8/2 @KirilPetkov last move before leaving the PM office: refer the Balkan Stream (TurkStream 2) pipeline to Bulgaria's National Security Agency (DANS). Multiple irregularities concerning the project Sofia built for Gazprom.
7/12 Mihajlovic said that NIS has been looking to buy crude oil from available producers now that the Ru oil has been put under sanctions, and that it is going to order crude from Iraq /Serbia had not discussed an ownership change in its sole oil company NIS, in which Ru majors Gazprom Neft & Gazpro
/Around 20-25% of Germany's gas reserves are run by Gazprom, either directly or via joint ventures. At the start of February they were on average only 15.9% full, considerably lower than others. (graphic via @iw_koeln)
1/22 The Grozny court’s ruling granted a request by Chechen prosecutors to cancel the debt on the grounds that its statute of limitations had expired. Prosecutors also warned that the debt “had created social tensions and could provoke protests.””
6/15 Gazprom has resumed talks with South Korea on the construction of a gas pipeline through the territory of North Korea, Deputy CEO Vitaly Markelov told at a press conference. "To date, the political situation has been somewhat different, and the South Korean side has asked Gazprom to resume the
6/14“Should the security situation on the Korean Peninsula improve, we will be able to review the LNG project involving the two Koreas and Russia,” SKorean FM told a regional energy conference at the end of March,/More important, the project has become commercially less attractive to Gazprom.
The project in question was mentioned in a memorandum with the SKorean company Cogas in2008,&has been discussed seriously since2011.〜but negotiations came to a halt due to the deterioration of the situation surrounding NK’s nuclear program.“Today the political situation is somewhat different,
3/1"The Tribunal did not grant Naftogaz's claim for revision of the transit tariff, because Naftogaz's 2009 request for revision did not fulfill the procedural requirements. The Tribunal also did not accept Naftogaz's claims for revision of the transit contract based on European and Ukrainian energy
2/28 At the 2018 Ukrainian Energy Forum in Kyiv, Yuriy Vitrenko, Chief Commercial Officer of Naftogaz Ukraine, has announced that Gazprom has stopped invoicing Naftogaz Ukraine for gas supplies sent to self-proclaimed DPR and LPR, Interfax〜for the entire period of 2017, nor the beginning of 2018.
3/6 Statement by Foreign Affairs Committee Chair, D. McAllister, Chair of Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee, D. Rosati, and EP rapporteur on Ukraine, M. Gahler”
3/5 “"It is in the interest of Germany and the European Union, and of Russia and Ukraine, that both these countries show themselves to be reliable partners in European gas supply and guarantee continuous supplies," Seibert said. ”