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Pipelineistan: Francesco Rossi's blog.: 2011.11

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Entrerà in funzione oggi, martedì 8 novembre, North Stream, la pipeline che porterà il gas russo in Germania attraverso il Baltico. Dmitrij Medvedev e Angela Merkel hanno “accolto” quel gas in Germania, a Lubmin, girando il rubinetto che gli ha aperto la rete europea. Iscriviti a: Post (Atom). Welcome, then, to Pipelineistan! Whether we like it or not, in good times and bad, it's a reasonable bet that we're all going to be Pipeline tourists. So, go with the flow. Pepe Escobar, 2009.

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Pipelineistan: Francesco Rossi's blog.: 2012.04

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BOYKOS COME AND GO". (I Boyko vanno e vengono). Russia has reiterated its determination to construct the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline and reduce the price tag of the project, following Bulgaria's withdrawal. This was confirmed by Trans-Balkan Pipeline consortium advisory board member Mikhail Barkov, as cited by RIA Oreanda-News. Russia will insist on executing the Burgas-Alexandroupolis project given minimization of costs on it, Barkov said. The government said it is quitting the project as not ec...

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Pipelineistan: Francesco Rossi's blog.: 2011.12

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KAZAKH OIL WORKERS PROTEST.(Gli operai del settore petrolifero kazako protestano). Holding signs with the slogan, “Don’t Shoot the People,” hundreds of oil workers in the city of Aktau in western Kazakhstan protested today against a recent police crackdown on striking workers, the New York Times reported. Clashes with police on Dec. 16 and Dec. 17 caused the deaths of at least 14 striking workers and wounded dozens more. According to the New York Times:. Interior Minister Kalmukhambet Kasymov said the po...

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Pipelineistan: Francesco Rossi's blog.: GO EAST!

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Gazprom, Russia's state gas provider, has been told to speed up exploration activities in the far east of the Federation. Chief executive Alexey Miller told a high-level meeting that the Eastern Gas Programme, covering Siberia, needed to pick up speed. The Sakhalin, Yakutia and Irkutsk gas production centers were all identified as locations for renewed effort. The commercial reserves of the Eastern Gas Programme (EGP) at estimated at 5.2 trillion cubic meters (tcm). Iscriviti a: Commenti sul post (Atom).

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Pipelineistan: Francesco Rossi's blog.: THE STREAM OF COSTS.

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THE STREAM OF COSTS. Russian gas giant OAO Gazprom said it would invest 509.6 billion Russian rubles ($16.89 billion) expanding its pipelines to take gas to southeastern Europe via the South Stream link, piling further costs onto a project aimed at bypassing traditional transit countries Ukraine and Belarus. The offshore and European sections of the pipeline are forecast to cost €16 billion ($21.53 billion). Analysts have long criticized Gazprom for perceived overspending on pipeline projects. Gazprom an...

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Pipelineistan: Francesco Rossi's blog.: THERE MUST BE GAS. (Ci deve essere gas)

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THERE MUST BE GAS. (Ci deve essere gas). Poland’s hopes of hitting a shale gas bonanza have suffered a blow as ExxonMobil ended exploration for the unconventional fuel after tests failed to find gas in commercial quantities. The US oil major said there had been “no demonstrated sustained commercial hydrocarbon flow rates” in two test wells in eastern Poland and added that it had “completed its exploration operations in Poland”. Waldemar Pawlak, Poland’s economy minister, suggested that ExxonMobil b...

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Pipelineistan: Francesco Rossi's blog.: 2012.02

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INTERNAL MARKET FIRST. (Prima il mercato interno). Gazprom said on Saturday it could not pump additional gas to Western Europe amid a cold snap, after EU officials and energy firms said the Russian giant's deliveries had dropped in several states. Gazprom at the moment cannot satisfy the additional volumes that our Western European partners are requesting," the company's deputy chairman Alexander Kruglov said at a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, according to Russian news agencies. But a spoke...

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Pipelineistan: Francesco Rossi's blog.: 2012.12

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Ussia's Gazprom said construction would begin this week on the underwater section of its South Stream pipeline, which will carry natural gas beneath the Black Sea and into the European Union. But is this really the case? Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller announced last month that the final investment decision for the project had been reached. Miller attended a groundbreaking ceremony near the town of Anapa on Russia's Black Sea coast on December 7. We have no concrete information that, indeed, the final investm...