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Moscow Must Look Elsewhere As Western Oil Companies Quit Russian Projects
As sanctions force Western companies to abandon joint projects in Russia, the country’s energy minister says it’s time for Moscow to replace them with partners that are allowed to follow through with joint ventures.
“If companies in the long-term perspective decide not to participate in the investment projects, we will attract investors from those countries that have not imposed sanctions targeting our oil and gas companies,” Alexander Novak said Nov. 22 at a student energy forum in Moscow.
Already, the US oil company ExxonMobil, France’s Total and the Anglo-Dutch Royal Dutch Shell have withdrawn from joint ventures with Russian oil companies in the Arctic and Siberia. The Western energy giants cited the US and European Union sanctions imposed over Russia’s suspected role in the fighting in Ukraine.
Related: Russia In Weak Position For New Gas Deal With China
Novak said such withdrawals point to a kind of uncertainty for Russia’s energy sector, because the Western companies joined in the projects willingly and ended their work only because of the sanctions. The measures deprive Russian oil projects of oil technology and equipment as well as Western financing for energy initiatives.
“On the one hand [Western] companies would like to continue their work [in Russia], on the other hand, their regulators do not allow them to do so,” he told the forum. “This uncertainty should be overcome.”
Novak added, “If [Western] companies decide for themselves not to take part in organizing investment projects in the long term, we will invite investors from countries which have not imposed sanctions against us and our oil and gas companies.”
As part of this effort, Alexei Ulyukayev, Russia’s economic development minister, said Nov. 8 that three of his country's largest energy companies, Rosneft, Lukoil and Gazprom, may list their stock shares in Asian currencies on the Hong Kong Stock exchange to encourage financial support from the East.
Related: APEC 2014: Russia Tries To Leave Europe Behind
Some Western energy companies are still working in Russia. Rosneft, for example, is working with Norway’s state-owned Statoil in the Sea of Okhotsk off eastern Russia and in the Barents Sea off western Russia. They’ve also begun projects for heavy oil in the region of Samara in Western Russia. And Gazprom is working with Shell in the Priobskoye and Palyanovskaya fields in western Siberia.
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Nevertheless, the Western sanctions have hit Russia hard. It is the world’s largest exporter of oil and natural gas, and relies on this income for about half of Moscow’s budget. One way to protect the budget would be to reduce oil production in an effort to boost prices. Novak said Nov. 21 that a production cut was being considered, but there’s been no final decision.
But reducing production would be difficult if not harmful to Russia’s oil sector, in large part because the climate in most of the country’s oil fields is so cold that stopping production at some wells would freeze them up. And Russia can’t keep harvesting oil, then storing it to keep it off the market, because it has very little storage capacity.
By Andy Tully of Oilprice.com
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We were attacked by Afganistan, Ukrain, and Georgia - countries of the former soviet union never attacked Russia.
Iraq with Saddam had a pufferfish strategy giving clues that they had chemical weapons of mass destruction through the moving around of 40 foot tankers that were supposedly carrying chemical weapons. It was a ploy, but we did not know it.
After 911 we had to take him seriously. It was a mistake. It was an error. He did not have these weapons. At one point would he pursue them, yes. But that is one day. Not when we invaded. It was a mistake. But it was based on fears from signals of tankers he moved around and intelligence that was in error.
AND WE NEVER INTENDED ON TAKING OVER EITHER IRAQ OR AFGANISTAN. CAN THE SAME BE SAID OF RUSSIA IN REGARDS TO GEORGIA AND UKRAIN.
OF COURSE NOT.
Russia has done, and is doing, everything it can to destabilize and take over Ukrain like it did Georgia. And everyone in the world can see that and knows it. It is as clear as black and white.
It doesn't take god to decide what is black and white.
Don't worry, you will have a chance to decide what is black and white.
You will get a first hand chance to decide if your economy is white, black or grey in the coming years thanks to your faithful leader.
For sure we would not see any American soldier in Iraq if this country produces not oil but cucumber and potato!
What's about Kosovo?! There was Washington behind Kosovo precedent!
military bases does Pentagon have outside U.S.? Do you know haw many bases does Russia hav outside Russia?! Who did destroy Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan? Who did
bomb Belgrad? Was it Russia? No! It was Washington!..
So it has smthg to do not to God but Devil!
If one were to buy into your assertions, the answer is yes, they are God.
bu U.S. Joe Biden has told to media U.S. had to press heavily the European countries to join these sanctions...
I wonder Who did give to Washington the rights to decide what is bad and what is good. Look, U.S. army
destroyed Afghanistan, Iraq, Lybia. Thanks to wrong American strategy we witness dramatic destabilisation of the ME and born ISIL.
I think it would be much more clever to unite the countries to impose sanctions agains U.S.: they invent they own rules and ask all countries to meet them. Remember Kosovo: there was not referendum there to separate from Serbia, but Washington pressed European countries to recognize Kosovo precedent. There was referendum in Krimea, 95% of its population woted for the reunification with Russia. Washington did not like this and we see the sanctions against Russia.
So, I repeat my question: Who did give to Americans the rights to decide what is white and what is black?
Are they God?