot produce enough gasoline for Iranian drivers.
* Iran’s rusting industries, many of them state owned, depend heavily on parts and equipment [...]
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