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• LNG Brings Russia And China Closer

  Published 15 April 2017 | viewed 10,470 times

  Since 2001, Russian-Chinese relations have been largely grounded in security issues, both military and economic. The former is a shared perception of an increasingly aggressive…

• Moldova Picks Ukraine Over Russia In New Energy Deal

  Published 08 April 2017 | viewed 20,103 times

  Ukraine’s DTEK Trading, owned by Rinat Akhmetov, and Moldova’s state-owned intermediary, Energocom, signed a one-year contract, on April 1, for the supply of electricity to…

• Sanctions Not Slowing Russian Arctic Ambitions

  Published 02 April 2017 | viewed 11,986 times

  The director of the Russian transport ministry’s Department of Maritime and River Transportation, Vitalii Klyuyev, spoke, on March 24, at the “LNG [liquefied natural gas]…

• Tensions Grow In The Southern Gas Corridor

  Published 01 April 2017 | viewed 14,859 times

  Europe’s longest running conflict was reactivated in Karabakh on February 25, with cease-fire violations along the line of contact. The skirmishes lasted a few days…

• Russia Looks At Greece As Gas Gateway To Europe

  Published 06 February 2017 | viewed 15,556 times

  The Greek private limited company Gastrade, owned by the Greek conglomerate Coupelouzos Group, has been licensed to develop a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU),…

• Can The TAP Pipeline Survive The Italian Referendum Results?

  Published 19 December 2016 | viewed 8,236 times

  On December 4, a referendum in Italy rejected the sweeping constitutional reforms proposed by the government, ultimately resulting in the resignation of Matteo Renzi from…

• Can Israeli Natural Gas Reach Europe?

  Published 03 December 2016 | viewed 18,493 times

  Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Dan Stav, announced, on November 6, that his country was “considering the possibility to transport its natural gas to Europe via…

• The Niger Delta Oil Wars Are Unlikely To End Soon

  Published 22 October 2016 | viewed 13,758 times

  The Nigerian government announced in August that it had resumed amnesty payments to former militants in the Niger Delta, many of them members of the…

• The Oil Crash Nightmare For Kazakhstan

  Published 16 October 2016 | viewed 16,714 times

  The latest meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Algeria, on September 28, brought some relief to producers, with the price of…

• Post Coup: Gazprom Still Eager To Complete Turkish Stream

  Published 05 August 2016 | viewed 15,917 times

  On June 27, Russian President Vladimir Putin received a letter from President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, expressing Turkey’s willingness to restore ties with Russia…

• NATO Energy Security Threatened By Karabakh Conflict

  Published 28 May 2016 | viewed 10,723 times

  The periodic escalation of violence in and around the separatist Azerbaijani territory of Karabakh routinely raises concerns about this conflict’s threat to regional energy security…

• Former Dagestan Deputy Prime Minister Imprisoned Over Energy Scandal

  Published 14 May 2016 | viewed 5,969 times

  At the start of May, an unusual trial concluded in Dagestan. Regional authorities charged the republic’s former deputy prime minister, Magomedgusen Nasrutdinov, with fraud and…

• New Energy Project Tightens Russia’s Grip On The South Caucasus

  Published 25 April 2016 | viewed 4,663 times

  On April 13, the energy ministers of Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Iran met in the Armenian capital of Yerevan, where they agreed to create a…

• Turkmenistan Diversifies Its Gas Exports To Reduce Reliance On China

  Published 11 April 2016 | viewed 14,929 times

  In January 2016, the Russian media reported that Russia’s gas giant, Gazprom, had discontinued all purchases of natural gas from Turkmenistan and was not planning…

• Russia Remains Set On South Stream Pipeline Project

  Published 24 March 2016 | viewed 18,901 times

  When Moscow abruptly terminated the South Stream natural gas pipeline project in December 2014 (see EDM, December 17, 2014), that decision left all of Russia’s…

• The Political Consequences Of Iran And Azerbaijan’s Energy Agreements

  Published 10 March 2016 | viewed 10,664 times

  On February 23, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev visited Tehran, where he met with his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani. Notably, the two presidents signed 11 memoranda…

• Gas Takes Prominent Role In Azerbaijan’s Energy Plans

  Published 07 March 2016 | viewed 4,868 times

  On February 23, Azerbaijan’s parliament adopted amendments to the state budget to adjust down expected budget revenues based on oil price estimates of as low…

• Chechen Oil Takeover May Be The Start Of Russian Power Devolution

  Published 23 February 2016 | viewed 11,543 times

  Chechnya is gearing up to establish control over its oil-extracting business. The procedure for handing over the Rosneft affiliate Chechenneftekhimprom to the Chechen authorities is…

• Gazprom Ups Pressure On Georgia With New Gas Transit Deal

  Published 28 January 2016 | viewed 4,623 times

  The Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Energy of Georgia, Kakha Kaladze, and a top official at the Russian energy giant Gazprom, Yelena Burmistrova, failed…

• Russia Fights To Maintain Energy Dominance In The Caucasus

  Published 23 January 2016 | viewed 6,820 times

  Tbilisi and Moscow’s negotiations over the expansion of Russian Gazprom’s share of the Georgian energy market heightened the political fever in the country over the…