Industry Developments

Turkmenistan's newly appointed oil and gas minister Annaguly Deryaev has announced that the country's total gas output for 2008 is now estimated at 50bn cubic metres (bcm), significantly... 2008-11-21

The Ukrainian government has issued a second resolution confirming its unilateral withdrawal from a production sharing agreement (PSA) with US explorer

Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom has said it is considering US majors ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips as potential partners in its giant Yamal liquefied natural gas (LNG) development... 2008-11-19

Russia's state-controlled Gazprom has announced that it will build a gas pipeline directly to South Ossetia, a breakaway region within neighbouring Georgia, according to Reuters.... 2008-11-18

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned that if Europe keeps delaying the construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, Russia may scrap the project and instead build liquefied... 2008-11-13

German oil and gas company Wintershall and Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom have announced that the Achimgaz project is expected to produce nearly 1bn cubic metres (bcm)... 2008-11-12

Poland's liquid fuel logistics operator, Operator Logistyczny Paliw Płynnych (OLPP), has said it plans to complete construction of a diesel pipeline from Belarus by 2010.

Following Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service's (FAS) decision on November 7 to approve India's state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's (ONGC) bid to buy UK-listed Imperial... 2008-11-10

The government of Kazakhstan is considering cutting crude oil export tariffs by 34% in a move to boost the profit margins of domestic producers. Energy minister Sauat Mynbayev told... 2008-11-10

On November 3, Kazakhstan started supplying oil to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, according to the pipeline's operator BP.