Life Gets More Difficult For Gazprom
October 14th, 2013
Via Bit Tooth Energy, a detailed look at Gazprom: There was a time, not that long ago, when if I was short of a topic for a post, I could Google “Gazprom” and there was sure to be a story out there about another expansion, or take over of a national pipeline – or some […]
Read more »Kyrgyzstan: Future Economic Colony Of Russian Gazprom And China?
August 18th, 2013
Via the Emerging Markets blog, an interesting report on Kyrgyzstan: The sale of Kyrgyzgaz company for a symbolic price of US $1 to Russian gas monopoly Gazprom OAO has been finalized and may represent a landmark of a new type of Russification of Kyrgyzstan. This new deal followed the one related to the military base […]
Read more »Gazprom Takes A Fall
May 9th, 2013
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting article on Gazprom: After years as Eurasia’s energy bully, Russia’s state-controlled natural gas monopoly, Gazprom, is getting a taste of its own medicine. Even as Gazprom seeks to build the tallest skyscraper in Europe as its new headquarters in St. Petersburg, pressure from Russia’s neighbors led to a 15 percent […]
Read more »Gazprom: Russia’s Pipe Nightmare?
March 26th, 2013
Courtesy of The Economist, a detailed look at Gazprom: THE good times for Gazprom once seemed like they would never end. The world’s largest natural-gas producer, founded out of the old Soviet gas ministry, enjoyed sky-high gas prices for years. The gas flowed along pipelines into Europe; the profits flowed back. Gazprom began work on […]
Read more »Is Gazprom’s Position Weakening?
September 5th, 2012
Via STRATFOR (subscription required), a very interesting two-part analysis of the challenges building up against Gazprom both internally in Russia and externally as well: State-owned Gazprom currently accounts for more than 80 percent of Russia’s natural gas production. Moreover, the company has a monopoly on natural gas distribution (via pipeline or liquefied natural gas) and exports […]
Read more »Gazprom’s Recent Gas Pains
October 8th, 2011
Via Robert Amsterdam, an interesting article on Gazprom’s travails as of late: Russian gas monopoly Gazprom has had a rather hard time of it recently, with a series of raids on their European offices. The company cannot have been too happy with Turkey’s decision, announced on Monday, that it would not be renewing a 25-year […]
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