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The volumes of gas pumped from Ukraine will be reduced due to new and upcoming pipelines, lessening the value of Ukraine's gas transport system, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said. Speaking to Russian newspaper Izvestia, President Yanukovych said that the recently opened Nord Stream...
The deputy CEO of Ukrainian gas company Naftogaz, Vadym Chuprun, has said that Ukraine needs guarantees from Russia and the EU for gas transit and gas volumes supplied to the country from Russia. In a press release issued on Naftogaz's website, Mr. Chuprun said that Ukraine could not ensure the security...
South Stream has announced an altered route for the project which will see the pipeline run to northern Italy, rather than Austria as originally planned. The route will run from the Black Sea to Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary and Slovenia and then to Italy. Gas pipeline branches are planned to be connected...
Gazprom Deputy Chairman Alexander Medvedev has said Turkey will give the OK for the South Stream pipeline project, which will transport Russian natural gas to Europe by passing through Turkish territorial waters, by the end of the year. Speaking to reporters in Moscow on Tuesday, Medvedev said extensive...
The Russian Minister for Energy Sergei Shmatko has said that the European Commission and Russia will meet in early 2012 to discuss possible changes to the Third Energy Package. Russia has publicly stated its objections to certain aspects of the package, particularly in relation to pricing and the separation...
Speaking in a session entitled Where will Europe get its gas? The Market’s View of the ‘Drivers of Supply’ at the European Autumn Gas Conference in Paris, France, Secretary General of The Energy Charter Secretariat, Ambassador Andre Mernier offered his organization’s views on...
Serbia may start construction on its portion of the South Stream pipeline by the end of 2011, according to the general director of the state-owned gas company Srbijagas. Speaking at an energy conference, Dusan Bajatovic told delegates that country could begin construction on the pipeline in the...
Just when Moscow thought it had sealed the Southern corridor through the nascent South Stream pipeline, BP has thrown a serious spanner in the works. For Brussels, BP's plan to build its own pipeline from Azerbaijan might even be more upsetting. Matthew Hulbert writes of this new twist in the Southern...
Alexei Khaitun, Doctor of Economics and head of the Institute of Europe’s Center of Energy Policy discusses why the Russian led Nord Stream and South Stream pipeline projects are driven not by profit, but to maintain the dependence of its neighbors on Russian gas and pipelines. Watch the Inter...
Facing the loss of significant revenues from gas transit, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is now pitching a land route for the South Stream pipeline project that is intended to bypass Ukraine. "We are proposing to our partners in Europe and Russia a flexible approach to the modernization of the...
