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2018-03-14 11:35:00

NORD STREAM NIGHTMARES U.S.

NORD STREAM  NIGHTMARES U.S.

OGJ - A debate about the proposed Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline at the Atlantic Council on Mar. 12 quickly became heated as some participants argued that it would serve a broader Russian political purpose while others said it simply would increase available supplies for European customers. Speakers generally seemed to agree that the US should encourage an effective solution but keep its distance otherwise.

They also suggested that a solution will need to consider what role Ukraine would play as a transit country since its relationship with Russian gas giant Gazprom has continued to deteriorate. "Nord Stream 2 would give Gazprom the technical option to ignore Ukraine. It transmitted 93 bcf through the pipe there—a volume too big for it to ignore," said Vadym Glamazdin, special envoy on government relations at Naftagaz, Ukraine's state gas company.

Sandra Oudkirk, deputy assistant secretary for energy diplomacy at the US Department of State's Bureau of Energy Resources, said Nord Stream 2 matters to the US because it would cement a transportation system in place that could perpetuate dependence on Russian gas for some key US allies. "It would not increase the amount of gas coming into Europe, only replace volumes that now are being transported through Ukraine," she said. "Buying into a massive, expensive undersea project like this only fosters dependence on Gazprom."

Douglas Hengel, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, noted, "I don't think it's unusual for us to talk about energy security and geopolitics. This particularly matters to Central and Eastern European countries. On projects like this, it's hard to separate the commercial and geopolitical aspects. This is part of a Russian plan to weaken Europe's Energy Union, which Germany depends on."

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Earlier:

 W.Europe
2018, March, 11, 11:10:00

ISRAELI GAS FOR EUROPE

REUTERS - Israel expects a decision to go ahead with the construction of a 2,000 kilometer (1,243 mile) pipeline linking vast eastern Mediterranean gas resources to Europe to be made by early 2019, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz told Reuters.

 

 W.Europe
2018, March, 4, 11:25:00

RUSSIAN GAS FOR EUROPE

REUTERS - Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak told European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcofic in a phone conversation that gas transit would not be at risk until Gazprom and Naftogaz fully terminated their agreement.

 

 W.Europe
2018, February, 16, 23:40:00

РОССИЯ ПРОДОЛЖАЕТ РАБОТАТЬ

МИНЭНЕРГО РОССИИ - Комментируя внесение его в «кремлевский список» Минфина США, Александр Новак признался, что вспоминает о нём только из-за постоянных вопросов журналистов. «Мы продолжаем работать. И в принципе нет никаких изменений. Всё как прежде».

 

 W.Europe
2018, February, 12, 07:35:00

GAS SHORTAGE FOR EUROPE

REUTERS - “Europe completely miscalculated when they assumed that they won’t need much additional gas and if they need some it can be supplied from outside Russia,” Medvedev, who looks after exports for the world’s top gas producer and exporter, said.

 W.Europe
2018, January, 31, 10:50:00

GAZPROM SHARE 35%

REUTERS -Speaking at the European Gas Conference in Vienna, Gazprom Chairman Viktor Zubkov said the company’s share of the European gas market, where it generates the majority of its revenue, rose last year to a record high of more than 35 percent, from about 33 percent in 2016.

 

 W.Europe
2018, January, 29, 08:30:00

U.S. WANT RUSSIA'S MARKET SHARE

BLOOMBERG - The expansion of Russia’s gas pipeline to Germany under the Baltic Sea, which bypasses a number of east European nations, will allow the Kremlin to use energy as a “political tool,” U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in Warsaw.

 

 W.Europe
2017, August, 31, 12:15:00

U.S. LNG FOR EUROPE - 4

Last week, U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) made its way to the somewhat unlikely market of Lithuania. The former Soviet republic traditionally bought its gas from Russian state company Gazprom; this was its first shipment from the United States. For President Donald Trump, that must have been a gratifying sign of the success of his administration’s nascent energy diplomacy.

Tags: NORD, STREAM, GAS, RUSSIA, USA, UKRAINE, GAZPROM