2019

“It really is a great irony that at a time when the United States became the world’s biggest producer and has become a great exporter, that investors have become skeptical and have adopted a position of ‘show me the money,’”

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has a 20%stake in the plant some 60 miles (100 km) southeast of Lagos.

Brent settled up 81 cents, or 1.22%, at $67.20 a barrel, WTI settled up 59 cents, or 0.97%, at $61.11 a barrel.

Министр рассказал, что в 2019 году были достигнуты исторические цифры по добыче нефти, газа, по выработке электроэнергии, установлены очередные национальные рекорды. Ожидается, что добыча нефти по итогам года составит порядка 560 млн тонн, газа – 737 млрд кубических метров, угля – 437 млн тонн, выработка электроэнергии прогнозируется на уровне 1,102 трлн кВт.ч.

“Of course we will finish building (the pipeline)... Gazprom has alternative options for how to lay it. It will take a little more time, but that’s no big deal,” Medvedev told journalists, adding that it could take a couple more months.

Gazprom is showing that the strategy chosen for 2020 -- and potentially over the longer term -- is to defend its market share in Europe by flooding the Continent with cheap gas, send alternative sources of supply, in particular LNG, out of the money, traders told

Общий объем привлекаемого финансирования — 11,4 млрд евро. Средства предоставляют 22 европейских, азиатских и российских банка. Заемщиком выступает «Газпром переработка Благовещенск».

Spending an estimated Eur66 billion on the three projects, Gazprom clearly saw money as being no object to achieving its goals -- be they economic, geopolitical or both.

Было отмечено, что одной из основных тенденций 2019 года стало продолжение роста потребления природного газа в мире.

This was supposed to be a breakout year for US LNG export projects getting commercially sanctioned. But with 2019 wrapping up, just two new export terminals and an additional train at an existing facility made it over the line to construction.