In 2012 Ukraine is planning to increase its own gas production by 5%  — to reach 21 billion cubic meters, the Minister of Energy and Coal Mining of Ukraine Yuriy Boiko. “We are going to improve out legislation, raise or technical level and invite the leading companies…which means implementing the set of actions which will […]

Uzbekistan stopped all deliveries of natural gas to Tajikistan without any warning, the Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. In this connection the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov received a letter from the head of Tajikistan Emomalii Rahmon. A month and a half ago Uztransgaz raised the price on gas exported to Tajikistan. Gas price […]

The South Stream project is to be implemented in accordance with the scheduled terms. The first commercial gas deliveries to Europe will start at the end of 2015. This was announced to the journalists by Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller.

The government of Ukraine considers it possible to adopt the state budget for 2012 with the maximum possible target price and in case of reaching the agreement with Russia on the price reduction – to insert an amendment into the document, the prime-minister Nickolay Azarov told the journalists. At the same time he did not […]

According to the information from Nail Gafarov, the deputy head of the Gas, Gas Condensate and Oil Production Department of OAO Gazprom, this year the company is planning to produce more than 510 billion cubic meters of gas. Next year – 528 billion cubic meters of gas. Last year the gas production in the company […]

It is obvious that in 2011 Russia is going to cede the leading position in gas production to the USA again. According too the published information in the first 9 months of 2011 Russia produced 490.5 billion cubic meters of gas while the “USA — 505.4 billion cubic meters. According to the information from the […]

Mykola Azarov, the prime-minster of Ukraine who is paying a working visit to Astana on November 23 and 24 is ready to discuss with the authorities of Kazakhstan the issues of natural gas production and its transportation from the Central Asia as well as the ratification of a treaty on the Free Market Zone creation. […]

The second line of the Nord Stream gas carried can be commissioned earlier than the scheduled data. This was declared by the prime-minister of Russia Vladimir Putin on November 16 in the course of the meeting with German businessmen. “We have already done half of the route for the second line. Most likely, the project […]

On October 7 and 8 Dmitry Medvedev is to visit Germany. The visit is to take place at the invitation of the President of Germany Christian Wulff. According to the Kremlin press-service, the head of the state together with the Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, the prime-minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte and the prime-minister of […]

OAO Kurganskiy Chemical Machinery Building Plant (Kurganhimmash) signed the contract with the national holding company Uzbekneftegaz on delivering petrochemical equipment for the modernization of Mubarekskiy gas processing plant in the Kashkadaryinskaya region in the south of Uzbekistan. The cost of the equipment ordered from Kurganhimmash is 12.5 million American dollars. This was reported by the […]